Football
11 Mar
FIFA licensed football agent, Drew Uyi, has thrown his hat in the ring to back Nigerian striker Moses Ebiye to succeed at Motherwell. Moses Ebiye last week signed on the dotted line for Scottish Premiership side Motherwell. The Nigerian was previously in Norway, playing professionally before taking a new turn in his career drive. The…
11 Mar
Remo Stars got their biggest defeat of the season, yesterday, at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan, where Sporting Lagos dented their Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) title ambitions with a 4-1 thrashing.
11 Mar
Alexis Mac Allister scored a second-half leveller from the penalty spot as Liverpool and title rivals, Manchester City, played out an absorbing draw at Anfield.
10 Mar
Nathan Tella was on target for Bayer Leverkusen in their 2-0 home win against 10-man Wolfsburg, in the German Bundesliga on Sunday. The win took Leverkusen (on 67 points) 10 points clear of Bayern Munich in the league table. Also, Leverkusen are yet to taste defeat in all competitions this season. Tella has now scored…
10 Mar
Paris Saint-Germain were held 2-2 by Reims in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a third straight domestic draw which still allowed the reigning champions to extend their lead at the top of the table to 10 points.
10 Mar
Africa vice champions, Nigeria, will take on Ghana’s Black Stars and Les Aigles of Mali in two top-grade friendly matches in the Moroccan city of Marrakech later this month.
9 Mar
The quintet of Taiwo Awoniyi, Cyril Dessers, Tyronne Ebuehi, Sadiq Umar, and Wilfred Ndidi will return to national duties as the Super Eagles of Nigeria face Ghana and Mali in friendly matches. The five men have been included in the list of 26 players called up by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to prosecute the…
9 Mar
Everton paid for conceding two first-half penalties at Old Trafford as Manchester United bounced back to winning ways to keep their Champions League hopes for next season alive with a 2-0 victory on Saturday.
9 Mar
Nigeria’s male football team last won the gold medal of the African Games far back in 1973, when Nigeria hosted the Games in Lagos. That was 51 years ago. Not even the COJA 2003 Games held in Abuja could change the situation.
9 Mar
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, have agreed to partner on the conduct of drug test for footballers in the country as part of efforts to curb the menace of substance abuse in Nigeria.
9 Mar
I do not like to bring up the issue of coaches, because we forget easily. Let us talk about a few foreign coaches since Clemens Westerhof, my friend, the acclaimed best coach in Nigeria’s history
9 Mar
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta is confident Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli will be fit to play against Brentford today. Goalkeeper David Raya is ineligible to face his parent club, while Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu are likely to remain out.