Cape Verde
21 May
About 50 parliamentarians from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will, tomorrow, open their second extraordinary session in Kano with issues bordering on regional and economic integration of member states. Addressing journalists shortly at the end of its Bureau’s meeting, yesterday, First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament, Senator Barau Jibril, said the…
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.
2 Feb
Ademola Lookman’s first half strike booked Nigeria’s place in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-finals with a 1-0 win over Angola. The win continues the Super Eagles’ excellent AFCON quarter-final record, having lost only one of their previous 11 last-eight ties in the competition.
30 Jan
Cape Verde also known as Cabo Verde recently have been grabbing the headlines for all positive reasons, at the AFCON, after getting to the last eight of the competition. Here is the reason why the country change its name from Cape Verde to Cabo Verde. The country changed its name in 2013, and minister of…
28 Jan
As the knockout stage of 34th African Cup of Nations enters second day today in Cote d’Ivoire, football fans across the continent are angling for more upsets. It is the second time Cote d’Ivoire is hosting the competition, the first was in 1984.
23 Jan
The injured Mohamed Salah watched from the stands as Egypt played out a crazy 2-2 draw with Cape Verde at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday
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