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.
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has again insisted that there will be no partiality between home-based stars and those based abroad in the selection of the final team that will face Liberia, October 13 in Calabar. “I know that 1...
As the crunch game between the flying Eagles and South Africa’s Amajita, draws nearer, Kenneth Omeruo of Dutch Eredivisie club, ADO Den Haag is expected to lead a slew of foreign-based professionals to camp for the 2013 Africa Youth Championship ...
It has been confirmed that Argentina will be competing in the 2nd Edition of Copa Lagos which takes place on the 14th – 16th of December 2012. The Argentines have huge Beach Soccer pedigree. Along with Brazil, Argentina is one of only two South A...
Lionel Messi has insisted that he cares about winning trophies with Barcelona more than about individual glory. The Argentine attacker is widely seen as one of the best players in the history of the game, but the 25-year-old is more concerned about how...
Nigeria's Sports Minister Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi advocates a new course for Sports Development in Nigeria and admitted that poor preparations marred the country’s chances at the London 2012 Olympics games.
Halimatu Ayinde scored her second brace of Azerbaijan 2012 as Nigeria U-17 women's team finished top of Group A following a 3-0 victory over Colombia, a result that sends the South Americans home from the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four games and fined £220,000 after being found guilty of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand by the FA. The Blues star announced his retirement from international football with Engl...
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...
The commencement of the Flag-off of the movement of the Torch of Unity across the 35 states of the federation and Abuja to signify the official count-down to the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos, tagged ‘EKO 2012’ begins today. Accord...
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...