Lucky Oritseweyinmi Daje has won the men’s 60 meters race event at the 2026 Gamecock Indoor Opener, winning in a time of 6.76 seconds.
He finished ahead of his South Carolina teammate Antwan Hughes Jr. who ran 6.86 seconds and Terryn Patterson-Bryant in 6.87 seconds.
Esther Joseph powers to a big Personal Best of 23.11 seconds to win the women’s 200 meters race event at the 2026 Clemson Opener, moving into top 10 all-time on the African Indoor All-time list.
She beat Aniyah Kitt who ran 23.37 seconds and Sanaa Frederick in 23.38 seconds. Joseph ran a Tennessee School Record of 37.01 seconds in December (2025).
Blessing Ogundiran makes a big debut for Warner University, powering to a new personal best and school record of 7.25 seconds to win the women’s 60 meters race event at the 2026 Jimmy Carnes Invitational in Florida.
She took down the School Record of 7.43 seconds set by Nicole Johnson in 2024 and was very well clear of her second-placed teammate Jahhi Clarke-Broomfield who ran 7.65 seconds.
Nigeria’s senior men’s team also known as the Yellow Greens have defeated Rwanda by 40 runs to lift the 2025 West Africa Trophy Cricket tournament (second edition) for the second time at the Moshood Abiola National stadium, Abuja.
Team Nigeria made history at the 2025 Africa Basketball Festival (ABF) by clinching their first-ever title after defeating Ghana, Liberia, and China.
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Right to Smile FA, O&A Sports Academy, and Wazbak Queens were crowned champions at the seventh edition of the Cohesion Football Tournament, which concluded after two days of pulsating grassroots football action on December 17, and December 18, 2025, at the Union Bank Stable, Surulere, Lagos.
Timothy Daniel: Military impunity wastes another life By Punch Editorial Board on January 11, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 13
IN the early hours of January 1, as fireworks lit the skies and families across Nigeria ushered in the New Year with hope and prayers, Timothy Daniel, 13, lay lifeless on the ground in Ete community in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
His blood and brains splattered onto the ground, courtesy of a single, cold-blooded bullet to the head from a soldier’s rifle.