BLESSING OKAGBARE

US officials have disclosed that a Texas therapist who admitted on Monday to providing banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare with performance-enhancing substances faces up to 10 years in jail. The Department of Justice announced…

Nigerian athlete, Favour Ofili, has broken Blessing Okagbare’s 200 metres National Record at Tom Jones Memorial Classic 2022. Okagbare previously held the National Record since 2018 with a time of 22.04 seconds. However, Ofili ran a…

Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare, has failed to appeal a 10-year ban slammed on her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) Disciplinary Tribunal. The 33-year-old received the punishment after the presence and use of multiple…

Nigeria’s 2008 long jump silver medalist, Blessing Okagbare, has reacted to the decision of Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) to hand her a 10-year-ban for doping violations. The 33-year-old, who is also a sprinter, was expelled from the…

Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare has on Friday been banned for 10 years for multiple breaches of anti-doping rules, Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced. Recall that the 33-year-old was expelled from the Tokyo Olympics last year…

Details of a chat between suspended Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare, and her arrested ‘drug supplier’ therapist, Eric Lira, have been revealed by the United States Justice Department. Lira, a self-acclaimed kinesiologist and…

Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare has been charged after testing positive for human growth hormone and erythropoietin (EPO), offences that forced her to pull out of Tokyo Olympics, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday.…

Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) says it is in the process of obtaining relevant details about the provisional suspension of Nigeria’s track and field athlete, Blessing Okagbare. The new development was disclosed in a statement…

Many Nigerians have expressed shock and sadness over the suspension of one of Nigeria’s top athlete, Blessing Okagbare from 2020 Tokyo Olympics for failing a drug test. Athletics Integrity Unit, a unit of International Association of…

Nigeria’s sprint Queen, Blessing Okagbare, has been “provisionally” suspended for testing positive for human growth hormone. Athletics Integrity Unit made this known in a press statement, saying that the 32-year-old…

Team Nigeria’s duo of Blessing Okagbare and Grace Nwokocha have on Friday qualified for the semifinals of the women’s 100 metres event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Okagbare who is the reigning Nigerian record holder in both the…

Nigerian athletics champion, Blessing Okagbare has reacted to the recent ban of ten Nigerian athletes due to poor testing compliance. MDB reported earlier that 10 of Nigeria’s 20 athletes expected to participate in athletics events at…

Reigning Nigeria sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare, has topped the list of 12 athletes cleared by Athletics Integrity Unit compete in the athletics event of ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Okagbare, who is making her fourth appearance at…

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare continued her preparation for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as the former African champion produced the first sub-11-second 100m run on Slovak soil when winning at P-T-S Meeting – a World Athletics Continental…