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Nigeria registered a demoralising 11-0 victory over FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup hosts Azerbiajan, seeing them eliminated, with Chinwendu Ihezuo playing a part in eight of them.
Two hundred and ninety (290) players have been accredited for participation at the 6th edition of the Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics Championship, scheduled for Uyo, Akwa Ibom State next week. The accredited players are for four diffe...
Eagles coach Stephen Keshi is looking at several other players to replace Italy-based Obiora Nwankwo who struggled in Liberia this month. Top team officials informed MTNFootball.com that Nwankwo was slow and sluggish against the Lone Star of Liberia in...
For ten days, the 12-man Lagos table tennis team were exposed to top flight training at the Chinese National Training Centre in Hebei, China and after returning, they admitted that they are at the right frame of mind to dominate the event at the ...
Coach John Obuh has promised that the Flying Eagles will qualify for next year’s AYC in Algeria after they drew 1-1 with South Africa in Nelspruit on Friday. The Flying Eagles are the defending African champions having won the 2011 competition in...
Arrangements for the Dr. Alex Ekwueme under -18 National Junior Tennis Championship have reached advanced stage even as the competition is expected to kick off at Enugu Sports Club from 8th to 12th October, 2012. Briefing newsmen on the upcoming ...
National U-17 side, Flamingoes were on Saturday held by Canada in a pulsating 1-1 draw at the Tofig Bahramov Stadium. Though the team spurned a lot of scoring chances, but only got a goal through Ihezuo’s volley to equalize on a goal which earlie...
Cup holders, Heartland have placed 14 players on the transfer market while they retained 21. Heartland finished eighth on the log on 51 points from 36 matches. General Manager of the Naze Millionaires, Fan Ndubuoke said the players, who have been asked...
Nigeria and Canada played out a pulsating 1-1 draw in the Tofig Bahramov stadium yesterday despite the African side feeling they deserved all three points. Flamingoes dominated the first-half and Coach Peter Dedevbo was wondering how his side came in a...
Roberto Mancini says it is “difficult” to keep striker Mario Balotelli happy at Manchester City if he continues to miss the club’s biggest games. Balotelli, 22, was left out of City’s matchday squad for the high profile Champion...
A rampant but wasteful Nigeria side will feel hard done by to leave the Tofig Bahramov stadium with just a point, having hit the woodwork four times against Canada in a dominant display with the score finishing 1-1.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s last-minute winner gave Real Madrid a thrilling victory over Manchester City in a pulsating Champions League clash at the Bernabeu. City took a shock lead through Edin Dzeko’s breakaway goal. Marcelo equalised with a def...
Globacom on yesterday in Abuja presented a cheque of three hundred and fifty million naira (N350m) to the Nigerian Football Federation as the five-year sponsorship deal it signed with the Federation last year entered the second season. Presenting the c...
Recipient of LEADERSHIP sports person of the year 2011 award and African number one badminton star, Ifraimu Bulus Jimkan has cautioned Nigerians, specially sportsmen and women not to get carried away by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s continu...
The Chairperson of the Nigeria Women League Board, Mrs Dilichukwu Onyedinma has appreciated President Goodluck Jonathan for the financial reward he extended to the National Women U-20 team (Falconets). The players were rewarded with cash gift of N1m ea...