The National Technical Director (NTD), of the Nigeria Football Federation, Augustin Eguavoen has revealed that his mission at the secretariat of Nigeria’s football governing body will be to fashion out a brand of football style peculiar to Nigeria.Fielding questions from SportingSun in Abuja recently, the former Super Eagles captain and chief coach, dismissed the insinuation […]
A member of Nigeria’s Under 23 squad who plies his trade in Europe, Joshua Akpudje, has revealed that his road to success was rough and tough. Featuring on the BCOS TV Weekend Morning Sports programme Breakfast Sports Show, from his base in Europe via Skype, Akpudje said things were so bad and discouraging at the […]
• Nigerian referees on duty Five-time world champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria, and the Young Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire will file out for the first match of Group B of the West African Football Union (WAFU) B Tournament this evening with both teams looking to pick up the three points at the Lome’s Stade […]
Beats Kamaru Usman, Shevchenko, others Nigeria-born, New Zealand-based professional mixed martial artist, Israel Adesanya, has emerged International Fighter of the Year at the 12th World MMA Awards. He brushed aside stiff challenge from top sports personalities, including his fellow countryman, Kamaru Usman, to win the award. Others nominated for the award were Aung La N […]
They are being billed as the biggest fights in British boxing history and it is estimated that the two contests between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua could generate between £300 and £500 million, reports The Scotsman. Joshua’s win over Kubrat Pulev on Saturday night cleared the way for the super-fights to happen and talks will […]
Buhari, Dare, Glo hail world champion Anthony Joshua is far from fazed by Tyson Fury’s attack on him on Saturday night, saying it was ‘good to hear’ the Gypsy King talking up a fight between the pair, reports metro.co.uk. Joshua knocked out Kubrat Pulev on Saturday night at Wembley Arena, defending his WBA, WBO, IBF, […]
Nigeria’s hope of qualifying for the 2021 African U-20 Nations Cup in Mauritania took a big hit yesterday when the Flying Eagles lost 0-1 to Black Satellites of Ghana in their second match of the on-going WAFU Zone B championship in Benin Republic. Nigeria needed a win or at least a draw to stand a […]
• NCF unveils Sri Lankan as national team coach Nigeria’s new cricket national team head coach and high performance manager, Asanka Gurusinha, has revealed that the country has enormous potential that could become world-beaters in the near future. Gurusinha, who was unveiled to the Nigerian cricket community yesterday in Abuja by a deputy director at […]
Former Gombe Football Association Chairman, Ahmed Shuaibu Gara-Gombe, has said that the rescheduling, again, of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) till next week was a result of having wrong people managing the league, which he said was inimical to the growth of the country’s football. The 2020/2021 NPFL season earlier rescheduled to start this […]
He is just 10 but Nigerian Yusuf Babangida Aliyu is already turning the eyes as a sensation with Berliner AK 07 in the German Regionalliga Nordost in the states of Berlin. Born 4 April 2010 in Berlin, Yusuf holds dual citizenship as a Nigerian-German; and was actually born into a footballing family with his father […]