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Brazil’s football team is doing so poorly at the Olympics that people are looking to the heavens for salvation. Gods – from Afro-Brazilian rites known as Candomble, Umbanda and Macumba – are being invoked. Helio Sillman, a follower of the Afro-Brazilian rites, staged a Macumba ritual to...

Alhough they are through to the quarter final stage of the competition, Nigeria’s Dream Team VI will play to honour the country today in the final group stage match. The U-23 who defeated Japan and Sweden in the other group stage matches who already qualify top of Group B will be aiming for...

Members of the Nigeria Olympic football team said they have accepted the apology of the Youth and Sports Development Minister, Solomon Dalung for their traumatizing experience in Atlanta, USA. However, they said Dalung never visited the team in Atlanta where he reportedly asked team captain...

For the past few days, Chierika Ukogu has been on the lips of Nigerian Sport enthusiasts for her incredible exploits at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Here is a look at 10 things you should know about the Nigerian rower: 1. Chierika Ukogu, fondly called ‘Coco’ was born on October 2, 1992. 2...

At least three Nigerian athletes in the ongoing Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games created records of sorts that will be cherished in a longtime to come. The trio with records are two table tennis stars, Segun Toriola and Aruna Quadri as well as Rower, Chierika Ukogu. The 41 year-old Toriola had his...

The action is on and the usual suspects are not letting their countries down. The ‘underdogs’ as well has been excellent at the 2016 Rio summer Olympics. Countries Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. USA 5 7 8 20 2. China 5...

A Brazilian women’s rugby sevens player Isadora Cerullo, 25, has become the first athlete to receive. After the medal ceremony following the first women’s rugby sevens final in Olympic history on Monday had ended, Marjorie Enya, Cerullo’s girlfriend and a manager at Deodoro Stadium, asked her...

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri became the first African to reach the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games table tennis event on Monday after beating London 2012 bronze medalist Germany’s Timo Boll 4-2 in the fourth round of the men’s singles. The 28-year-old defeated the world number 13 in 16 minutes...

Head coach of Nigeria’s U-23 team, Samson Siasia, was ready to step down from his role after the 1-0 win over Sweden on Monday morning, but for the intervention of captain, Mikel John Obi. A top source in the team told AfricanFootball.com: “Siasia wanted to quit his post after the win over...

Solomon Dalung, minister of youth and sports, has apologised to players and officials of the country’s Olympic football team for the circumstances that led to the contingent’s late arrival in Brazil. Dalung, a conspicuous presence in the stands as the 1996 champions pipped Europe’s best team...

The International Paralympic Committee on Sunday banned Russia from participating in the upcoming 2016 Paralympic Games for allegedly violating international doping rules. During his announcement in Rio de Janeiro, International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven put the blame...

A lone goal scored by Sadiq Umar was enough to qualify Nigeria’s Dream Team VI at the men’s football events of the 2016 Rio Olympics. However, there was another highlight to the game as Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, who is presently in Rio to watch the games, is...

Three-time doubles gold medalists Venus and Serena Williams have lost their first-ever Olympics doubles match. The tennis champions have won gold in the doubles matches at London 2012, Beijing's 2008 Games and at Sydney's Olympics in 2000. They were favorites to take home their fourth gold...

Nigerian egos were bruised during Thursday’s match against Japan in the Men’s Football Event of the 2016 Olympic Games when a wrong national anthem was played. The Eagles looked confused when the strange tune came up over the Amazon Arena's public address system in Manaus, as a few players...

Nigeria's flag bearer at the opening ceremony and representative in the women's singles table tennis event, Funke Oshonaike, has crashed out of the Rio 2016 Olympics after losing 4-2 to Puerto Rico's Diaz Adriana. Adriana took the first set 11-7 before Oshonaike make it a set apiece...

This video highlights the top sports news as we saw it on Nigerian Bulletin this week that ends 06 August, 2016. -- Rio Olympics: Nigeria Defeat Japan in 9-goal Thriller Messi Snubbed as UEFA Releases Final List for Europe Best Player Award Dalung Mocked For Saying ''United States of...

Rio's Olympic Games have officially begun after Friday's Opening Ceremony - a celebration of Brazilian culture featuring Gisele, carnival-style dancing and an elaborate light display. See Photos:

Sports Journalist, Colin Udoh and Aleander Wolff - a sports writer currently covering the Rio Olympics has shared photos of Nigeria’s athletes dressed in track suits at the rio opening ceremony. The team according to the journalists have to make do with tracks because the official opening...

The Russian vice-consul in Rio de Janeiro shot dead an armed mugger who had tried to hold him up in his car - just after the Olympic torch relay had passed by on the last day before the Rio 2016 opening ceremony. Marcos Cesar Feres Braga, a Brazilian lawyer who holds the vice-consul post at...

5 goals, the opener from Sadiq Umar, 4 from Oghenekaro Etebo was enough for the Nigerian Olympic team to see off their Japanese counterpart. Despite all odds, the jet-lagged lads gave Nigerians a hope of success as it was in the 1996 campaign. As it is always said, every event, circumstance...