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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 …

Document outlines five commitments, including human rights, diversity and environmental protection, as well as 22 sustainability-related objectives Over 100 organisations consulted in development process to ensure robust understanding of concerns and opportunities In less than three years’ time, the FIFA World Cup™ will be held in the Arab world for …

The Nigeria Football Federation, is gradually killing the local league, with its penchance for hunting for players grown abroad, who never have any idea of how the national team plays. Several ex-internationals who do not want their names in print, accused the leadership of the NFF headed by Melvin Amaju …

After the unceremonious dismissal of Alhaji Shehu Gusau as the President of the Athletics Federations of Nigeria, it looks most likely that Nigeria might be banned by the international body. Already, Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, who has installed a stooge as the AFN President in the stead of Gusau, has …

I’ve had nearly six months to reflect on that fight in New York and that’s a lot of thinking time. Andy Ruiz Jr deserves all the credit as he was the better man on the night in the Big Apple, but losing made me understand I had to add something …