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25 Feb
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BetKing, Gossy Ukanwoke, has said celebrating the company’s sixth anniversary with an exhibition match between the Kingmakers FC and BetKing Agents was a fantastic idea.
24 Feb
Simidele Adeagbo will make history for Nigeria this weekend as the first African athlete to compete in bobsleigh at the BMW IBSF World Championship in Winterberg, Germany.
24 Feb
The ‘new’ Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Eno, is an enigmatic, silent operator. You hardly see him, yet, quietly, he is impacting Nigerian sports in a big way.
24 Feb
The final weekend of the prestigious NPA/GTCO 2024 Lagos International Polo Tournament provided another wave of triumphs, disappointments and astounding athletic achievements with Lagos-based teams letting out the biggest roars, dominating on all fronts.
23 Feb
South South U-17 teams’ coach, Theophilus Ibodeme, has described his zone’s continued dominance of the country’s youth cricket as a reward for meticulous planning and investment in grassroots development.
23 Feb
The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), which on Wednesday, announced that it was withdrawing the men’s national team from participating in the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers, which begins in Tunisia this weekend, yesterday said it had started moves to get the team to feature in the competition.
22 Feb
The Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) is now making last-minute attempts for the men’s national basketball team D’Tigers to play the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers. D’Tigers late Wednesday night said that they had withdrawn from the AfroBasket qualifiers due to issues related to money. "Despite several 2020 Olympians committing, D’Tigers will forfeit this AfroBasket Qualifiers window due…
22 Feb
The Main Organising Committee (MOC) of the fifth Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) Women’s T20 Invitational Tournament has announced that Tanzania will participate in the four-nation event scheduled to hold from February 23 to March 3 in Lagos.
22 Feb
Former Nigerian MMA star, Lovethpatra Ekufu, has revealed that she is in a partnership with some Nollywood actors and social media content creators to launch a first-of-its-kind celebrity Global Fight Concert on Friday at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
22 Feb
Former champions, D’Tigers of Nigeria, have pulled out of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers billed to start in Tunisia this weekend. Nigeria is drawn in Group B of the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers alongside Cape Verde, Libya and Uganda.
21 Feb
A group comprising US Monastir of Tunisia, APR of Rwanda and Senegal’s AS Douanes is expected to be as tough as any pairings can be, but Rivers Hoopers Head Coach, Ogoh Odaudu, has said that his team would be ready for the challenges when the Basketball Africa League (BAL) begins.
20 Feb
Sports is one of the best ways to instil discipline, perseverance and hard work on students, Deeper Life High School (DLHS), Lagos Campus, has explained.

Sport

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Nigeria’s sole surviving club in CAF’s inter-club competitions, Rivers United, are billed to host the first leg of the Confederation Cup final if they qualify for the title game.
8 hours ago
The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) has shifted week 28 matches billed for this weekend to Wednesday.
9 hours ago
Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter, Alex Krassyuk, is still not convinced that the Ukrainian’s highly anticipated fight with Tyson Fury will hold on May 18, reports dazn.com.
9 hours ago
Starfield College’s Principal, Sarah Oyinloye, has urged school proprietors to use sports to elevate teamworkand also build their students’ character and strength. 
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Technical director of the Nigeria Mixed Martial Arts Federation (NMMAF), Shihan Victor Akhimien, is thrilled by the strides the country’s fighters recorded at the just-concluded African Games in Ghana, saying it has shown that the sport is developing in the right direction.
1 day ago
Defender Kenneth Omeruo has assured that the Super Eagles’ players are determined to give their all for maximum points when the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers resume in June.
1 day ago
Despite Super Eagles’ 0-2 loss to the Eagles of Mali on Tuesday night, Coach Finidi George said that the Nigerians were the better team.
1 day ago
The Vice President, Visa West Africa, Andrew Uaboi, has explained why his firm chose Nigerian track and field athletes, Tobi Amusan and Goodness Nwachukwu, as part of its diverse roster of Team Visa athletes ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
1 day ago
After a thrilling 3-3 draw with Algeria in Algiers on Tuesday night, South Africa’s Coach, Hugo Broos, thumbed his chest and said the Bafana Bafana are ready for any team in Africa, including Nigeria, whom they meet in a crucial World Cup qualifier in June, reports iol.co.za.
1 day ago
Record-seeking Rivers United of Port Harcourt will move to Uyo today to begin the final preparations for their CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinal clash against champions, USM Alger of Algeria, on Sunday.