Category: Sports

Anthony Joshua Knockouts Helenius
August 13, 2023 No Responses

Anthony Joshua Knockouts Helenius

Heavyweight Anthony Joshua spectacularly knocked out Robert Helenius with one punch in round seven, after boxing tentatively in the first half of the fight at London’s O2 Arena. BBC report that the 33-year-old Briton – who was jeered by fans...
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Air Peace To Honour 1976 Olympics Team, 1980 Green Eagles
July 10, 2023 No Responses

Air Peace To Honour 1976 Olympics Team, 1980 Green Eagles

Forty-seven years after Nigeria led other 27 African countries to boycott the 1976 Olympic Montreal Games in Canada, the Team Nigeria athletes who were denied lifetime opportunities to become Olympians and medalists will be honoured on July 28, 2023. Also,...
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World’s Five Highest-Paid Athletes
June 22, 2023 No Responses

World’s Five Highest-Paid Athletes

For years, the world’s highest-paid athletes have been making hundreds of millions of dollars through their heavy contracts and endorsements, but 2023 set a new record.  The Middle-Eastern cash flowing into some of the world’s highest-paid spo...
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Manchester City Lifts Champions League Trophy
June 11, 2023 No Responses

Manchester City Lifts Champions League Trophy

Manchester City have taken a scenic and often desperately painful route to winning the Champions League but the journey reached its destination at last as they were finally able to get their hands on the giant trophy with victory over Inter...
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Hyundai, Kia Renew FIFA Partnerships
June 1, 2023 No Responses

Hyundai, Kia Renew FIFA Partnerships

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation on Wednesday jointly announced the renewal of their longstanding partnerships with FIFA through 2030.  City Business News report that the renewed agreement welcomes Group subsidiaries Boston Dynamics and Supernal ...
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FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy Arrives In Nigeria
March 26, 2023 No Responses

FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy Arrives In Nigeria

The original FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy to be competed for by 32 teams from across the globe from July 20 to Aug. 20 arrived in Abuja on Saturday The trophy arrived in Nigeria after being taken to the three...
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Senegal Lift Under-20 AFCON Trophy With 2-0 Defeat Of Gambia
March 12, 2023 No Responses

Senegal Lift Under-20 AFCON Trophy With 2-0 Defeat Of Gambia

The Young Teranga Lions of Senegal on Saturday at the Cairo International Stadium, Egypt, defeated their Gambia counterparts 2-0 to lift their first-ever Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophy. Goals from forward Sulaymane Faye and midfielder Mamadou Ca...
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Focus On World Cup, Sports Minister Charges Flying Eagles
March 8, 2023 No Responses

Focus On World Cup, Sports Minister Charges Flying Eagles

The Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, has charged the Flying Eagles to put behind Monday’s semi-finals loss to The Gambia at ongoing Under-20 Africa Cup of Nation (AFCON) and focus on the World Cup. Dare gave the...
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Nigeria Beat Mozambique To Reach Under-20 AFCON Quarterfinals
February 26, 2023 No Responses

Nigeria Beat Mozambique To Reach Under-20 AFCON Quarterfinals

The Flying Eagles beat Mozambique 2-0 in Ismailia on Saturday to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The Nigerian under-20 male side scored two sumptuous goals in the first half through Samson Lawal and...
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FIFA Bans Four Uruguay Players
January 28, 2023 No Responses

FIFA Bans Four Uruguay Players

Uruguay’s Fernando Muslera and Jose Maria Gimenez were hit with four-match bans by FIFA on Friday.  While Diego Godin and Edinson Cavani were suspended for a game each after they confronted the referee following their World Cup match against Ghana.&nbsp...
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Potter: Managing Chelsea Is the Hardest Job In Football
January 13, 2023 No Responses

Potter: Managing Chelsea Is the Hardest Job In Football

Chelsea manager Graham Potter has described running the team as “probably the hardest job in football”.  Potter however said he was not looking for sympathy as he tries to salvage the English football club’s season amid an injury crisis and...
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Buhari Mourns Pele
December 30, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Pele

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele who died on Thursday.  The world’s greatest-ever football player succumbed to death after suffe...
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Bright, Ahube, Emerge Top Winners As 4th NLNG Golf Classic Ends 
December 12, 2022 No Responses

Bright, Ahube, Emerge Top Winners As 4th NLNG Golf Classic Ends 

The 2022 edition of the NLNG Golf Classic ended in Bonny, Rivers on Sunday with Victor Bright and Nnenna Ahube clinching the top prize in the men and ladies categories.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLNG...
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FIFA President Accuses West Of ‘hypocrisy’ 
November 20, 2022 No Responses

FIFA President Accuses West Of ‘hypocrisy’ 

FIFA  president, Gianni Infantino has accused the West of “hypocrisy” in its reporting about Qatar’s human rights record, on the eve of the World Cup.  In an extraordinary monologue at a news conference in Doha, Infantino spoke for ...
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