Dolphins Basketball Club has pulled out of FIBA Africa Zone Three tourney billed for October 21-30 in Lome, Togo, which also serves as qualifiers for the...
The League Management Company has written to the Nigerian Football Federation requesting the exclusion of 12 Referees from further officiating of NPFL matches pending investigations into...
The League Management Company has rescheduled the Nigeria Professional Football League game between El-Kanemi Warriors and Heartland to Saturday, September 17. The game earlier scheduled for...
Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann has opted to represent himself after splitting from his agent. The Frenchman, who was the Player of the Tournament at Euro...
Andy Murray will miss his grandfather’s funeral in order to play in Great Britain’s Davis Cup semi-final against Argentina. Gordon Murray, the father of Andy and...
Alexis Sanchez will be offered a two year contract extension to keep him at Arsenal until 2020. Arsenal forward Sanchez wants around £200,000-a-week which would make...
Zinedine Zidane has rejected criticisms that his Real Madrid side are relying on more than their fair share of luck and late goals to succeed on...
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte insists he has every confidence in David Luiz after confirming the Brazilian will start against Liverpool on Friday night. Luiz, the shock...
Bayern Munich’s chief executive, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, has revealed how uncertainty over their new manager cost Manchester United the chance to sign Renato Sanches. The 19-year-old joined...
Nigeria’s Orji Josephine and Flora Ugwunwa took Team Nigeria’s gold medals to eight on Wednesday after setting a new Paralympics and world record at the on-going...
Nine players and officials of Heartland Football Club of Owerri are now receiving treatments at an undisclosed hospital after their bus was involved in an auto...
UEFA elected Aleksander Čeferin as its new UEFA president on Wednesday, filling the office previously occupied by Michel Platini. Čeferin, 48, won 42 of the 55...
Wayne Rooney has been left out of the Manchester United squad to travel to Rotterdam for the Europa League tie with Feynoord on Thursday night. The...
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, has denied rejecting the accommodation given to him by the Nigeria Football Federation for his stay in Nigeria. “I never...
Favorites Bayern Munich and Barcelona cruised to 5-0 and 7-0 victories over Rostov and Celtic, respectively, to kick off this season’s competition in style. Robert Lewandowski...
The postponed Champions League Group C match between Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach has been rearranged for 7.45pm local time on Wednesday. It means the sides...
Dare devil armed robbers on Monday invaded the family house of Super Eagles midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi, in Jos brutalising the dad before carting away money and...
Nigeria’s gold medals increased to six at the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympics on Monday after Bose Omolayo and Ndidi Nwosu emerged victorious in the women’s -79kg...
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique has insisted that Lionel Messi will not face Celtic in the Champions League on Tuesday night unless the Argentine has fully recovered...
Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho and Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi will be seeking glory on Tuesday when the UEFA Champions League group-stage opening matches resume. Iheanacho who created...
Nigeria’s gold medals increased to five at the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympics on Monday after Ndidi Nwosu emerged victorious in the women’s -73kg in the powerlifting...
Crystal Palace’s Pape Souare was taken to hospital on Sunday following a car accident, the Premier League club announced Monday. The 26-year-old Senegal defender sustained thigh...
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said that “jealous people” will regret their words of criticism about Paul Pogba. Ibrahimovic scored in the 2-1 derby defeat...
Manchester United became the first British football club to earn more than half a billion pounds in a single year after announcing Monday total revenue of...
Stan Wawrinka became the oldest US Open men’s champion in 46 years when he defeated world number one Novak Djokovic to claim a third Grand Slam...
Watford of England striker Odion Ighalo led the goal rush of Nigerian players as they paint Europe with goals at the weekend. Ighalo gave the Watford...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has revealed that he has learnt to be cautious of Jose Mourinho’s counter attacking teams. Guardiola’s City executed a series of...
Diego Costa scored his second goal of the game from an overhead kick to earn Chelsea a 2-2 draw at Swansea on Sunday, which ended the...
ANGELIQUE Kerber climaxed a dream season at the US Open early Sunday morning, performing as the champion she has become through hard work, patience and a...
Nigeria’s Power lifter, Paul Kehinde, increased the country’s medal haul to four at the weekend after winning a second gold medal at the on-going Rio 2016...
Barcelona were stunned by minnows Alaves at Camp Nou as they stumbled to an embarrassing first defeat of the season. Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Andres...
Super Eagles skipper John Mikel Obi has rated his Rio Olympics football bronze medal same as winning the 2013 AFCON and UEFA Champions League with Chelsea...
Cristiano Ronaldo made a goalscoring return to the Real Madrid line-up as they ran riot in a 5-2 battering of Osasuna at the Santiago Bernabeu on...
Jose Mourinho believes that Manchester United were denied two penalties against Manchester City. Mourinho slipped to his first ;defeat as United manager on Saturday as City...
Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho is in cloud nine after helping his club, Manchester City defeat Manchester United in the Manchester derby on Saturday. City dominated...
When Stan Wawrinka won his first major title at the 2014 Australian Open against an injury hampered Rafael Nadal to become the oldest first-time grand slam...
Team Nigeria athletes started their quest for glory at the ongoing Rio Paralympics on a brighter note winning two medals on Friday. Powerlifter Latifat Tijani won...
Serena Williams crashed out of the US Open early Friday mormón in her semi-final defeat to Karolina Pliskova costing her a shot at a 23rd Grand...
Super Eagles and Manchester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho’s wonder goal against Tanzania during last Saturday’s AFCON 2017 qualifier has been voted as CNN Goal of the...
President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick has refuted claims in some section of the Nigerian media that the leadership of Confederation of African Football...
Tyson Fury’s sensational victory in November 2015 was Klitschko’s first defeat in 11 years Tyson Fury’s world heavyweight title rematch with Wladimir Klitschko has been confirmed...
Josep Maria Bartomeu, Barcelona’s president, says the club are interested in creating a women’s football team to play in America’s NWSL. Barcelona opened new offices in...
Novak Djokovic boasts a dozen wins in as many matches against Gael Monfils, but the world number one remains wary of the exuberant Frenchman heading into...
BACARY SAGNA has declared himself fit for Saturday’s eagerly-awaited Manchester derby. The City defender has missed his club’s last three matches due to a hamstring injury,...
Nicolas Otamendi scored a late equaliser as Lionel Messi-less Argentina fought back from 0-2 down to snatch a 2-2 draw against Venezuela in South America’s ,news,niger on...
Shkodran Mustafi has revealed that Mesut Ozil helped him opt for a move to Arsenal when the pair linked up with Germany for Euro 2016. The...
Chelsea captain John Terry has expressed his gratitude towards former Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson. The 35-year-old, who has spent his entire career playing for...
Super Eagles and Manchester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho has expressed confidence to step up and replace Sergio Aguero in this weekend’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford....
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri, who set a record as the first African to reach the Olympic Games quarterfinal stage in Rio as well as the first to...
Paul Pogba’s former Juventus team-mates have been left perplexed by the midfielder’s record-breaking transfer to Manchester United. Pogba’s move to Old Trafford was one of the...