Table tennis star, Offiong Edem on Tuesday won Nigeria's first medal at the 13th edition of the African Games in Accra, Ghana. Edem claimed a bronze medal in the women's singles event.
Africa will not win the gold medal at this year's Olympics. This follows the exit of the continent's last two teams left. Egypt and Ivory Coast were both eliminated at the quarter-final stage on Saturday.
The 29-year-old has now disclosed that the medal he received after France won the World Cup in 2018 was also stolen. Pogba said in remarks reported by L'Equipe: "There were jewels from my mother, my world champion medal.
The 2023 All African Games final ranking medal table is out. This follows the conclusion of the Games in Ghana on Saturday. Egypt top the medal ranking table with a total of 189 medals (101 gold, 46 silver and 42 bronze).
"I never keep any jewellery of mine in my house so all that was contained in the safe were my Champions League winners medal and Super Cup winners medal and the runners up medal for the Euro 2020," he wrote.
Team Nigeria have continued their medal rush at the 2022 Commonwealth Games with Taiwo Liadi claiming another in the weightlifting event. Liadi lifted a combined total weight of 216kg to clinch Silver in the women's 76kg category.
Manchester united coach, Jose Mourinho gave his UEFA Super cup silver medal to a Nigerian kid, Deji. Manchester United asked on twitter to know who Mourinho gave his medal to.
Ese Brume has won Nigeria's first medal at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She won bronze in the long jump event. Brume's 6.97m jumped came just short of 0.3 of Germany's Malaika Mihambo's 7.00m and American Brittney Reese's 6.97m.
The Pacific nation of Fiji has erupted with wild celebrations and announced a nationwide public holiday after winning its first Olympic gold medal in the men's rugby sevens.
The ex-Chelsea boss threw his winners' medal into the crowd following their Premier League triumph in 2006 and also gave away his medal after the 2015 Community Shield.
However, during the medal presentation after the match, Pinnick seemed to snub Rohr in a video. As the German walked towards the podium, the NFF chief did not shake hands with the coach like the other dignitaries and looked away.
Tebogo makes history at WACAfrica is known for their long- and middle-distance runners from East Africa, but Tebogo's silver medal gives Africa their first ever medal at the World Athletics Championships since it was inaugurated in 1983, per
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss was the first man to pick up his medal during the presentation but ended up handing it over to a fan in the crowd. "That's what I did, I don't want silver medals.