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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.

Sport

11 hours ago
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.
11 hours ago
The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) has shifted week 28 matches billed for this weekend to Wednesday.
11 hours ago
This year’s Ikoyi Club 1938 Veteran’s Invitational Kitty, which celebrates camaraderie, skill, and the enduring values of golf, among its veterans, will champion inclusivity and charity, the organisers have said.
11 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.
12 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. 
12 hours ago
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.