FOOTBALL fans, who trooped to the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba, to watch their team against 3SC of Ibadan, went home fulfilled as Dubic Lager beer thrilled them with lot of fun and entertainment during the star match on Sunday.

Dubic, which...

THE Nigerian national Under-19 team, which defeated Sierra Leone by four wickets at the on-going Pepsi ICC-Africa U-19 World Cup qualifying series in Uganda, suffered another setback yesterday when they lost to Kenya in their third match by 142...

• Team departs for U.S. Tuesday

SUPER Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi is expected to drop about five players as the team prepares to depart Frankfurt today for the international friendly match against Mexico in Miami, Florida...

SPAIN Coach, Vicente del Bosque has warned his players to be ready for the battles of their lives if they hoped to add the Confederations Cup to the World Cup and European Championship’s titles in their custody.

Spain is drawn in the same group...

TWELVE home-based players started camping yesterday in Abuja ahead of the African Nations Cup Afrobasketball for men.

The players invited from Savannah Conference are Stanley Gumut of Markmentors, Ohiero Michael (Markmentors), Abubakar Usman...

STILL baffled by the way the federations’ elections were conducted, Proprietor of Dodan Warriors Basketball Club, Sam Ahmedu, and the zonal representatives have vowed to use all means available to correct the anomaly during the election.

Ahmedu...

SUPER Eagles star, Victor Moses and his Chelsea team-mates, Fernando Torres, Oscar and Juan Mata have described the Samsung Dream the Blues Campaign has a worthwhile experience for kids.

The quartet, who are Dream the Blues ambassadors were...

THE Fifth Chukker Polo Club, Kaduna, now wears a new look waiting for the arrival of horses and players billed to feature in this year’s Access Bank/UNICEF Charity Shield polo tournament, the organisers have said.

The competition is in its...

THE National Sports Commission (NSC) and some stakeholders in Nigerian football during the Senate Committee on Sports’ public hearing at the weekend kicked against the passage of the bill seeking full autonomy for the Nigeria Football Federation...

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...