AT the Presidential Retreat for Sports organized by the Federal Government last November, virtually everybody at the forum admitted that the neglect of grassroots sports development had taken its toll on Nigerian Sports. The occasion afforded...

No Nigerian expected a different result. No Nigerian entertained even the faintest possibility of an upset in Nairobi. Many warned but very few expected anything but the defeat that the Super Eagles handed their Kenyan opponents last Wednesday in...

THE Vice Chairman of Warri Wolves FC, Kenneth Nwomucha, has called on the League Management Company (LMC) to invoke the relevant rules governing the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) on Akwa United following an alleged attack on the...

IN what looks like a departure from the usual fanfare associated with fans club, Skye Bank and FC Barcelona Fans Club has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on sports development and community-based programmes.

At the singing of the...

Super Eagles former winger cum striker, Victor Nosa Ikpeba, belongs to the golden and nostalgic era of Nigerian football when the national teams were a force to reckon with in African football. Fondly called the ‘Prince of Monaco’ by his...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has, once again, reaffirmed his commitment to grassroots sports development in the country, saying getting the talents early would help Nigeria to build world champions.

Speaking while launching the Nigeria Academicals...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS operator, Globacom has congratulated the Super Eagles for recording an important away win against the Harambee Stars of Kenya in the World Cup Qualifying match played on Wednesday in Nairobi.

In a statement released on...

THREE junior athletes based in the United States of America are expected to hit Team Nigeria’s camp in Port Harcourt by June 18 to join others in preparing for the fast approaching 11th Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) Africa Junior...

• Palmgren plans to upset Nigeria

SUPER Eagles hero in Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier against Harambee Stars in Nairobi, Ahmed Musa, says it would be foolhardy to underrate Namibia when both teams meet in a World Cup qualifier next...

CSKA Moscow star, Ahmed Musa, was the hero Wednesday in Kasarani, Nairobi, where the Super Eagles defied all the antics of the Harambee Stars to emerge 1-0 winners in the Group F Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifier.

Musa, a double winner in the...

• AFN picks junior athletes for Africa/World championships

THE list of foreign athletes for the 2013 Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Golden Grand Prix Warri, Delta State, is on the increase, as top runners from Ethiopia, Kenya and...

THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has fixed June 11 as the date for the commencement of the 2013 edition of the Federations Cup round of 64 matches.

The federation, which conducted the draws for the round of 64 matches last week in Abuja...

Insists Federation needs restructuring

FORMER Chairman of the Gombe State Football Association, Shuaib Gara Gombe, made a stunning revelation, disclosing that the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) spends over N1 billion yearly to offset the...

THE IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja, will soon cease to be the exclusive club in the FCT following the emergence of a new club, the Goodluck Jonathan Golf Club, located at the Nigeria Airforce (NAF) base along the Nnamdi Azikiwe...

THE Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, will today come alive as President Goodluck Jonathan officially launches Rhythm N’ Play, an initiative of the Nigeria Academicals Sports Committee (NASCOM), which was inaugurated by the Minister of...

OVER 65 players are contesting for the ultimate diadem at the fourth Prime Atlantic Closed Squash tournament, which kicked off on Monday at the Ikoyi Club 1938 squash section. The tournament is a collaboration between Ikoyi Club 1938 and Prime...

THE Super Eagles of Nigeria Wednesday afternoon beat the Harambee Stars of Kenya  1 – 0 in Nairobi in a crucial 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match to top Group F.

The goal only goal of the match was scored by Ahmed Musa.

The other...

IT is one of the most important games of his Nigerian coaching career, but Super Eagles gaffer, Stephen Keshi, is calm ahead of the date with Harambee Stars.

Keshi, who is leading his African champions to a crucial World Cup qualifier today in...

THERE was drama at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Tuesday morning after Football Kenya Federation’s (FKF) CEO, Micheal Esakwa, instructed security details to detain the visiting Nigerian national team.

According to the Daily Nation of...

FOR the third time in three seasons, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has berthed in the final of the Portuguese table tennis league after inspiring G. D. Toledos to victory over GDSR Juncal in the semi-final tie.

Quadri has played in every final of the...