Other Sports
18 Jun 2023
South Korea's rising badminton star An Se-young flashes a smile when asked about her dream of becoming the women's world number one, and the first woman from her country...
18 Jun 2023
The Edo State Aquatic Association team of swimmers, at the weekend, emerged overall winners of the National Under 18 Swimming championship in Asaba, Delta state.
17 Jun 2023
Officially, the football season in our part of the world has ended. The European Leagues are also on break, and all national football teams have resumed their march to other continental championships.
16 Jun 2023
Organisers of the just-concluded M.I Okoro and Associates American Badminton Championship, Meckson Okoro, has called on corporate organisations and government at all levels to invest more on sports to create avenues for Nigerian youths to build their skills and earn a living from such talents.
13 Jun 2023
The 2023 Access Bank UNICEF Polo Tournament, which ended at the weekend, left smiles on the faces of many of the participants, including underpriviled chidren, who got a N10 million donation from the sponsoring bank.
13 Jun 2023
Nigeria Rugby Football Federation (NRFF), yesterday, unveiled a 12-man Black Stallions’ squad for this month’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers scheduled for Mauritius.
12 Jun 2023
Nigeria’s growing influence in African women cricket has been highlighted in Kigali, Rwanda, venue of the ongoing Kwibuka T20 Women Cricket Tournament featuring some of the top nations in the continent’s game.
11 Jun 2023
The Lagos State Taekwondo Association Chairman, Jummy Ogunnowo, has stated that the association is currently planning to partner with the Korea Cultural Centre (KCC) to teach students taekwondo in schools.
10 Jun 2023
As far as I can recall, it has never happened quite like this in Nigeria’s sports history. I mean, for stakeholders (not all of them though, admittedly) to come together at the end of the tenure of a Sports minister and fete him for doing well. I should know, having been in the corridors of…
9 Jun 2023
One of the biggest eSports titles in Nigeria is the hugely successful PUBG: Battlegrounds video game (which used to be called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG). Revealed on this page are several other popular eSports titles and some of today's biggest eSports events from around the world that you can bet on right now at several…
9 Jun 2023
Over 20 countries are expected in Lagos for the World Table Tennis Contender Championship (WTT Contender), which serves off on June 12 and ends on June 18 at the Molade Okoya Thomos Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.
9 Jun 2023
Team Access Bank and Kano Rumbu polo teams were in excellent form on Sunday at the 2023 Access Bank UNICEF Charity Shield polo tournament held at Fifth Chukker and Country Polo resort, Kaduna.
Sport
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Leul Gebreselassie, the second Ethiopian man to win the men's title at the Okpekpe international 10km road race, will be gunning for his first major marathon win on Sunday at the London Marathon. The London Marathon is one of the six major marathons in the world. The rest are Boston, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, and Chicago…
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Mikel Arteta has urged Arsenal to prove they have the mental strength to bounce back from a painful spell that wrecked their Champions League challenge and dented their Premier League title bid.
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Pep Guardiola has revealed Erling Haaland could miss Manchester City's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday.
17 hours ago
The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) has provided an opportunity for Heartland of Owerri to fight to save their season by lifting the ban, albeit provisionally, on Dan Anyiam Stadium.
18 hours ago
Apart from showing boxing fans why he is the best pound-for-pound fighter on the scene currently, lightweight star, Emmanuel ‘Ability’ Abimbola, also wants to pocket the Mojisola Memorial Ogunsanya trophy and the N1 million cash prize for the best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 31.
18 hours ago
The National Institute for Sports (NIS), Lagos and the Adamawa State government have started a five-day capacity training workshop for coaches, sports administrators and games masters, as well as Physical and Health Education teachers in the North East state .
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Liverpool were knocked out of the Europa League by Atalanta with the Italian side reaching the semi-finals 3-1 on aggregate on Thursday.
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Bayer Leverkusen's Nigerian striker, Victor Boniface, has been nominated for the 2023/24 Bundesliga Team of the Season. Bundesliga announced the nominees on their X handles on Thursday, 18 April l, 2024. Boniface is one of eight Leverkusen players, which includes former Arsenal midfielder, Granit Xhaka, that were shortlised. He, alongside Harry Kane of Bayern Munich…