Two Nigerian champion teams, World Cup -winning Coach Emmanuel Amuneke, and star players Azubuike Okechukwu and Victor Osimhen are in line to be honoured at the Glo-Caf African Football Awards on Thursday evening. The annual showpiece, which rewards African football players from across the world who had excelled in the preceding year, will take place […]Read More
Coach Samson Siasia has affirmed that no player is guaranteed a shirt in his squad for the men’s football tournament of this year’s Olyimpics, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The former Super Eagles’ manager has also disclosed that the African champions will commence preparations for the Rio Olympics in the first week of […]Read More
Despite not being supported in Nigeria by corporate companies, a Shanghai-based Sengled Optoelectronics Company Limited will on Wednesday January 6 at its annual exhibition in United States celebrates Aruna Quadri. According to the release by the company, the annual exhibition which involves customers across America will have Quadri signing autographs, taking pictures and playing exhibition […]Read More
Football deserves “nothing less” than a rebuilt and fully accountable Fifa, says acting president Issa Hayatou. World football’s governing body has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since summer 2015. As a result of criminal and internal investigations new reform measures were approved by Fifa in December. In the open letter published on Friday, […]Read More
Former junior international is expected resume as coach of the Abia-based club in the upcoming season next year.Former Sunshine Stars coach, Kennedy Boboye has been unveiled by Abia Warriors as their new coach ahead of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) next season. “I can assure you that Boboye has agreed terms with the management […]Read More
Garanganga survived a tough encounter with tournament’s number one seed, Aldin Setkic in a semi final match that lasted more than two hours on Friday. The Zimbabwean, who crashed out in the semi final of Futures 3, won the match in 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-3 to qualify.Zimbabwe tennis player, Takanyi Garanganga is the only African player […]Read More
Yaya Toure has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2015. The 32-year-old Cote d’Ivoire midfielder becomes only the third player, after Nigerians Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, to receive the honour twice. Football fans voted for Manchester City’s Toure, who first won in 2013, ahead of Yacine Brahimi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew […]Read More
One of the candidates for next year’s FIFA presidential election, Prince Ali Ibn Hussein, on Thursday made a stop –over in Lagos to see the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick. Both men spent some time together at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport before Prince Ali, a Jordanian and an influential figure in […]Read More
Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger will be banned for three matches after accepting a Football Association charge of violent conduct. He was charged after catching West Ham’s Winston Reid with his left arm as they waited for a free-kick in Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Old Trafford. The incident was not seen by the match officials […]Read More
2015 World Champion MA Long, and 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion LIU Shiwen are the respective 2015 ITTF Male & Female Table Tennis Stars at the 2015 ITTF Star Awards. The 2015 ITTF Star Awards was held on 9 December at the Patio da Gala in Lisbon, Portugal, to honor and celebrate the table tennis […]Read More