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Rosemary Chukwuma of Team Nigeria runs towards the finish line to go on to win the gold medal in the Women’s 4 x 100m Relay – Final at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. (Photo by AFP)
Athletics

Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria clinch women’s relay gold

August 7, 2022
World record holder, Tobi Amusan has yet set another Games record as she ran 12.30s to defend her Commonwealth gold award on Sunday.
Athletics

Commonwealth Games: Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan sets new 100 metres hurdles record

August 7, 2022
Favour Ofili won Team Nigeria’s 30th medal at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games after claiming second position in the women’s 100m final.
Football

Commonwealth Games: Favour Ofili secures silver medal for Nigeria

August 7, 2022
The Jamaican High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Esmond St. Reid, says his country is keen on strengthening ties with Nigeria in health, tourism, culture, trade, and business development sectors among others.
Nigeria

Jamaica pledges to strengthen ties with Nigeria

August 6, 2022
Jamaican retired sprinter, Usain Bolt has congratulated Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, who smashed the world record in the Women’s 100 metres hurdles, to win gold at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.
Athletics

Usain Bolt salutes record breaker Tobi Amusan

July 25, 2022
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan walked away with a cheque of $100,000 for breaking the World record in the women’s 100m hurdles event in Eugene, Oregon.
Athletics

World Athletics Championships: Tobi Amusan gets $100,000 for breaking world record

July 25, 2022
African and Commonwealth Champions, Tobi Amusan, became the first Nigerian athlete to win a World Athletics Championship gold after she set a new World record in the Women’s 100m Hurdles at the World Championship in Oregon, USA.
Athletics

Oregon 2022: World Record is a bonus – Tobi Amusan

July 25, 2022
The United States reclaimed their women’s world 4x100m relay crown in Eugene on Saturday, overpowering a star-studded Jamaica line-up to take gold in Oregon.
Athletics

USA win women’s world 4x100m relay gold

July 24, 2022
Record label and showbiz Executive, Kenny Keke Ogungbe has expressed reasons for throwing his weight behind StarTimes Nigeria’s reality TV show, Naija Star Search.
Photo

Kenny Ogungbe: Why I’m involved in Naija Star Search

July 18, 2022
Raheem Sterling has confirmed his Manchester City departure and said he was leaving the club as “a man”.
Technology

Raheem Sterling confirms Man City departure before Chelsea move

July 13, 2022
Apart from the Tobi Amusan who was touted as one of the possible medal hopefuls in the women’s 100m hurdles, another Nigerian Favour Ofili has been tipped as a medal contender in the women’s 200m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 in the United States.
Athletics

Oregon 2022: Favour Ofili listed among medal contenders in 200m

July 13, 2022
Amber Alerts are an important tool in helping locate abducted children. They’re authorized by law enforcement and broadcast via TVs, text messages, and other means.
Social

Instagram puts Amber Alerts in feed to help find abducted children

June 1, 2022
A Lagos based real estate merchant and former House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Abidemi Rufai, popularly known as ‘Ruffy’ has been arrested in the United State for his scheme to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department.
Nigeria

Ogun governor’s ex-aide pleads guilty to $350,000 fraud in US

May 4, 2022
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson greets the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, at the Intercontinental Hotel in London
Africa

Rwanda denies ‘trading people’ allegation on UK asylum deal

April 22, 2022
British champion boxer Tyson Fury attends a press conference for his WBC heavyweight championship fight against challenger US boxer Deontay Wilder, October 6, 2021 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada ahead of their October 9, 2021 fight. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Boxing

Tyson Fury’s legacy on the line in front of record British boxing crowd

April 22, 2022
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