Edo state

High jumper Mike Edwards claimed a second successive title in his event on Day 3 of the Nigerian World Championships/Commonwealth Games Trials, clearing a Season’s Best (SB) of 2.20m to win the Gold medal in Benin, Edo State. Edwards’…

Fresh from her record-breaking feat at the Wanda Diamond League in Paris where she ran a new African Record of 12.41s in the 100m Hurdles, Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan continued her record-breaking spree as she set a new Championship Record…

Team Nigeria's 4x100m relay men's team are through to the World Athletics Championships in Oregon next month after running an impressive 38.34 seconds, their Season's Best (SB) at the Nigerian Athletics Championships holding in Benin City,…

All is now set for what would be a "Championship of Stars" in Nigeria as top athletes are set to storm Benin City in Edo State to jostle for qualification to represent the nation at the World Athletics Championship, and the Commonwealth…

A staff of Micheal Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies in Ilorin (MINILS), Abubakar Sodiq Yahaya, has bagged a medal for completing in the 8th Okpekpe International 10km road race in a time of 54 minutes on Saturday in Edo State,…

Ethiopia emerged winners of the men and women’s categories of the Okpekpe 10km Road Race after Jasin Hadi (29.05) and Anchinaiu Dessie outran their Kenyan challengers to claim victory for the third time in eight editions of the competition.…

World Athletics has revealed that the next elite label road race on its calendar will hold on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Okpekpe, Edo State, Nigeria. The event in Okpekpe, the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race, is coming after the…

The Edo State Primary Health Care Development Agency has announced the rescheduling of the second round of oral polio vaccination for children between the ages of 0 to 59 months which was earlier slated for May 7, would now hold between May…

Nigeria’s national under-20 women's football team, the Falconets, booked its place at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica after a 4-1 victory against Senegal at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, on Saturday. The…

Athletes from various parts of Nigeria will converge at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, Edo State, for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria's (AFN) All Comers Meet on Sunday. The All Comers competition is the first of many the…