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Sports Writer, Beyond Football
Ngozi covers Nigerian athletes beyond football, from D'Tigress to the track, when there is a real story to tell.
Covers: Basketball, Athletics
The NBA's 2026-27 opening-night rosters include six Nigerian players and a record number with African roots. The six players, their teams and the wider list.
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Mustapha Abdullahi won 40 of 48 votes to become NBBF president. Former D'Tigers captain Olumide Oyedeji has appealed and wants the election rerun.
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NSC Director-General Bukola Olopade and NOC President Habu Gumel represented Nigeria at the LA28 pre-Games meeting in Los Angeles, with the Games 21 months away.
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PSG say Super Falcons captain Rasheedat Ajibade fractured her fibula against Comoros and will have surgery. What it means for Nigeria's Olympic qualifier against Morocco in March.
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Nigeria's Super Falcons beat Comoros 2-0 and 5-0 to reach the third round of LA 2028 Olympic qualifying, where Morocco wait in March 2027.
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An African title in Accra, Diamond League wins in Rabat and Paris, a meet record in New Taipei and a season-long duel with Masai Russell. Tobi Amusan's 2026 reviewed.
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D'Tigress won a record fifth straight AfroBasket in 2025, then lost all three games at the World Cup in Berlin. The results, the reasons and the rebuild.
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