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.
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi is confident his squad are prepared for the Nations Cup as they played their final tune-up game yesterday. Nigeria defeated Portuguese Second Division club Farense 5 to nill in the last game of their preparations. Desp...
Roger Federer has advanced to the second round of the Australian Open beating unseeded Frenchman. Despite the ease of the win, Federer was typically complimentary of his opponent in his post-match appraisal - and defended his decision to not play any w...
LeBron James scored 32 points to help the Heat cut a 21-point deficit to just two, but Heat lost 93-91. The Jazz held firm to consign Miami to a third loss in four contests on their six-game road trip. “The game was too close to be nervous,&rdquo...
Comprehensive rehabilitation of the main pitch of the National Stadium Abuja has begun. Work on the stadium began last week, with the contractors who built the stadium Julius Berger PLC being in charge of the rehabilitation effort. Minister of Sports a...
The Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on Monday in Abuja said its meeting with LC2 on the 2013 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) broadcast rights had yet to yield results. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting between both si...
Togo’s football federation president has revealed he had to insist on Emmanuel Adebayor on the final Africa Cup of Nations squad since he has the final say. He said he had to over-rule the coach who had left out Emmanuel Adebayor and Kossi Agassa...
Telecommunication operator, Globacom, has called on the National team, Super Eagles to make Nigerians happy by putting up superlative performance during the forthcoming African Cup of Nations scheduled to begin in South Africa on Saturday, 19th January...
Skipper Joseph Yobo has assured that Nigeria will shine at the AFCON even though the Eagles have struggled in their preparations. Yobo told MTNFootball.com in an exclusive interview from the team’s training base in Faro, Portugal, that it was wor...
Cristiano Ronaldo has said he wants to stay at Real Madrid until his current contract runs out, but admits he is unsure what will happen beyond then. The former Manchester United forward’s deal at the Bernabeu expires in 2015, but he has been lin...
The 3rd edition of the Nigeria Police Games to be hosted by River State in Port Harcourt next month will gulp a whopping N500million. The amount is for accommodation, transportation, kits, allowance, prize money, medics, medals, day to day runnin...
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson praised his side’s “really intense” victory after they beat Liverpool 2-1 at Old Trafford. Robin van Persie and Nemanja Vidic gave them a seemingly comfortable lead, although Daniel Sturridg...
A superb second-half display from Chelsea saw the Blues run out 4-0 winners against Stoke and inflict a first home Premier League defeat of the season on the Potters. The first half lacked quality but a Jonathan Walters own goal right before the break ...
“Minnows”, “rank outsiders” or, at best, a hardly flattering “unknown quantity”. These are just a few of the comments flying around about Ethiopia’s prospects in next week’s African Cup of Nations in Sout...
A French motorbike rider competing in the Dakar Rally died on Friday after crashing into a Chilean police car, organisers reported. Thomas Bourgin, aged 25, was making his way to the start of the seventh stage when he hit the car, which was coming in t...
Reigning African champions Zambia wasted a myriad of scoring opportunities as they battled to a goalless draw against Norway at the Levy Mwanawasa stadium yesterday. In the final warm-up international before commencing the defence of the title Chipolop...