All sports stories from Naija – Latest from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Nigerian Super Eagles and Super Falcons preparations for the FIFA World Cups, and the Nigeria athletes compete at the Commonwealth Games, Olympics and the IAAF World Championships.
Nigeria and Italy drew 2-2 in an international friendly played at Fulham's Craven Cottage stadium in London on Monday night. Giuseppe Rossi gave the Azurri an early lead when he raced into a pass from Balotelli in the 7th minute, before chipping the ball over an advancing Austin Ejide, who manned the post in place of Vincent Enyeama. Bright Dike…
Nigeria became the first African side to reach the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ after a 2-0 victory over Ethiopia in Calabar confirmed a 4-1 aggregate play-off win.
The Golden Eaglets became the only team to win the tournament four times, surpassing the achievements of Brazil, crowned champions on three occasions.
Manu Garba, the Nigerian under-17 boys football team’s Head Coach, on Thursday listed 21 players to represent the country at the 15th FIFA U-17 World Cup finals.
Stephen Keshi, says his players are not under any pressure in their final Group F African qualifier for Brazil 2014 World Cup match in Calabar on Saturday.
Former Long Jumper and assistant technical director of AFN, Yusuf Ali says straight life-bans for any one caught using performance enhancing drugs will help cleanse athletics of cheats
Former Nigerian athlete Falilat Ogunkoya-Omotayo has joined other Nigerians to applaud the heroics of sprint sensation Blessing Okagbare
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) on Friday announced the selection of 28 athletes and nine officials for the 11th Africa Junior Athletics Championships.
A new national record of 63.79m was set by Queen Obisesan in the Women’s Hammer event at the fourth leg of the AFN/Solid Works Golden League Meet held at the Sports Complex of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State on Saturday.
Katsina Spotlight FC has received N73 million for the prosecution of its campaign in the Nigeria Professional Football League this season
Optima Sports Management International (OSMI) awarded a package of live audio visual broadcast rights for Free-to-Air Barclays Premier League matches, for seasons 2013/14 – 2015/16 in the Sub-Saharan Africa region including South Africa.
The National Sports Commission (NSC) on Tuesday in Abuja supervised elections into executive positions of 21 national sports federations against the 22 earlier planned.
Kenyan Moses Masai won the first ever IAAF-certified road race in Nigeria held on Saturday May 4, at Okpekpe, Edo State, which attracted seven hundred top athletes from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria issued a communique at the end of its meeting with club owners in Abuja on Tuesday April 30th still insisting that clubs and state AAAs must re-register their athletes for the 2013 Athletics season.
Athletics Federation of Nigeria suspends the Golden League meetings, the entire athletes and hand three-year bans to the leaders of the athletes' welfare protests.