By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Iyeneobong Essien, a 16-year old Nigerian girl, for finishing second at the Champion of Champions World Golf Championship Invitational in Northern Ireland. The president saluted the achievements of the youngster, who currently topped the junior player cadre in Nigeria....
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New FC Bayern Munich forward, Sadio Mane says he does not see himself as a global star in spite of his long success run with Liverpool FC and Africa Cup of Nations title with Senegal. Mane told Bayern’s club magazine in an interview published Tuesday that all that counts...
Fans in Ebonyi joined millions across the country and the world on Monday to celebrate football maestro and former Super Eagles skipper, Kanu Nwankwo, as he turned 46. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FIFA U-17 world cup winner had 86 caps for Nigeria between 1994...
YAKUBU SOLOMON, Abuja – The Executive Committee of Confederation of African Football (CAF) has approved a revised Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 qualification calendar. The committee, in a statement on the confederation’s website, said this was because of its commitment to allowing the African nations heading to the...
Brazilian forward Neymar insists club teammate Lionel Messi has nothing to prove to his critics in his second season as a Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) player. Messi had an underwhelming first campaign with PSG following his move from FC Barcelona, scoring 11 goals in 34 games. This was down on...
Club captains in the English Premier League (EPL) will meet again this week to decide on whether to continue taking the knee before matches during the upcoming season. The anti-racism gesture has been a regular feature of English football since the summer of 2020 and was viewed as a...
An Argentinian footballer has been arrested for punching a female referee to the floor after she sent him off for insulting her. Cristian Tirone was filmed running towards Dalma Cortadi before he punched her head as she wrote his name down in her notepad after she red-carded him. Dalma,...
Rafiatu Lawal on Sunday won Nigeria’s second gold medal in the weightlifting event at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. Lawal in the process set three Commonwealth Games records in the women’s 59kg final, lifting 90kg in snatch, 116kg in clean and jerk, and 206kg in total....
England defeated Germany 2-1 after extra-time on Sunday in the final match of Euro 2022 to become women’s European champions for the first time. Chloe Kelly grabbed the winning goal by forcing the ball home during a corner-kick to the delight of the majority of the crowd which approached...
Team Nigeria are through to the quarter-finals of the men’s table tennis event at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Nigeria made it three wins out of three in Group Two to secure a quarter-final berth. The team had earlier defeated South Africa and Ghana in their first two...
Liverpool new boy Darwin Nunez drew the first blood in the battle of the super-signings with an encouraging 30-minute cameo on Saturday. He capped it with the final goal in a 3-1 win over Manchester City in the Community Shield match played at the King Power Stadium in Leicester,...
Weightlifter Adijat Olarinoye beat others in the women’s 55kg category to win the first gold for Nigeria at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and set a new Games record on Saturday. Olarinoye lifted 92kg in snatch and 111kg in clean and jerk, making 203kg in total to set a new...
Sadio Mané scored on his competitive debut for new-look Bayern Munich as they overcame RB Leipzig 5-3 in thrilling fashion on Saturday to lift the German Super Cup. Germany teenager Jamal Musiala rifled Bayern Munich ahead after RB Leipzig had failed to clear a corner-kick after 14 minutes. Ex-Liverpool...
Atletico Madrid will not be signing Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and that decision is final, club president Enrique Cerezo said on Friday. Speaking at the presentation of defender Nahuel Molina, Cerezo said the newly-recruited Argentina international was “the last piece” of the jigsaw. That means Diego Simeone’s squad is...
England’s Alex Yee grabbed the first gold medal of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with victory in the men’s triathlon on Friday. Yee chased down New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde to clinch victory in 50 minutes 34 seconds, finishing 13 seconds clear, with Australia’s Matthew Hauser three seconds further back. Yee...
World football governing body FIFA said on Friday it would look into and not tolerate human rights violations reported at its official World Cup partner hotel groups. Human and labour rights charity Equidem and labour rights forum GLJ-ILRF had made startling revelations in a report published on Thursday. They...
o Ronaldo is speaking out for the first time since telling Manchester United he wishes to leave the club this summer. In a cryptic post in response to a fan account on Instagram, Ronaldo hit out at the ‘lies’ about his future and the media amid intense speculation over...
Para Power lifter, Innocent Nnamdi and wrestler, Blessing Oborududu have been named captains for Team Nigeria at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The 2022 Commonwealth Games (Birmingham 2022) is scheduled to hold in Birmingham, England, from July 28 July to Aug. 8. The Team Nigeria captains were named...
By LORD JONATHAN MARLAND – Today, over 5000 competitors from nations as far afield as Malaysia to Jamaica converge on Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games. Challengers will look to make history in an event that previously saw Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi break a 1500m record in 1974 that still stands...
Bayern Munich CEO and legendary player of the club, Oliver Kahn has distanced the German giants from a possible purchase of Manchester United star, Cristiano Ronaldo. According to Kahn, Ronaldo, who has told Manchester United he wants to leave the club one year after returning, due to lack of...