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.
Bnei Yehuda of Israel goalkeeper, Dele Aiyenugba has played down talks that he is under pressure to fill in for axed Nigerian number one, Vincent Enyeama ahead of today’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying against Guinea. According to Supersport.co...
Defending champion Rafael Nadal reached the semi-finals of ATP Tokyo with a 7-6(6) 6-3 victory over Santiago Giraldo. The top seed will face Mardy Fish in the last four after he beat Bernard Tomic 6-7(5) 6-4 6-1. Nadal had won all three of the pr...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will go all out for victory today against the visiting Syli National of Guinea at the Abuja Nationale Stadium as the race for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea is set for a thril...
Anzhi Makhachkala striker, Samuel Eto’o has admitted money was the determinant factor in his move to Russia from Inter Milan of Italy. He agreed he was influenced by the money even though he insisted that anyone would have made the same decision....
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has charged the Super Eagles to rise to the occasion and defeat their Guinean counterparts in tomorrow’s Nation’s Cup qualifier. Senator Mark also redeemed the N1.6 million pledge he made to all t...
The Group Managing Director of LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPERS Group, Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene will tomorrow alongside top government dignitaries and corporate moguls tee-off the very prestigious Corporate Golf Tournament at the Ikoyi Club, Lagos. Organisers, MEDI...
National U-23 coach, Austin Eguavoen has charged the 30 invited players for the first phase of the Dream Team V camping exercise, in preparation for the upcoming CAF U-23 championship which serves as the London 2012 Olympic qualifier to count themselve...
The Super Falcons have been promised a 100 percent increase in their match bonuses if they qualify for next year’s Olympic Games. The Falcons will travel to Cameroon for the second leg of their 2012 Olympic qualifier on October 22, with a slim 2-...
Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi will be fined 5,000 dollars for missing the Tuesday deadline to report to the Super Eagles' camp in Abuja. Team Media Officer, Mr Colin Udoh, said on Tuesday in Abuja that Eagles officials were unimpressed with t...
Former Technical Committee member of the Nigeria Football Federation, and proprietor of the Early Start Weekend Football Academy, Barr. Dudu Orumen has lambasted NFF president Aminu Maigari for travelling during the last Federation Cup final held in La...
Team Nigeria will today know their fate as they storm the Polish embassy in Abuja after tabling visas request to honour this year’s World Scrabble Championship. The event is billed for Warsaw, Poland. The team is expected to storm the Polish emba...
Former Super Falcons coaches, James Peters and Rolandson Odeh hold different views on the invitation of off-form goalkeeper, Precious Dede to the senior national team’s camp. Dede is among the 27 players invited to camp by coach Eucharia Uche for...
The two most successful clubs in Italian football, AC Milan and Juventus go head-to-head today in a game which used to be regarded as ‘the glamour tie’ of the Serie A, before the Calciopolli scandal (which saw Juventus accused of match-fixi...
Hope of Nigeria hosting the African Cup of Nations in 2013 has been dashed. Consequently, Nigeria will not be able to host the continental fiesta following the decision of the Confederation of African Football to allow a swap between Libya and S...
Former marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has shoved aside retirement insisting that he is not going anywhere but targeting success at the 2012 Games in London. The 38-year-old Ethiopian dropped out of his second succe...