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Quadri Aruna, Nigeria’s top table tennis player, has exited the International Table Tennis (ITTF) World Cup after losing by 1-3 (12-10, 11-9, 11-9, 3-11) to Portuguese Marcos Freitas in the group stage. The Men’s singles game on Wednesday at the Galaxy Arena, Macao, China, saw the Portuguese claim the first three sets but a comeback ...
Nottingham Forest’s battle for survival is threatening to go down to the wire as Nuno Espirito Santo’s side prepare for a crunch clash this weekend. The Reds have five games left to beat the drop, starting with a trip to face relegation rivals Everton on Sunday. They will go into that match at Goodison Park ...
A brace from Kylian Mbappe and a strike from Ousmane Dembele saw Paris Saint-Germain thrash Barcelona 4-1, in the Champions League quarter-final second leg tie in Spain. It was a night to forget for Barcelona as Xavi, defender Ronald Arajuo, and even goalkeeping coach Jose Ramon de la Fuente sent off. The LaLiga giants came ...
WBC heavy-weight champion Tyson Fury has insisted that there is no bad blood between him and Anthony Joshua and he would be willing to share a meal with him to prove it. The two boxing titans have spent years rivalling each other building towards a Battle of Britain bout and Joshua revealed he will use ...
Manchester City moved to the top of the Premier League as lowly Luton were eased aside 5-1 at the Etihad while Newcastle thrashed Tottenham 4-0 on Saturday. Amid a gruelling schedule, Pep Guardiola could hardly have wished for a kinder fixture in between the two legs of his side’s Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid. ...
Bayer Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface says he is looking forward to helping his team record a win against Werder Bremen at home, which will see them crowned Bundesliga champions for the first time in the club’s history. The 23-year-old striker came off the bench late on to score with a trademark header in stoppage time ...
The Board of Nigeria Football Federation has appointed former U17 World Cup winner, Manu Garba as Head Coach of the Nigeria U17 boys, Golden Eaglets. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at NFF announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Garba had, in the same role, led the Golden Eaglets to win the FIFA ...
1996 Olympic gold medalist, Emmanuel Amuneke, has said that although he would love to coach the Super Eagles if given the opportunity, he was not desperate for the job. Amuneke, a former Super Eagles player, said this while addressing journalists in Owerri on Tuesday. The former Nigeria U-17 national team coach and former coach of ...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons has qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Falcons beat Bayana Bayana of South Africa 1-0 on aggregate in the two-legged encounter to seal qualification for the first time in 16 years. The nine-time African champions defeated their South African rivals 1-0 in the first leg at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium on ...
Former Nigerian International, Bright Omokaro, has charged the Super Falcons to adopt team play to defeat Banyana Banyana of South Africa in the second-leg of their Olympic qualifiers tonight. The Super Falcons defeated Banyana Banyana by a lone goal in the first leg of their qualifying match at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja. Omokaro told ...
Premier League club side, Everton, has been hit with a two-point deduction for another breach of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR). Everton was charged again in January, alongside Nottingham Forest, for breaching PSR rules over a period ending with the 2022/23 season. Forest was handed a four-point deduction and has appealed against ...
Bayer Leverkusen striker, Victor Boniface will be back in the squad for Wednesday’s German Cup semi-final against Fortuna Dusseldorf following a three-month injury absence, coach Xabi Alonso said on Tuesday. The 23-year-old Super Eagles forward underwent surgery on an adductor muscle injury in January after being injured while preparing with Nigeria for the Africa Cup ...
By Austine Emmanuel, Kaduna The House Committee Chairman on Sports, Federal House of Representatives, and Member, representing Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency, Hon. Ekene Abubakar Adams has donated N20 million to Kaduna teams ahead of the Nationwide League One, (NLO) competition slated for next month across various centers in the country. The Lawmaker announced the donation during ...
Ecobank Group, a pan-African financial services organisation, has appointed key executives to strengthen its leadership and effectively drive its Growth, Transformation and Returns (GTR) strategy. The Group Communications Manager of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Ms Christiane Bossom made this known in a notification sent to the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) on Thursday in Lagos. According ...
Nigeria’s Nworie Emmanuel in on Saturday won a bronze medal in the 77kg in Greco-Roman event at the ongoing African Game in Accra, Ghana. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nworie defeated Hattingh Johannes of South Africa 11-0 superiority, after what seemed to be a controversial semifinal for the Nigerian Wrestler. Speaking after ...
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua floored Francis Ngannou three times in two rounds at Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena on Saturday in a knockout win that put him right back in the reckoning for another title shot. The big British-Nigerian sent the 37-year-old Cameroon-born former UFC heavyweight champion, a two-fight professional boxing novice, to the canvas ...
Some boxing enthusiasts on Thursday in Lagos, have canvassed support for Nigeria-British born Anthony Joshua to beat French-Cameroon born Francis Ngannou in a 10-round heavyweight clash on March 8 in Riyad, Saudi Arabia. The respondents told newsmen separate interviews that Joshua will emerge winner over Ngannou by a unanimous decision. Abayomi Oyeleye, a boxing coach ...
According to UK publication, The Independent, English Premier League giants, Manchester United, are preparing an offer of €110m as they hope to land Nigeria international, Victor Osimhen, during the next transfer window, The PUNCH reports. With Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS Group taking control at Old Trafford, the Premier League giants are eyeing a massive overhauling ...
Africa’s highest ranked table-tennis player, Aruna Quadri on Wednesday won a second medal for Nigeria at the ongoing 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana. This was after the 35-year-old Quadri fell 4-3 to Egypt’s Omar Assar in the final of the men’s table tennis singles event. The contest between the two rivals lived up to ...
Ex- international, Segun Odegbami, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to look inward for an indigenous coach to handle the Super Eagles. Odegbami who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos, said that Nigeria needed a better hand to handle the Super Eagles. ...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says the government is ready to give the Lagos State University and the University of Lagos maximum support, to ensure the success of the upcoming All African University Games, which will be co-hosted by the two institutions from September 20 to 29. Sanwo-Olu made the pledge during a courtesy visit ...
Super Falcons’ Coach Randy Waldrum has urged his team to be more clinical in front of goal. He said this was critical, if they intend to beat their South African counterparts to the final round qualification ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympics. The nine-time African champions pipped Cameroon’s Lionesses 1-0 in a crucial second leg ...
Super Eagles head coach, Randy Waldrum has revealed the reason behind his decision to bench Asisat Oshoala in Monday’s 2024 Olympic Games qualifier against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon. The reigning African women’s Player of the Year was expected to start the game but Waldrum instead named Tenerife star, Esther Okoronkwo in the starting ...
