As one of the senior members of the current D’Tigers set up, Spain-based Stanley Okoye has set his target at a possible podium finish at next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that the Tokyo Olympics may not take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained.
Tokyo on Sunday recorded 143 new cases of the coronavirus, raising the number of people, who have tested positive for it, to over 1,000.
The International Olympic Committee confirmed the news on Monday, which followed a meeting of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee.
US President Donald Trump says he supports a one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federal Government has announced the cancellation of already issued visas for travellers from 13 countries as part of measures to contain the pandemic Coronavirus.
The Federal Government has placed a ban on travel by public servants to countries highly affected by COVID-19 pandemic disease.
The Federal Government is to commence secondary screening at points of entry for travellers from eight high risk countries with widespread community transmission to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
A Japanese court on Monday ordered a death sentence to a man who killed 19 disabled people at a care home near Tokyo in 2016, the worst mass murder in post-war Japan.
Kehinde Lamidi, Chairman, Media and Publicity, Nigeria Volleyball Federation, on Tuesday said the Federation had invited eight players to prepare ahead for CAVB Continental Cup.
Japan is set, this week, to revise a law allowing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a formal state of emergency over the coronavirus if needed, as Abe faces persistent criticism for his handling of the outbreak ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday the government would ask all elementary, junior high and high schools to close from March 2 until spring break, typically around the end of March.
Japan’s Health Ministry said on Monday that 99 more people on a quarantined cruise ship in the port of Yokohama have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases on the vessel to 454.
The 82-year-old Argentinian pope, who arrived in Japan on Saturday for a four-day visit, listened to the accounts of three survivors of the disaster.
He is set to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities flattened by U.S. atom bombs at the end of World War II and meet those “who still carry the wounds of this tragic event in human history,” he said after his arrival.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has inaugurated two more passport and biometric visa facilities in Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea.
Team Nigeria have settled for Kisarazu City in Japan as pre-games camp site ahead of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Also many drowned by flooding after scores of rivers burst their banks.
Tiger Woods will take on Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama and Jason Day in a high-stakes skins game ahead of the inaugural ZOZO Championship in Japan next month.
The Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria has expressed sadness over the demise of Ambassdor Edward Aina.