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.
Dream Team V captain, Lukman Haruna has charged his foreign-based colleagues invited for the 2012 Olympics playoffs not to let the nation down. He spoke ahead the CAF U-23 championship, which serves as the final qualifying series for the London 2012 Ol...
Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has explained his decision to seek court redress over his dismissal by the Nigeria Football Federation as coach of NigeriaHe also reflected on the game that cost him his job, Nigeria’s 2-2 draw with Guinea...
Former captain Stephen Keshi was announced as the coach of the Super Eagles on Wednesday by the Nigeria Football Federation- NFF, following Samson Siasia’s sack for failing to qualify the Super Eagles for the Nations Cup next year for the first t...
Manchester United gave Sir Alex Ferguson the victory he would have wanted above all on the day he celebrated 25 years in charge of the club, but it was not the emphatic result some might have expected as a Wes Brown own goal proved the difference in a ...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has concluded plans to peg new Eagles handler’s pay at N5m that was given to sacked coach Samson Siasia. The NFF executive board jettisoned a recommendation of the technical committee for new coach Stephen Ke...
Samson Siasia has been fired as Nigeria coach after he failed to qualify the Super Eagles for the Nations Cup next year in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon for the first time in 25 years. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have ordered a committee ...
Nigeria’s beach volleyball men team A and B, yesterday brightened their chances of playing at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a two straight set defeat of their Burundian counterpart in the opening match of the zonal phase in round two of the ...
Embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia will today know his fate regarding the Super Eagles plum job. After failing to qualify Nigeria for next year’s Nations Cup, the NFF technical committee met and forwarded their recommendations to the exe...
With the continuous expression of frustrations over the falling state of football in Nigeria, erstwhile board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Imo State FA chairman, Amanze Uchegbulam has asked football authorities to look inward and...
Nigeria national U-23 coach, Austin Eguavoen will today leave for Italy in continuation of his tour of Europe for players that will prosecute the upcoming Eight Nation CAF U-23 championship billed for Morocco next month.Eguavoen, who left the country l...
The Nigeria Football Federation assistant secretary general technical, Mr Emmanuel Ikpeme may have given an inkling as to what may be the fate of embattled Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia this week. The NFF chieftain yesterday said the coach should co...
Former Super Eagles star and assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi has hit out at the Nigeria Football Federation for delaying or playing ‘politics’ with the sack of Samson Siasia even after the coach failed to deliver on the mandate given him. ...
Troubled Super Eagles’ head coach, Samson Siasia has declared that he is not ready to accept a pay cut. Siasia currently earns N5 million per month as Nigeria manager. But his failure to lead the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of...
For the sixth time, the Federal High Court Abuja yesterday failed to sit on a substantive matter instituted against the former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Sani Lulu Abdulahi and three erstwhile officials, Amanze Uchegbulam, Taiw...
There are strong indications that Super Falcons coach, Eucharia Uche will not continue as head coach of the team. This is because her failure to qualify the team for next year’s Olympics has made it difficult for the Nigeria Football Federation (...