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COVENTRY, ENGLAND - AUGUST 06: (L-R) Silver medalist Madison Parks of Team Canada, Gold medalist Miesinnei Mercy Genesis of Team Nigeria and Bronze medalist Pooja Gehlot of Team India celebrate on the podium following the Women's Wrestling Freestyle 50 kg medal ceremony on day nine of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at Coventry Arena on August 06, 2022 on the Coventry, England. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria secure more medals in wrestling, para athletics

August 7, 2022

Odunayo Adekuoroye claimed the first gold medal for Nigeria in the wrestling event of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Commonwealth Games: Rotimi Akeredolu congratulates wrestling gold medalist

August 6, 2022

Odunayo Adekuoroye claimed the first gold medal for Nigeria in the wrestling event of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye claims first Commonwealth Games wrestling gold

August 5, 2022

Harry Maguire has explained why he opted to join United over City when making a record-breaking £80 million ($113m) move to Manchester in the summer of 2019.

Gareth Southgate defends Harry Maguire from Roy Keane criticism

November 13, 2021

Nigeria Wrestling Federation President, Daniel Igali has sought after the consent of the sports minister Sunday Dare to be a member of the Bureau of the united world wrestling.

Daniel Igali speaks about succession plan for incoming wrestling federation boss

August 25, 2021

At the ceremony held at the Government House, Yenagoa, Governor Douye Diri announced a reward of One Million Naira for each of the 25 registered players while N500, 000 was the reward to each of the unregistered players.

Bayelsa splashes cash on Bayelsa United, Bayelsa Queens, Blessing Oborududu

August 17, 2021

Neeraj Chopra of India celebrates with his national flag after winning gold · Reuters - Aleksandra Szmigiel

Tokyo Olympics: India showers cash on golden boy Chopra

August 8, 2021

Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr Sunday Dare has charged APC Youth to avail themselves of the various opportunities created by government to develop themselves to guarantee the future.

Nigerian government to pay medical bills of four athletes

August 7, 2021

Blessing Oborududu and Ese Brume have both been presented with cash rewards for their respective medal-winning feats at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. The presentation was done by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare.

Tokyo Olympics: Ese Brume, Blessing Oborududu get cash reward for medals

August 4, 2021

Silver medallist Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria poses with her medal · Reuters - Leah Millis

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria to reward gold medalists with $15,000

August 4, 2021

Tamyra Marianna Mensah Stock of the United States in action against Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria · Reuters - Leah Millis

Tokyo Olympics: Nigerian government triples prize money for medalists

August 3, 2021

Former Olympian and Wrestling boss, Daniel Igali, has urged former Nigerian athletes to engage themselves in the sports officiating business.

Tokyo Olympics: We need more Nigerians to officiate at international level – Daniel Igali

July 26, 2021

India’s two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar will be catching all the action at the Tokyo Games from inside the jail where he is incarcerated on charges of kidnap and murder.

Two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar to watch Games from jail

July 23, 2021

Guinea pulls out of Tokyo 2020 Olympics

July 22, 2021

Charles Oliveira, right, a veteran of the UFC since 2010, won the lightweight belt Saturday night in his first title shot. Josh Hedges-Zuffa LLC

Charles Oliveira knocks out Michael Chandler to win UFC lightweight belt

May 16, 2021