Nigeria Football Federation’s head of technical committee, Christopher Green has hailed the LaLiga partnership as one that will expose players in the Nigerian league. Following the...
Manchester United’s new signing Paul Pogba is suspended for his side’s Premier League opener at Bournemouth on Sunday, England’s Football Association announced on Friday. The 23-year-old...
Lionel Messi has been named in Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers squad, less than two months after retiring from international football. Messi, 29, quit after Argentina’s Copa...
The embattled factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, Friday, laid the blame for the defeat of the party in the 2015...
Enyimba goalkeeper, Theophilus Afelokhai is optimistic they can get all three points in Egypt against Zamalek on Saturday in Cairo. Afelokhai is one of the five...
The application brought by an aspirant for the September 10 governorship election in Edo State, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, has been dismissed by an Abuja High Court on...
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi, Nnamdi Kanu, has denied any link with the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). This is even...
Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung has denied reports that Team Nigeria’s Captain, John Mikel Obi paid hotel bills accruing from the 8 unaccredited...
The Speaker of The House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has sent a passionate appeal to the national U23 team styled Dream Team V1, not to...
As part of the NPFL/ LaLiga partnership, Valencia CF and other Spanish clubs may play pre-season friendly matches in Nigeria soon. President of Valancia CF, Chan...
Following the non-arrival of the official kits by the Sports Ministry, Team Nigeria athletes have opted to shop for kits to compete in their various competitions...
Nigeria has hit a decline of 35 per cent in foreign direct investment (FDI), mostly brought about by the drop in oil prices. This is was...
Nigeria senior male basketball team, D’Tigers continued their dismal performance at the ongoing Olympics on Friday after they suffered their third defeat in the competition by...
Leicester City top striker Jamie Vardy has expressed confidence in forming a deadly partnership upfront with Super Eagles striker, Ahmed Musa, who joined the club on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received in audience HRM King (Dr) W.S. Joshua Igbugburu X, CON (JP) Ibenanawei of Borno Kingdom, Pioneer Chairman Bayelsa Council of...
Journalists, volunteers and athletes were left inside when a controlled explosion took place inside Carioca 1 Arena in the Olympic Park just minutes before the start...
The Federal Government has swung into action by directing the deployment of a national emergency response team, to prevent the spread of the polio virus following...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that he is crying for Nigeria because it has continued to celebrate corrupt people. The former chairman of the House of Representatives’...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has reviewed downward the listing and trading fees for securities listed and traded on the debt segment of its market. The...
There is palpable fear among bank workers in the country as the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed that they all declare their assets. The...
Police in Canada have revealed that the terror suspect gunned down at a house in Strathroy, a town about 225km west of Toronto was a supporter...
At least four people lost their lives and many more were wounded across the country after multiple bomb attacks hit Thailand some days after adoption of...
Nigerian Government on Thursday replied the United States (US) that its security challenges is worse than that of Nigeria. US government had recently claimed that at...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the party has no plan to sanction anybody over the raging budget padding allegations rocking the House of...
Republican nominee Donald Trump has denied being invited over by the Secret Service after he delivered what was seen as an incitement to violence against Hillary...
Latest reports emanating from Brazil revealed that players of the U-23 Eagles have skipped training in Salvador and are ready to boycott their quarterfinal match against...
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that he is praying for President Muhammadu Buhari to find oil in the North. He said that the...
The Ojuelegba axis of Lagos State witnessed a wild drama of some sort when some Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) officials got involved in a clash with...
The founding Chairman of DAAR Communications, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has warned that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stands the risk of going into extinction if...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has indicted a former Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan and a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,...
Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo has agreed a five-year contract extension at Watford. Ighalo had been a target for West Brom, who are keen to bring...
Panic and buck passing now trail threat of total blackout in Nigeria which may commence next week, following the refusal of government ministries, parastatals and agencies...
President Muhammadu Buhari has branded Nigeria as a poor country, blaming fall in oil price as the cause. He stated this on Thursday, at the Presidential...
Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), have engaged in a war of words over which party, is the cause of...
Enugu State Controller of Nigeria Prisons Service, Mr Isaiah Amariri, said on Thursday that it has re-arrested six of the inmates that escaped from Nsukka Prisons...
Nigeria’s quest for a medal in men’s football will be tested this weekend as the U-23 Eagles battle perennial rival, Denmark for a semifinal ticket after...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, had a closed door meeting for about an hour with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has resolved to probe contractors in the state who failed to carry out or complete the execution of their contract...
French authorities have arrested a 16-year-old girl in Paris for allegedly using a social media app to spread ISIS propaganda in a bid to further incite...
The Police Commissioner of Ebonyi State, Peace Abdallah while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki revealed that three police officers and the serving Coordinator of Ohaozara Development Centre,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited five directors and other top management staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to its office following an alleged missing N100 million in...
Colombia secured their place in the knockout stages of the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016 after a convincing 2-0 victory over Group B winners Nigeria...
A new militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), is said to have blown up a major oil trunk line in Isoko area of Delta...
The planned interaction with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, by the Special Investigative Panel, SIP, investigating allegations of budget padding did not...
In a move it said is to alleviate the sufferings of parents and students, the Federal Government has stopped the collection of development levies by the...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, Wednesday, came hard on the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to increase its Monetary Policy Rate, MPR,...
By Solomon Asemota (SAN) … Islamist Jihadists of the Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri Ethnic Nationalities, who are Negroid immigrants to Nigeria, are pushing the nation to an...
The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, has remained unrelenting in its claim that former President Goodluck Jonathan is the masked man behind the rampaging Niger Delta...
Argentina has been eliminated from the Olympic soccer tournament after a 1-1 draw against Honduras, which advanced to the quarterfinals along with Portugal. Two-time Olympic champion,...
The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria are still stranded in Abuja despite the move to relocate the team to Sokoto for the return leg of the African...