By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has given clarification of Nigeria’s U-20 Women’s team, Falconets overstaying for 24 hours at Istanbul following their exit at the Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. Falconets were enroute Abuja after bowing out of the tournament on Sunday, following...
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Former world tennis number one Angelique Kerber is pregnant, her management team disclosed on Wednesday. The three-time Grand Slam winner is expecting her first child and will not play in the US Open starting on Monday. Kerber, 34, last played at Wimbledon in July. Her pregnancy does not mean...
Tyson Fury has set a seven-day deadline to arrange a unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk retained his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO belts after winning his rematch with Anthony Joshua on Saturday. Fury, who retired after beating Dillian Whyte in April, holds the WBC belt. Promoter Frank...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) says its 2022/23 interclub competition would kick-off on September 9. CAF made the announcement in a statement posted on its official website, cafonline.com, on Wednesday. “The 2022/23 season will kick-off on Friday, 09 September 2022 with the preliminary rounds of both the TotalEnergies...
Ex-international Victor Ikpeba and former Gombe State Football Association Chairman, Shuaibu Gara-Gombe, are among several stakeholders who have endorsed Musa Amadu for the position of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they gave their endorsements on Tuesday in Abuja, during Amadu’s official...
Musa Amadu, a presidential aspirant in the upcoming Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Elective Congress, on Tuesday harped on the need to get it right in the country’s football administration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Amadu made the remarks during his official declaration to run for the...
Manchester United defeated Liverpool 2-1 on Monday to record their first English Premier League (EPL) win of the season. United had started the weekend bottom of the Premier League, but moved above Liverpool on a massive night for their new Dutch manager. Liverpool’s expected title challenge is fading fast...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has given a rousing welcomed to El kanemi Warriors Football Club team players and the technical crew on their arrival form Sokoto Premier League match, where they won the match which earned them a promotion to Nigeria Professional Football...
The second edition of the South Atlantic Petroleum (Sapetro) Junior Tennis Championship is set to start at the prestigious Lagos Lawn Tennis Club on Tuesday. A statement from the International Tennis Academy (ITA), organisers of the championship, said the competition will feature boys and girls 10s, 12s, 14s and...
Champions Bayern Munich demolished hosts VfL Bochum 7-0 on Sunday, with new signing Sadio Mane scoring twice, to maintain their perfect start to the season. The Bavarians are two points clear at the top with nine points from three league games. They have now scored a league-record 15 goals...
Quickfire goals by Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva helped Manchester City recover from two goals down to draw 3-3 with Newcastle United in a rip-roaring Premier League clash on Sunday. Neither side had conceded a goal in the league this season but Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring for champions...
Poor finishing and hard luck did Nigeria in on Sunday to bow out of the ongoing FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup after a 0-2 loss to The Netherlands. The Falconets could not reenact earlier round performances, which saw them winning all three group phase matches, in this their quarter-final...
Robert Lewandowski scored a brace as FC Barcelona cruised to a 4-1 victory at Real Sociedad on Sunday, their first win of the new LaLiga season. Spanish teenage sensation Ansu Fati came off the bench in the second half and took charge of the proceedings with two assists and...
Kylian Mbappe equalled the record for the fastest goal in Ligue 1 history as he struck after just eight seconds as part of a hat-trick on Sunday. His feat was in Paris Saint-Germain’s emphatic 7-1 win over Lille. The 23-year-old superbly lifted over Leo Jardim almost immediately from kick-off,...
Leeds United produced a relentless display to earn a 3-0 Premier League victory over Chelsea on Sunday as they continued to impress under American coach Jesse Marsch. In a raucous Elland Road atmosphere, two goals in five first-half minutes saw the hosts race into a 2-0 lead with Chelsea,...
Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman is confident he will bounce back after losing his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight title at UFC 278 to Britain’s Leon Edwards. The win for Edwards at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, U. S. on Saturday was one of the greatest comebacks in mixed...
Some boxing fans across the sporting fraternity on Sunday expressed shock over the loss of Anthony Joshua to Oleksandr Usyk on split decision in the world heavyweight championship bout in Saudi Arabia. With the victory, Usyk is still the world heavyweight champion, after beating Joshua second time running on...
Anthony Joshua, British-Nigerian boxer on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia fought back tears after a narrow loss to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk, in an highly anticipated rematch, beat Joshua on split decision to retain the IBO, IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight title. A rattled Joshua at a post-fight press...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Technical Director of Cross River State Football Association and former captain of Rovers Football club of Calabar, Chief Edum Paul Attila has said that he married his wife from the pitch as a player. Mr. Attila said: I met my wife inside the...
Briton Leon Edwards pulled off a fifth-round head-kick knockout out of nowhere to dethrone Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman and win the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight title at UFC 278. The win for Edwards at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, U. S. on Saturday was one of the...