Former Nigeria
Professional Football League (NPFL) Champions, Kano Pillars Football Club will now
compete at the seventh edition of Ogunjobi Gold Cup Pre-season Tournament after
they replaced Abia Warriors.
Nigeria’s foremost pre-season tournament is set to begin on Thursday, August 29 through Saturday, September 7, 2019, in Ilorin, Kwara State and Sai Masu Gida will now be...
President
of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali has charged the
country’s wrestlers and coaches to the 12th African Games in
Morocco to ‘give your best efforts’ when hostilities resume in the Northern
African Nation.
Igali
gave this charge at the unveiling ceremony of Nigeria’s wrestling team to the
quadrennial multi-sport event which took place in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
recently.
The Nigeria Football
Federation has expressed shock over the death on the morning of Sunday 18th August
2019, of a former Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League and 2nd Vice
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Oyuki Jackson Obaseki.
The 75 –year old
breathed his last on Sunday in Benin City, having left his giant footprints in
the sands of...
Enyimba’s head coach,
Usman Abd’Allah has stated that he is relieved with the return to fitness of
one of his strikers, Abdulrahman Bashir.
Bashir sustained a knee injury and only returned to training few days before the build-up to the first leg of their CAF Champions League preliminary round tie against Rahimo of Burkina Faso.
Kano Pillars will head to Kaduna on Sunday for closed camping at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium ahead of the return leg of their CAF Champions League preliminary round tie against Asante Kotoko of Ghana slated for Kumasi next week Sunday.
Sai Masu Gida defeated the Ghanaian side 3-2 in the first leg tie played...
Nasarawa United’s Ibrahim Sunusi has stressed that he is in the camp of Nigeria’s Under 23 team to learn after he teamed up to train with them on Thursday for the first time as the build-up to the Africa U23 Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sudan intensifies in Abuja.
Sunusi returned from his trip...
Nigeria’s male basketball team’s preparations for the FIBA 2019 World Cup in China is currently being threatened by lack of funds a top official of the team has asserted..The General Manager of the team, Musa Adamu disclosed this while he was asked by journalists about the team’s plans for the World Basket Ball Championship.
Niger Tornadoes will travel to Conakry, Guinea for the CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round, return leg tie against Santoba without their influential defender Collins Nwaeze who is currently injured.
The 2019 Aiteo Cup finalists lost the first leg 2-1 in front of their fans at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna and they need a...
Niger Tornadoes will play two friendly games in Lagos before embarking on the trip to Conakry, Guinea ahead of the second leg of their CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round tie against Santoba.
Tornadoes were dazed 2-1 before their fans in Kaduna last weekend by the Guinean team and they must strive to better the...
An unknown Nigerian player, Samuel Pilla Atavti is on the verge of completing a sensational swoop to CAF Champions League champions, Esperance of Tunisia from neighbouring club, Stade Gabesien.
Atavti was discovered from a grassroots tournament in Gboko almost two years ago organized by Moses Orkuma who is a former Flying Eagles defender and...
