Mikel Obi once narrated how Antonio Conte froze him out of the Chelsea squad after he went on to represent Nigeria at the Rio ...

Nojim Maiyegun, the nation’s first Olympic Games medalist, passed away on Monday in Vienna, Austria largely forgotten by the ...

Mariam Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria became the first African athlete to win a badminton medal at a Games - Olympics or ...

Nojim Maiyegun, the first Nigerian to medal in the Olympics, winning bronze at light middleweight in the 1964 Tokyo Games, has died at the age of 83 in Vienna, Austria, The Punch reported.

The athletes need not be blamed for the unfortunate outcomes but the sports administrators for their fabled incompetence.

Nigeria’s first-ever Olympics medalist, Nojim Maiyegun, has been reported dead. This was disclosed late Monday by an ...

Africa’s largest youth population went home 'medal-less' at the recent Olympic Games, a situation that hindered the country from ...

Badminton player, Eniola Bolajii, has won the first medal for Nigeria, at the ongoing Paralympics event in Paris, France.

Special Olympics Nigeria (SO Nigeria) has concluded the ESPN Unified Sports Program in three Osun State communities: Ilesa, Ife, and Osogbo.

Twenty current and former Yale athletes represented the Blue and White across four different sports: rowing, sailing, ...

In a stark reminder of how Nigeria often neglects its sporting heroes, Nojim Maiyegun, the country’s first Olympic medalist, ...