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English Barclay Premier club, Arsenal is close to finalising plans for a pre-season tour to Nigeria this summer. Arsenal officials are in Nigeria to inspect more facilities across the country for the tour scheduled to hold in August. Tour organisers, D...
Dereck Chisora has been suspended indefinitely by the World Boxing Council for his behaviour before and after his fight with Vitali Klitschko. British heavyweight Chisora was involved in a brawl with countryman David Haye at the news confe...
The Senior National Team of Nigeria, Super Eagles, remained in very high spirit on Tuesday, 24 hours to the 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifying match against the Amavubi Stars of Rwanda in Kigali. A delegation of players, technical and...
Nigeria will be unveiling a newly designed jersey by kit sponsors adidas when they face Rwanda in Kigali on Wednesday in their 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. From agreements reached with the sportswear company, adidas will c...
Nigeria's Super Eagles are expected to play two international friendly matches before the end of June this year. The first of the tune-up games will be against South Americans, Peru in May. In June, the Super Eagles will play h...
The two most successful clubs in the history of the Italian Serie A, Juventus and AC Milan will clash tonight in the San Siro, in the top of the table clash. For some reason, the clash between Juventus and AC Milan has been relegated to the background ...
Ahead of Wednesday’s all important 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and their Rwandan counterparts in Kigali, Eagles’ goalkeeper trainer, Ike Shorunmu has warned the foreign based professionals invite...
In football, players always take the glory but coaches take the heat when things are going wrong in the team. Presently three high profile coaches are on the hot seat and things are going horribly wrong for them. The coaches are Andres Villa Boas of Ch...
Super Eagles’ new invitee, Victor Moses could be in the final season of his football career in the English premiership with Wigan Athletics as the bottom place club could say goodbye to the most lucrative league in the world at the end of the cur...
Kaduna State owned basketball club, KADA Stars have revealed they are prepared for the commencement of the new season which is expected to dunk-off this weekend in both the Atlantic and Savannah Conferences. Coach of KADA Stars, Sani Turi said his team...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has released six players out of the 22 in camp, to their various club sides ahead of this weekend’s Nigerian Premier League games. Ben Alaiya, Super Eagles Media Officer, in a statement on Friday in Abuja s...
Nigeria's Amos Adamu has lost his appeal against a three-year ban from football.He was sanctioned by football's world governing body Fifa after allegations of corruption in the run-up to the decision on who should host the 2018 and 2022 World C...
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi said he is not bothered about the Super Eagles rankings and that his team is ready to face the Wasp of Rwanda come next Wednesday. In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Coach Keshi said ‘I am not bother...
Mikel Obi is unhappy at Chelsea and he could be open to a sensational move to big-spending Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, MTNFootball.com has scooped. Close sources to the Nigeria international midfielder have said he has been unhappy fo...
Former Nigeria coach Christian Chukwu has commended the efforts of Stephen Keshi in fashioning a playing pattern for the national team with particular reference to the players based in the Nigeria Premier League. Chukwu noted that Keshi was on t...