IDPs Given Hope of a Better Future with a Football Outreach

To commemorate the UN day on sports for peace and development, players from the diplomatic community played a football match with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Abuja.

Seven Key Expectations for Nigerian Sports in 2016

With the appointment of a new minister of sports in Solomon Dalung, so many people have gotten a bit excited by some of the pronouncements made by the red-beret wearing man from Plateau state. And there are now great expectations by some concerning the fortune of Nigerian sports this year.
They include:

Rio 2016: AFN Announces Jan. 2 as Camping Date for Athletes

The Secretary-General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Olumide Baminduro on Wednesday announced that athletes would resume camping ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics on Jan. 2. Baminduro told newsmen in Abuja that the board of AFN had decided to change the plan in order to achieve podium success at the Games.