The 2018 Youth Olympic Games will be hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 6th to 18th, and 100 athletes will represent Africa in Track and Field at the competition. These athletes were selected based on their performance at the African Youth Games which took place in Algeria in July.

Nigerian athletes who were hosted to a dinner by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night following their exploits at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, are at daggers drawn with Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials after their transportation allowance was cut.

African Senior Athletics Championships, local organizing committee chairman, Solomon Ogba, said new standards will be set in hosting the Asaba 2018 championships.

African 100m record holder, Olusoji Fasuba has revealed his frustration with Nigeria’s inability to produce world class sprinters after he quit the scene.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) 3rd Golden League began at the Main Bowl of the Abuja National Stadium on Friday.

In releasing the list of 37 athletes for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN placed emphasis on home-based athletes.

Reigning world outdoor high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene is among 18 Russian athletes cleared to compete so far this year as neutrals, the IAAF said on Thursday.

THE 2018 Athletics season has taken off in earnest, and asides the Commonwealth Games holding in Gold Coast in April, one of the major events Nigeria will be hoping to dominate is the African Championships scheduled to hold in August in Asaba, Delta State.

Declaring a State of Emergency in the throws in Nigerian Athletics ,Nigeria, over the years, has been predominantly regarded as a sprinting nation, going by the exploits of some of the country’s sprinters on the world stage, talking about the likes of Innocent Egbunike, Falilat Ogunkoya, Mary Onyali, Blessing Okagbare and several others. The country has also produced exceptional jumpers in the ilk of Ajayi Agbebaku, Yussuf Alli and Chioma Ajunwa, who won Nigeria’s first ever Olympic Gold medal, having dominated the women’s Long Jump at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Athletes have commended the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for beginning the 2017/2018 season with the annual All-Comers competition in November, saying it would enhance preparations for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and other international tournaments.