Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag was in defiant mood after being handed a touchline suspension following his team’s 1-0 Premier League victory over Luton Town on Saturday.ag The Dutchman was shown his third yellow card of the season as Victor Lindelof scored the only goal to earn...
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Arsenal outclassed Burnley 3-1 on Saturday to move second in the Premier League table and hand the visitors a sixth straight defeat in all competitions. Goals from Leandro Trossard, William Saliba and Oleksandr Zinchenko gave Arsenal victory but their afternoon ended on a sour note when Fabio Vieira...
Nigeria Men’s Cricket Team will meet their Kenya counterparts in their first game of the T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier fixed for Nov. 23. This is stated in a Circular 2 released by Kuben Pillay of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Africa, on Friday in Abuja. The first...
No fewer than 200 armature golf players will compete at the 62nd edition of the First Bank Golf Lagos Open scheduled to tee-off from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19 at the Ikoyi Club,1938 golf section. Olusegun Alebiosu, Executive Director, Chief Risk Officer, FirstBank, who represented the Managing...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it would launch online tickets sales for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nation on Nov. 11. CAF in a statement on its website on Thursday, said it is aimed at attracting football fans across...
“MTN Champs” is a national development intervention that will surely achieve its lofty aims, an official of the event’s sponsors has said. Ifeanyi Udom, MTN’s Senior Manager, Sales and Trade Development, South West, said on Wednesday in Ibadan that the championship was established to unearth and groom future...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Head Coach of Nigeria’s U20 girls, Christopher Musa Danjuma has selected three goalkeepers, six defenders, five midfielders and five forwards for next Sunday’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifying match against their Tanzanian counterparts. Goalkeeper Faith Omilana,...
Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is 100 per cent ready to face FC Copenhagen in Wednesday’s Champions League trip after missing last weekend’s 1-0 win at Fulham, manager Erik Ten Hag said. However, United have been hit with a double injury blow as Brazil midfielder Casemiro and Argentina...
Erling Haaland scored twice as holders Manchester City cruised into the last 16 of the Champions League with two group games remaining. This was after a 3-0 victory over Swiss side Young Boys on Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s side maintained their 100 percent record and lead Group G with...
Excited fans on Monday swarmed around Kano Pillars’ captain, Rabiu Ali, after his team’s Match Day 7 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) match against Sporting Lagos FC on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023/2024 Match Day 7 played at Mobolaji Johnson Arena,...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Referees’ Development Committee/Unit have placed 14 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) referees on preliminary suspension over poor officiating. This is contained in a letter by Faith Irabor, Head of NFF’s Referees’ Development Committee/Unit and addressed to Davidson Owumi,...
A former Kano Pillars player and highest goal scorer, Junior Lokosa, now playing for Sporting Lagos FC on Monday described his brace against his former club as an emotional moment. Lokosa said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier...
The committee set up by the Ondo State Football Association (Ondo FA) to organise the second edition of Bet9ja Ondo State Football League has held draws for 60 teams that would be participating in the competition. The Chairman of Bet9ja Ondo State Football League, Yomi Seriki, at...
Kaduna based polo team Kangimi on Sunday won the 103rd edition of the annual First Bank Kaduna International Polo Tournament, Georgia Cup. Pious Eromosele, the tournament’s Media Consultant, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The victory came...
Day 7 fixtures played on Sunday in the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL): Shooting Stars FC 4-1 Niger Tornadoes FC Abia Warriors FC 2-1 Katsina United FC Rangers International FC 2-0 Heartland FC Akwa United FC 0-0 Plateau United FC Bendel Insurance FC 1-0 Remo Stars FC Rivers...
Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan on Sunday whipped visiting Niger Tornadoes FC of Minna 4-1 in their 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) Match Day 7 fixture. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hosts braced up to the task at hand from the opening...
The finals of the second edition of the Prime Atlantic Squash Tournament on Saturday saw Onaopemipo Adegoke and Rofiat Abudulazeez winning in the male and female categories, reminding spectators why they are Nigeria’s number one ranked players. The tournament, which served-off Oct. 31 at the Teslim Balogun...
The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) and StarTimes have signed a five-year broadcast rights deal worth one billion naira to bring the country’s elite league back on television. This was confirmed during the contract signing ceremony in Abuja, with officials of NPFL and Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in...
The following are the results of Match Day 6 fixtures played on Wednesday in the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL): Akwa United FC 1-0 Gombe United FC Sunshine Stars FC 2-1 Abia Warriors FC Niger Tornadoes FC 0-0 Enyimba International FC Remo Stars FC 3-0 Shooting Stars...