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.
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will today take on Cameroon in the second leg qualifier of the London 2012 Olympics. The Super Falcons are heading to Yaoundé with a slim 2-1 advantage and need a draw to qualify for the Olympics. Nigeria has participated ...
With the recent release of Sunday Time 2011 Rich List and Forbes 2011 highest-paid soccer players, the below are Africa’s top five richest footballers of 2011. Samuel Eto’o Estimated net worth:$40 millionAnnual salary: £7million2010 E...
When the Nations Cup kicks off in January next year in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria and South Africa will not be participating. Not because they are not good enough but because they did not qualify. With these five tea...
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, making his first start of the season, appeared to have won the derby when he fed a free-kick through a hospitable-looking United wall in the lunchtime kick-off. However, having failed to threaten for the majority of th...
The bitter taste of the Super Eagles non-qualification for the African Nations Cup 2012 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea is still very hard to swallow for many proud supporters of Nigerian football. It has thrown up another reason for the not too passion...
Anger, disappointment, heartbreak and sorrow; were what Nigerians felt after the Super Eagles failed to qualify for the nations Cup for the first time since 1986.Nigerians watched in disbelief as the Guineans scored an injury time equaliser to effectiv...
Wrestling is one of the three disciplines in which Pakistan has won a medal in Olympics when Mohammad Bashir claimed bronze in the 1960 Rome Games.Hockey has been the most successful sport of Pakistan at Olympic level as the country has so far bagged t...
The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) at an emergency meeting on Saturday night issued a query to Super Eagles’ head coach Samson Siasia. NFA’s Chief Media Officer Ademola Olajire who disclosed this in a p...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria, yesterday, drew 2-2 with the Syli Stars of Guinea in a game the Eagles were supposed to win. They lived up to the ugly ‘super chickens’ tag by failing to step up to the occasion.Here are five...
As part of his new transformation agenda, the minister of sports, Alhaji Yusuf Sulieman, has declared that he is ever ready to bring total transformation into the sports sector. In this interview, he explains why the sports sector is in need of changes...
Second-half goals from Anderson and Welbeck helped a nervy Manchester United overpower Norwich City and grab their first win in three games to maintain their top spot on the premier league table. The Premier League new boys defended solidly for mu...
The second phase of camping for Nigeria’s Super Falcons which was slated for Otta has been put off.The inability of invited players to report to camp on time, and the fact that the foreign-based players will fly directly to Abuja after thei...
Roger Federer has not won a Grand Slam since the Australian Open in 2010The seven majors that have been won since then were split between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, both of whom are now ranked higher than he is. Federer needs another major title,...
Disappointed Super Eagles' fans on Saturday in Abuja showed their bitterness by vandalising some parts of the stadium and by calling for removal of Coach Samson Siasia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Super Eagles dr...
Even before the release of the new world ranking on Monday which placed former world number one and golf legend, Tiger Woods, out of top 50, there are many who were actually aware that the American is in the midst of some kind of ultimate decline based...