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Former Heartland defender, Chibuzor Okonkwo wants Super Eagles’ manager, Stephen Keshi to have a look in on him for the 2013 AFCON game. Though the door appears closed with Sunday’s resumption of camping by the invited domestic players, the...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has declared that the team has reached a crucial bend in the preparations for the Nations Cup championship in South Africa next year and pleaded with Nigerians not to distract the team from focusing on set goals....
Heartland defender, Orji Kalu, is injured and will take no further part in Nigeria’s pre-AFCON plans. The player was declared unavailable by Nigeria’s head coach, Stephen Keshi as the nation prepares for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Kalu...
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) Board on Monday suspended its Chairman, Victor Baribote, to enable the three-man committee investigating the crisis between the board and club owners complete its assignment. The suspension is contained in...
Gerd Muller must be sick of the sight of Lionel Messi. For the second time in the space of six months he has witnessed the diminutive attacker break one of his long-standing records. By the end of the 2011-12 season the 25-year-old had surpassed the pr...
The 7th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Premier League will hold today in Abuja after the Nigeria Football Federation moved it from Kano. The Congress will now up from 10 am at a yet to be announced venue. Acting Executive Secretary who confirmed this i...
The highly anticipated 2012 Kaduna international Polo Tournament galloped off Sunday December 9 at the famous Ahmadu Yakubu Polo Club House, Murtala Mohammed Sports Complex, Kaduna; With 32 teams from various polo clubs in Nigeria on parade. This year&...
The maiden edition of Glo Golf Tour West Africa ended on Sunday night in Otukpo, Benue State with a big bang as Globacom doled out N20 million cash, a brand new car, motorcycles, sewing machines and other prizes to pros and amateurs who won in the Gran...
Mikel, 25, joined the Blues in 2006 and has made 261 appearances, scoring two goals, as a defensive midfielder. "Chelsea seems like my home now because I have been here for over six years and I enjoy my time here. I come into the tra...
The Nigeria Hockey Federation (NHF) yesterday disqualified the Ekiti male hockey team from participating at the ongoing 18th National Sports Festival (NSF) over identity distortion and fielding of ineligible players. Walter Imoedemhe, the NHF Technical...
The Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) yesterday fined Delta and Kano states N50,000 each for using ineligible weightlifters at the going 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos. NWF Secretary Uche Onwumeh said that a female weightlifter, Bilikis Ot...
The Ondo State Sports Council has queried the coach of its female hockey team and the secretary of the state Hockey Association over the team’s disqualification at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Lagos. Bamido Omogbehin, Chairman of the s...
The House Representative Committee on Sports has expressed concern over the inadequate sports funding in the country by the government as reflected in the yearly budgetary provision of the National Sports Commission (NSC). The committee made the ...
Sunshine Stars of Akure head coach, Samuel Abimbola has expressed optimism that the team would surely pick a ticket to play in the continent at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season kickoff soon. Speaking ahead of the preseason t...
The National Chairman of Nigeria Beach Volleyball Federation, Engr. Musa Nimrod has fingered low patronage in the sport as the reason for its slow growth. He stated that until the government and relevant authorities concerned see sport as a viable econ...