Football

Nigeria minister of sports and chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Bolaji Abdullahi has called for a review of sports development policy in ECOWAS member countries. He made the call at the meeting of the ministers in charge of sports in Supreme ...

Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation have revealed that coach Stephen Keshi would no longer enjoy long training camps as was the case previously. The Eagles before winning the recent Africa Cup of Nations set up training camps for at least ...

The Ministry of Sports has re-iterated its resolve to provide all logistic support for the Flying Eagles to excel in the forthcoming 2013 Africa Youth Championship (AYC). Julius Ogunro, the Special Assistant on Media to the minister of sports, told (NA...

Broadcast Right owners of the Nigeria Premier League, Total Promotions has appealed to the Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Adbullahi over the purported cancellation of the contract it signed with the NPL which ...

Former Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu has described the late Okey Isima who passed away on Monday in Abuja as a gentleman. He described him as an intelligent man and suddenly thinking of their heroics in 1980 Nations Cup finals against Algeria wh...

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has given two participants from  Jos South football team who took part in the Glo 2012 Soccer Academy N1m each. The duo are Abdulrahaman Umar and Yakubu Aliyu who were the only two selected  participants o...

The much anticipated date for the commencement of Zaria Polo tournament has been fixed. The management of the club has said the Polo tournament will take place between April 6 and 13, 2013 at its traditional venue Zaria Polo Ground, Muhammadu Aminu Squ...

The President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Alhaji Aminu Maigari has described the controversy that trailed the purported resignation of the Super Eagles Chief Coach Stephen Keshi as unfortunate. The NFF president was speaking to sports writ...

Chelsea interim boss Rafael Benitez and captain John Terry have called reports of a rift between them “rubbish”. A report on Sunday claimed Terry and Benitez clashed earlier this month, but the pair say they are on good terms. Terry made on...

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has said he is currently “the best manager in England”. He said he is not facing any sack. City is out of European competition and face a battle to retain the Premier League title, with Manchester United...

The Nigeria Football Federation has said insinuations that the NFF was at war with the national team make-up during the SA 2013 tournament was far from the truth as the NFF President and most of his board members attended virtually all the training ses...

Nigeria U-20 have left out AFCON star Kenneth Omeruo from a 30-man provisional squad for the 2013 African Youth Championship. The biennial championship, which kicks off in Algeria from March 16, will produce four African representatives for the FIFA U2...

The captain of the victorious Super Eagles, Joseph Yobo spoke to Salifu Usman about his views on the concluded 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and said he plans to retire from the national team after 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Excerpts Before th...

The Nigerian football fraternity was thrown into confusion on Monday night while expecting the return of victorious Super Eagles from South Africa following their victory in the 2013 AFCON tournament. The news was that coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi ha...

Rafael Benitez wants Chelsea to be more clinical following their 1-0 Europa League win at Sparta Prague. Oscar came off the bench to score the winner eight minutes from time and leave last season’s European champions well placed to reach the last...