• I’ll Break Him Internally, Usman Vows• It’s Sad My Father Won’t Be At Cage Side To Watch Me’ Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion, Nigerian-born New Zealand based Israel Adesanya has tipped fellow countryman, Kamaru Usman for victory as he defends his welterweight title against arch-rival Jorge Masvidal today. The UFC 251 battle, which holds […]
Jurgen Klopp hailed Liverpool’s desire not to ease up after clinching the Premier League title as two goals from Mohamed Salah kept the Reds on course for a record points tally with a 3-1 win at Brighton on Wednesday. The champions move onto 92 points with three wins from their final four games enough to […]
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta insists unhappy Mesut Ozil will not be selected just because he has a huge salary. Ozil is reportedly the highest-paid player in Arsenal history on a weekly salary of £350,000 ($433,000). But the German World Cup winner has rarely justified that contract and is yet to play a minute of football […]
Odion Ighalo’s goal for Manchester United against Norwich City in the FA Cup on Saturday means that the ex-Nigeria striker has equalled a club record that has stood for 95 years, reports goal.com. In netting against the Canaries, Ighalo became only the second player in the club’s history to have scored in each of his […]
Former Super Falcons Coach, Godwin Izilien, has urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to halt search for a foreign coach for the senior women national team. He believes that hiring an indigenous coach for the Falcons would reduce the financial burden on the federation, especially now that COVID-19 has affected the economy negatively. Izilien wondered why […]
‘PPG system was best possible option’ The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has declared that it has not settled on the system to be used in deciding the 2019/2020, saying it was still consulting widely to arrive at the best possible option. There were reports on Monday that the Point Per Game (PPG) system has been […]
The permanent secretary at the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Gabriel Aduda, who is the chairman of the Ministerial Task Force set up by the Minister, Mr. Sunday Dare, to restore sanity to the National Stadium, Lagos, will lead his members to a fact-finding tour of the facility today. According to the […]
After over three decades, the legendary professional wrestling career of Mark Calaway, better known as WWE superstar The Undertaker has officially come to an end. In the final episode of his WWE Network docuseries Undertaker: The Last Ride, the multi-time champion explained that he feels it’s time to walk away from the ring, saying he […]
Legendary Nigerian striker, late Rashidi Yekini has been rated a better striker than former Black Stars of Ghana forward Anthony Yeboah according to a poll organised by World Football Governing body (FIFA), yesterday. On FIFA’s verified Twitter handle, football fans were asked to cast their votes on who among Yekini and Yeboah was a better […]
‘Nigeria-born Bahraini world champion is innocent’ Salwa Eid Naser’s legal representatives, Dr Emir Crowne and Matthew Gayle, have denied charges of a whereabouts violation brought against her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), reports jamaica-gleaner.com. The Nigeria-born Bahraini quarter-miler, formerly known as Ebelechuku Agbapuonu, retained the services of the Trinidadian attorneys after being investigated for […]