Nigerian striker Asisat Oshoala (pictured above) was voted the Most Valuable Player/Best Player at the 2014 FIFA U20 World Cup in Canada. She was awarded the Golden Ball award and Golden Boot having scored seven goals and provided two assists.
French midfielder Griedge Mbock-Bathy was awarded the Silver Ball while her...Gist and Gossip
Hollywood actress, Uzoamaka Nwaneka Aduba, who stars in the hit series 'Orange Is The New black' picked up an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards which held on Saturday August 16th at the Nokia Theatre in L.AAfter picking her award, an elated Uzo said "I'm stuffed. I'm beyond...
Well, Nigerians certainly know how to jump.
The Nigerian trio of Tyron Atkins, Alex Al-Ameen and Martins Ogierakhi won all the available medals in the 110m hurdles at the ongoing 2014 African Athletics Championship in Morocco.
Atkins won gold with a time of 13.57 seconds, with Al-Ameen coming in behind him at 13.78...
Nigeria’s 2014 Commonwealth Games hero, Blessing Okagbare, continued her fine form into the 2014 African Athletics Championship.
Okagbare set a new tournament record as she won gold medal in the 100m event with 11:00 seconds.
Okagbare’s Ivorian rival, Murielle Ahoure, finished in second place with a time of 11.03...
After all the intimidation and arrests, the Chief Returning Officer for Osun election, Prof. Bamitale Omole, has declared Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola return elected as the governor of the State of Osun.
Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. To emerge winner of the...
On Thursday, the US Justice Department said that it has won legal control of nearly a half-billion dollars worth of corrupt gains hidden in banks by late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.
A court judgement on Wednesday gave the US title to more than $480million that Abacha and his associates embezzled and secured in accounts...
Star athlete Blessing Okagbare couldn’t participate in the women’s long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but compatriot Ese Brume made sure the gold came home still.
Brume’s 6.56m leap ensured Nigeria’s 1st gold medal at the event in 14 years, with Okagbare also winning the 200m finals.
England’s Jazmin...
ABUJA (NAN) ― Maryam Usman on Wednesday won the women’s +75 kg gold to take Team Nigeria to the top of the weightlifting medals table at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Usman scored 125 in snatch and155 in clean and jerk for a total of 280 at the Clyde Auditorium, leaving Samoa’s Ele Opeloge to the...
Sprinter Blessing Okagbare has won the gold medal for Nigeria at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Okagbare won the 100m females final with a time of 10.85 seconds.
Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart filled the next two steps on the podium with England’s Asha Phillip taking...
Weightlifter Chika Amalaha won Nigeria its first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on Friday.
The petit female weightlifter pulled a total of 196 points in snatch and clean and jerk in the 53kg class, to beat the stiff opposition from England and India weightlifters, who picked the silver and...
Congrats to Isah.
At the 18th session of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA) held on Friday 18th July 2014, a Nigerian male contestant Sulaiman Abdulkarim Isahwon the top honour in the international Quran completion category of the award.
The award comes with a prize money of AED250,000 – which is equivalent...