All sports stories from Naija – Latest from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Nigerian Super Eagles and Super Falcons preparations for the FIFA World Cups, and the Nigeria athletes compete at the Commonwealth Games, Olympics and the IAAF World Championships.
The last group in England with this many records was The Beatles. The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team beat Nigeria 156-73 Thursday night, an epic blowout that answered the Americans' detractors and sent a clear message to let them be. After ...
Coach of the Nigeria Under 20 Football Team, John Obuh has called up five players ahead of the second leg of their third round Africa Youth Championship (AYC) qualifier against Tanzania. The Flying Eagles defeated Tanzania 2-1 in the first leg qualifie...
Niger State government will be shopping for N200 million to fund the hosting of the Nigeria College of Education Game NATCEGA by the State College of Education, Minna next year. The commissioner of Higher and technical Education, Dr. Mustapha Lemu, dis...
Chinese badminton player Yu Yang on Thursday announced her decision to quit the sport after being expelled from the 2012 Olympic Games in London for throwing matches at the Games. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yu was among eight women&#...
Lithuania basketball coach revealed after beating his African foes that he never took the encounter lightly because he knew how talented and dangerous the Nigerian team is. Nigeria is 21st in the world why Lithuania is 5th. Kestutis Kemzura said he kne...
Team Nigeria weightlifters will today and Friday begin their quest for medals at the London Olympics Games. Felix Ekpo is expected to battle for the ultimate prize in the sport today while Mariam Usman is up on Friday in the women’s category. Ekp...
D’Tigers’ chief coach, Ayo Bakare has expressed displeasure over the inability of the basketball team to repeat the defeat they handed the world’s best fifth team Lithuania yesterday. Nigeria defeated the Lithuanians during the Olympi...
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has admitted that the club’s financial problems mean that they must now strive to develop great players, just as Barcelona have done, rather than embark upon any more “shopping sprees”, as they did dur...
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has admitted that he finds it difficult to explain exactly why he has enjoyed such remarkable success during his career, joking that he is “not even the boss at home”, so he has no idea how he manages to run ...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Football Association (FA) Chairman, Alhaji Musa Saeed Talle has called on corporate organizations in the country to support the various relevant organs in development of football in the country, saying government alo...
The Port-Harcourt side could not continue their journey to Kaduna after they were involved in an accident in Auchi. Players and officials of Sharks may not honour the Week 36 Nigeria Premier League game against Kaduna United as they were involved in an...
Nigeria Premier League (NPL) club, Enugu Rangers have revealed they are in talks with Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs; Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns over partnerships that would see the teams “exchange ideas and forge a fruitful alliance....
Brown Ideye continued his impressive run in the new 2012/13 Ukraine Super League with two goals in Dynamo Kyiv’s 3-1 win over Hoverla-Zakarpattia on Saturday. But Ideye left it very late to help Kyiv to the victory. Hoverla-Zakarpattia took the l...
Lithuania earned their first preliminary round victory of the London 2012 Olympic Games on Tuesday, a 72-53 triumph over Nigeria in group A of the men's basketball competition at the Basketball Arena.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning confirmed their status as gold medal favourites as they stormed into the final of the women's pair in a new Olympic record time. Roared on by a packed crowd at Eton Dorney, Glover and Stanning won the opening heat ...