UDINESE have signed Golden Eaglets striker, Isaac Success on a record-breaking four-year deal worth 1.4 million Euros, MTNFootball.com has scooped.

A top source, who was part of the deal, told MTNFootball.com, “Udinese have signed Success on a...

AHEAD the Afrobasketball Championship scheduled for Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on August, the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) Sunday opened the men’s training camp, which is expected to run till May 30.

In the camp are 12 players from...

WEIGHTLIFTING Federation President, Chibudum Nwuche has thrown his weight behind new Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Gbenga Elegbeleye, but he wants the former lawmaker to prove his critics wrong by lifting reposition...

Minister of Sports/Chairman, National Sports Commission,  Bolaji Abdullahi, penultimate week inaugurated the boards of 20 federations in Abuja with a charge to them to work towards realising the task of winning five gold medals at the next...

CHELSEA midfielder, John Obi Mikel, has told Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, that he would be available for next month’s Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Kenya and Namibia, as well as the Confederations Cup scheduled for...

COACH Stephen Keshi may invite new players to replace those, who have withdrawn from the Super Eagles’ games in June due to injury, an official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has disclosed.

The Eagles, who play a friendly against...

SUPER Eagles star, Ogenyi Onazi, has told MTNFootball.com he hopes to win the cup in Italy tomorrow at the expense of local rivals, Roma.

Lazio will tackle Roma Sunday and Onazi, who has shrugged off an injury to be in the squad for the final...

Over the years since John Chiedozie made his name with Tottenham Hotspur in the 1980s, Nigeria has been aptly represented in the major European football leagues. From the pioneer steps of Stephen Keshi in the Belgian League to last season when two...

THE UEFA Champions League 2012/13 season comes to a glorious denouement Saturday at the Heineken Champions Planet with the final match of the competition between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

Over a span of three months, visitors to...

IT is Thursday night. I have never been more depressed with the state of my country than I am at the present. These past couple of months I have observed unprecedented developments in the Nigerian political landscape that continue to assume...

SAPELE was a beehive of activities yesterday when Dom Domingo clashed with Edjekota Secondary School in the third place match of the 2013 Delta State Governor’s Cup. But officials of the state’s sports council say Tuesday’s final game in...

IT'S going to be an all-out war for control of the remote this weekend as SuperSport jampacks just about everyone’s favourite sport into two days of viewing.

Football fans will get to see 10 grueling months of the football season come to a...

THE biennial table tennis championship for secondary schools in Ojo, Iba and Awori Local Councils of Lagos tagged “Omoluabi Talent Hunt” has been concluded with outstanding schools getting sports equipment.

The three-day championship was...

 

AS part of its nationwide grassroots sports development campaign, National Academicals Sports Committee (NASCOM) will on June 6 gets the Presidency backing for its noble initiative, when President Goodluck Jonathan launches Rhythm N’ Play in...

FLYING Eagles Coach, John Obuh has dropped several key players, including skipper, Abduljaleel Ajagun and striker, Umar Aminu, from the squad billed to participate in next week’s Toulon Tournament.

Others dropped are goalkeeper, Jonah Usman...

ON Monday May 27, the Children’s Day, the Campos mini stadium will come alive when four teams battle in the final games of the maiden edition of the MRS Under-12 Kids soccer competition.

For the top prize, Damilola Tailor FC of Mainland will...

FOR making use of their MasterCard debit card in transactions, the company has rewarded four cardholders with an all-expense-paid trip to Wembley, England, to watch this year’s UEFA Champions League final match between FC Bayern Munich and...

TWO athletes from Lagos State’s Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme were part of the athletes that received monetary rewards from President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan for making Nigeria proud at the recently held African U-18 Athletics Championship in...

IT was time for music, dance and unbridled fun in Asaba, Delta State when the third edition of Etisalat’s Easy Starter fiesta, which featured a five-aside football competition, berthed at the St Patrick’s School Complex recently.

Easy Starter...

HAKEEM Busari, who was confirmed Thursday as 3SC’s head coach, has promised a continental ticket for the Oluyole Warriors.

“We hope this year to win a continental ticket, which we have been craving for a long time,” said Busari, who has...