African Games

Nigeria, alongside Morocco, Egypt and Kenya will battle it out in the women’s team competition at the African Games in Rabat. The four teams were selected via point calculation. Based on Nigeria’s performances so far, we qualified for the women’s team event after Egypt and Morocco. Nigeria will take on host nation, Morocco, while Egypt […]

The Nigerian pair of Oyinlomo Quadre and Adesuwa Osabuohein came agonizingly close to booking their place in the women’s doubles final at the African Games in Rabat today, but fell just short to the Egyptian duo of Lamis Alhussein and Sandra Samir. Quadre and Adesuwa had lost the first set via a tiebreaker, but responded […]

In the women’s doubles event, where Nigeria is still in contention, the duo of Oyinlomo Quadre and Adesuwa Osabuohein will look to keep up their effective partnership, as they go all out for a place in the doubles final. Elsewhere, Oyinlomo Quadre, as a result of reaching the quarter-finals of the women’s singles event, will […]

The duo of Oyinlomo Quadre and Adesuwa Osabuohein produced a flawless performance to thrash the Kenyan pair of Faith Omurunga and Alicia Owegi and reach the semifinals of the women’s doubles at the African Games in Rabat today. Quadre and Osabuohein team up excellently and got everything right on the day, as they blew away […]

Oyinlomo Quadre came up short in her quarter-final encounter at the African Games in Rabat today, falling in straight sets to 27-year-old Chanel Simmonds of South Africa, who’s ranked 376 in the world. Quadre, 16, had moved into the quarter-finals following sensational performances in the second and third rounds of the women’s singles, but just […]

Oyinlomo Quadre continued in her rich vein of form as she demolished Kenya’s Judith Muraa in quick straight sets to advance to the women’s singles quarter-finals at the African Games in Rabat today. It was an outstanding display of tennis from the 16-year-old Nigerian to comfortably secure a 6-1, 6-1 victory in 50 minutes. Up […]

Action continues in both the men’s and women’s singles, as well as the doubles event at the African Games in Rabat on Monday. Sylvester Emmanuel, the last Nigerian standing in the men’s singles event, takes on Egyptian No.2 seed, Karim Maamoun, with a place in the quarter-finals on the line. In the women’s singles, Oyinlomo […]

The African Para Games will hold in Rabat, Morocco from 26-31 January, 2020, with 55 nations expected to compete. Around 1,200 athletes are expected to attend the continent’s main Para sport competition and compete across Africa’s seven most-practiced Para sports: athletics, blind football, goalball, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, taekwondo and wheelchair basketball. Most of the events […]