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Nottingham Forest of England striker, Sammy Ameobi got one of the goals that fetched his side a shock win in the English Championship, thereby taking them up to fourth place on the log and just a point behind promotion chasing Leeds United, megasportsarena.com reports. Ameobi opened scoring in his side’s …

Team Nigeria, on Saturday, won a record 9th consecutive title in Women’s Wrestling at the African Championships, claiming 6 gold and 4 silver medals on a day that Commonwealth champions Odunayo Adekuoroye (57kg) and Blessing Oborududu (68kg) both rose to World No. 1 and 2 respectively in the global rankings. …

D’Tigress of Nigeria Saturday booked a ticket to the basketball event of the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo despite losing to host-Serbia in their second group game at the ongoing FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament 64-70 points. Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock when they …

Six-time finalists Nigeria have been drawn to square up against Cape Verde, Central African Republic and Liberia in the penultimate round of the qualifying race for the 2022 Fifa World Cup finals in Qatar. At a simple but colourful ceremony inside The Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday evening, …

D’Tigers will compete in Group D alongside Mali, Rwanda and Algeria for a place in the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket Championship. The Olympic Games bound squad who narrowly lost the 2017 title to co-host, Tunisia will start the qualification campaign between the 23rd of November and 1st of December, 2020 at …

Nigeria club side, Garden City Panthers FC of Abuja, have acquired the services of former Portugal international, Manuel Matias as its Head Coach. The chairman of the club, Robinson Adakosa, confirmed this on Monday in an interview with the newsmen. Matias played 272 games in 13 seasons in the Primeira …

A stunning super-sub performance, assist and goal by Leicester City of England midfielder, Kelechi Iheanacho has sensationally found instant gain coming his way, as the out-of-favour lad has caught transfer attention from English Premier League newcomers, Aston Villa. Just two days after Iheanacho got off The Foxes’ bench to make …

Villarreal of Spain  winger, Samuel Chukwueze is bound to become the highest Nigerian transfer ever, should his club hold firm to their current valuation of the player at €63m and convince Real Madrid to buy him for that amount in the January transfer window. Although independent transfer data rates Chukwueze …

Shanghai Greenland Shenhua of China striker, Odion Jude Ighalo has been cited as the man to help his former club, Watford overcome their current woes and avoid relegation to the English Championship. Although Ighalo left Watford under a cloud three years ago, when his goals scoring form dipped, The Hornets’ …

Girondins-Bordeaux of France striker, Josh Maja made history in Ligue 1 on Tuesday night, as he became only the fourth Nigerian player to score a hat-trick in the top-flight league, with a lofty citation revealing that his feat ranks high in a span of 50 years. The 20-year-old former Sunderland …