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.
Lazio youngster Ogenyi Onazi has vowed to fight for a place on the final squad to the 2013 AFCON after his Eagles debut against Liberia. The versatile midfielder came on for the last 10 minutes in a 6-1 trouncing of the Lone Star in Calabar on Saturday...
Host of the 2013 Nigeria Polytechnics Games (NIPOGA), Federal Polytechnic Bida has said that it will require not less than N1.49billion to stage the competition successfully. The President of NIPOGA council and Rector of the host institution, Engineer ...
Telecommunications company, Globacom, has commended the Super Eagles for its outstanding performance against the Lone Star of Liberia on Saturday in Calabar. Glo in a statement gave kudos to the Super Eagles for not only defeating the Liberians c...
Bruce Rufai, younger brother of former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, said on Tuesday that his brother was now in a stable condition after he suddenly collapsed on Monday evening in Lagos. Bruce told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lag...
Technical Director of Akwa United, Charles Bassey, has revealed that the club expects newly employed manager, Justin Tenger, to secure a place in Africa at the end of the 2012/2013 season. The experienced Tenger, who took Niger Tornadoes to the lower d...
Senegalese Sports Minister El Hadji Malick Gakou, and up to thirty people were injured after riots broke out during a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Dakar. The crucial match was abandoned late in the second half, with the government official a...
Football legend Zinedine Zidane has revealed that he is open to coaching France one day. The 40-year-old confirmed his intention to pursue the necessary qualifications, and responded positively about the possibility of training les Bleus in the future....
Shortly after winning the 13th edition of the NNPC/Chevron Junior Masters tennis championship in Lagos, junior tennis sensation, Umaru Balami has again won the Alex Ekwueme junior tennis tournament. The championship which was staged at the Enugu Sports...
Super Eagles coach who watched the Golden Eaglets beat their Guinean counterpart 3-0 yesterday to qualify for the U-17 World Cup has predicted the team is good enough to win the World Cup. He said this while winger and one of the goal scorers in the 6-...
Nigeria Super Eagles trounced Liberia 6-1 in Calabar on Saturday to have qualified for next year’s African Nations Cup (AFCON 2013) competition 8-3 on aggregate.
Nigerian legend Nwankwo Kanu, was the surprise presence at the Super Eagles closed door training session on Thursday evening at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar. Spotting his trade mark African plaited hairdo, Kanu was in company of his younger ...
Super Eagles skipper, Joseph Ikpo Tambarin Yobo, spent over one hour on phone with Head Coach of the team, Stephen Keshi to confirm his unavailability for this weekend’s crucial tie against the Lone Star of Liberia, the coach confirmed on ...
The Liberia Football Association has continued to maintain secrecy over their team, Lone Star’s arrival for Saturday’s 2013 African Cup of Nations final qualifying match against the Super Eagles. NFF General Secretary, Barrister Musa Amadu ...
Manchester United and Real Madrid sit atop of the global shirt sale charts with 1.4 million shirts sold per season on average over the past five years. United and Madrid are two of the three teams that have managed to surpass the one million mark betwe...
A 25-man delegation of the U-17 National Team of Guinea will arrive in Lagos on Friday morning, for Sunday’s 2013 African U-17 Championship qualifying match against Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets. The contingent will fly into Lagos aboard an Arik...