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Barcelona forward Neymar has broken the Olympic fastest goal scoring record at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The Brazilian captain on Wednesday netted against Honduras in the semi final 15 seconds after the match started. Brazil went on to beat Honduras 6 - 0 to qualify for the final, Neymar...

Nigeria is set for a showdown with Germany to battle for the qualification ticket to the final of the men's football competition at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The match will start by 8pm Nigerian time. Here are the key match stats about the clash: 1. Both teams have lost just one match in...

Three Nigerian players have been given the all clear by FIFA ahead of Nigeria’s semi final game against Germany, after it was confirmed that the cautioned they picked up against Denmark has been wiped out. The trio of Muenfuh Sincere, Usman Muhammed and team captain Mikel Obi had their...

The Nigerian U-23 team will today lock horns with their German counterparts at the semi final stage of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Here are details of the match: Nigeria U-23 team Date: Wednesday 17th August 2016. Time: 16:00 local Brazilian time Nigerian Time: 8pm, August 17th Venue...

The United States of America is still in a comfortable lead at the 2016 Rio Olympics with 77 medals in total. Great Britain, China, and Russia occupies the second, third and fourth positions respectively. Meanwhile, Nigeria is yet to win a medal at the Olympics. See top 10 countries below...

Chelsea player and Nigeria's Olympics team captain, John Obi Mikel he does not want to return to Chelsea, his club, without an Olympic Games gold medal. Mikel, one of the three overage players vowed to delay his return to his English Premier League side after helping Nigeria to reach men’s...

The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil have been on for over a week now but, beyond the outrage among Nigerians regarding the perceived maltreatment of the country’s athletes, the Olympic spirit has been tepid so far. Their anger at the government was visible when sprinter Regina George resorted...

Former Nigeria skipper Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha has warned the country’s Olympic team in Rio they cannot become rich simply by playing for Nigeria. He advise the players to look beyond match bonuses and focus on representing the country well to pave way for a meaningful professional career...

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the Nigerian dream team for making it into the Semi-finals of the Rio Olympics. In a statement issued by the Presidency, the President urged the team to "Go for gold". He said, “Again and again, the unconquerable Nigerian spirit has come to the fore...

Ethiopian distance runner, Almaz Ayana, 24, who broke a 23-year old world record for the 10,000m race by over 14 seconds at the Rio Olympics 2016 has spoken about her victory. When asked how she did it, she said, ''Three things. Number one, did my training. Number two, I praise the Lord, he...

To avert the rumoured boycott by the Dream Team IV of their quarter-final match against Denmark, officials of the sports ministry are now making frantic efforts to pay their allowances. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Rio de Janeiro that top officials of the sports ministry...

Head coach of Nigeria’s U-23 team, Samson Siasia, has said that he is in full support of his players’ plan to boycott their quarter-final clash against Denmark on Saturday, because of unpaid allowances. Siasia lashed out at the “disrespectful” authorities and says he will stand by his...

A Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home from the 2016 Olympic Games at Rio in Brazil, after posing as an athlete and giving a urine sample. Kenyan team officials said sprint coach John Anzrah “presented himself’’ as 800 metres medal hope Ferguson Rotich and “even signed the documents’’...

In some other countries of the world, a bronze medal at the Olympics is not something to be talked about or celebrated. Not even silver is satisfactory sometimes, just remember that look on Russian athlete Yulia Efimova’s face as her arch-rival, Lilly King of the United States took the gold in...

In yet another fresh scandal, Chelsea star Mikel Obi has had to dole out $4,000 to ensure the Nigeria Olympic team caught their flight to Salvador after the hotel in Sao Paulo held the entire team to ransom over the bills incurred by additional officials. AfricanFootball.com’s source close...

As the track and field events of the Rio 2016 Olympics begin today, Nigerian athletes have cried out about lack of equipment and proper clothing to weather the storm. Over all Nigerian athletes have poor dressers at the Games. And as driving rains and cold winds sweep through Rio athletes...

Samson Siasia, the Dream Team IV coach, admitted that some five major changes to his original team line up, failed to stop the Colombians from running away with a 0-2 defeat to his team. He spoke at a news conference after the Group B match, played at the Corinthians Arena Stadium, Sao...

John Mikel Obi, captain of Dream Team VI and the Olympic contingent, is yet to overcome his absence from the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Speaking with London Evening Standard, Mikel recalled how the flight delay with the Nigerian soccer team saw him miss the perfect...

More trouble is hitting the camp of the U-23 national football team with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF joining in distracting the team with orders allegedly coming from the Secretary General, Dr Mohammed Sanusi. A reliable source in the team’s camp disclosed to Vanguard yesterday that...

Preparations for the 2016 Olympics started right from the end of the London outing in 2012. Because of the disastrous outing at the last Games in London, a concerned government put up a machinery to begin early preparation and ensure that a repeat of the woeful outing four years ago is avoided...