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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted he is concerned about the gap developing between his spluttering side and the rest of the Premier League title contenders. Wenger’s team crashed to their second defeat of the season at Norwich City on Sa...
Former NFF President Sani lulu Abadullahi has envisaged lack of proper age documentation as the major problems of grassroot football development. The former FCT Director of Sports spoke in Gwagwalada Abuja at the weekend where he watched his pet team F...
Nigeria women league champion have maintained an unbeaten record in the ongoing final round of the Africa Champions Cup for Women holding in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire. After two games in the preliminary round of the continent’s biggest women cl...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has vowed to revoke all areas designed for sports centres now turned into parks and recreation centres. It said the move was to accelerate sports facilities for sports development. The Honourable Minis...
The selection of players for the Glo Soccer Academy will start in Nigeria tomorrow at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. The Benin screening of players to the Academy which has been described by Chief Segun Odegbami, ex-Nigerian international,...
The Federal Government has appealed to philanthropists and the organised private sector to spend part of their profits on youth development through sponsorship of sports. The Minister of Sports, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, made the appeal on Saturday in Il...
Nigeria’s lottery market can generate over N350 billion for the Federal Government annually if properly harnessed, the Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mr Peter Igho, said on Sunday. Igho told the News Agency...
The Federal Government has set aside N450 billion to be given as loans to farmers in the 36 states of the federation, Information Minister Labaran Maku has said. Maku made the announcement on Sunday at a town hall meeting at the Idris Kutigi Inte...
The Kano State Government is to spend N72.5 billion on the construction of roads this year. The state's Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning, Alhaji Mohammed Yahaya, made the announcement on Sunday while speaking with newsmen, shortly after...
Afenifere Leader, Chief Reuben Fasonranti, has advised governorship candidates who lost out in Saturday's election in Ondo State to accept their defeat as sportsmen. Fasonranti, who said they should wait for another term to ...
Supporters of Gov Olusegun Mimiko on Sunday trooped out in large numbers to the streets of Akure in celebration of the victory of the governor. Different groups of young men and women, who had gathered in groups in&n...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has said that it will soon start registration of products to check influx of substandard goods into the country. Dr Joseph Odumodu, the SON director-general, told the news Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interv...
Senate president David Mark has advised the government and people of Benue to remain peaceful during and after the forthcoming local government election in the state. Mark, who was represented by his wife, Helen, gave the advice at the burial of the la...
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on his declaration by INEC as the winner of the Oct. 20 governorship election in the State. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, said in ...
Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has been declared winner of Saturday's Governorship election having polled a total of 260,199 votes. Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, the INEC Chief Returning officer, said that the PDP candidate, Chief Olusola Oke, ...