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Health experts and nutritionists have warned Nigerians to be more conscious about what goes into their bodies through their mouths.

The Imo Police Command said it arrested 56 suspects for various criminal offences, including armed robbery, kidnapping, child trafficking, cultism, murder and terrorism between January and June.

The police said that Sixtus Ezebudo, 29, was arrested for murder and harvesting of organs after luring his victim to an uncompleted building.

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'Now, more than ever, we stand united to use that power of sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Movement to help win the battle against COVID because we go faster, we aim higher, we are stronger when we stand together'

Olympians and Paralympians from across the world, including Indias two-time Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu, have called on the world leaders to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines.In a video produced by the International Olympic ...

Offiong qualifies, Oshonaike, Omotayo out The Punch Published 25 July 2021 Nigeria’s Edem Offiong advanced to the second round of the women’s singles event of the 2020 Olympic Games with an emphatic 4-1 win over Hungary’s Dora Madarasz at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday. Offiong, ranked 123 in the world, showed her dominance in the encounter beating the Hungarian 11-8, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4 to book a spot in the second round, where she will battle American Li...

Nigeria’s first Olympics medal was won at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo where the country’s representative in boxing, Nojeem Maiyegun won a bronze medal in the men’s light middleweight class. That achievement opened the door for more medals in subsequent editions with Team Nigeria’s best outing being the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where Nigeria won two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals. It was at the Atlanta Olympics that Nigeria won her first and only individual Olympics gold medal. Po...

1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal because of the African boycott. This year, 60 athletes will represent Team Nigeria at the Games across 10 sports-athletics, basketball, badminton, canoe, gymnastics, table tennis, swimming, rowing, wrestling and taekwondo. But there is however less buzz around this years Games from a Nigerian perspective after both Nigerias team failed to qualify. Nigeria got their most memorable moments in Olympic history in football when the Kanu Nwan...

“I am not under any pressure, I just want to go out there and do my stuff,” he said. “I want to win a medal for Nigeria, but first I will need to get to the final. That is the first step to winning a medal. “I will be competing in six events and if I make the finals, anything can happen. I want to go out there and put all the hard work of 20 years, when I first started gymnastics, to the test. “I am not going to be concentrating on any other person. I will focus on myself and do what ...