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July 4, 2022 No Responses

African Super League Kicks Off In August 2023

President of Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, on Sunday announced that the confederation’s Executive Committee has resolved that the African Super League will kick off in August 2023. Motsepe who said the league would be launched in Tanzania...

January 12, 2022 No Responses

Air Peace CEO To Eagles: If You Win AFCON Cup, I’ll Give You N50m; Gifts N10m For Goal Scored In Opening Match Against Egypt

Air Peace Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Allen Onyema, in his characteristic culture of philanthropy and nationalism, has promised to give the Nigerian Super Eagles N5O million, if they win the ongoing African Cup of Nations, which kicked off on...

December 26, 2021 No Responses

AFCON 2021: Eguavoen Lists Osimhen, Ighalo, Musa In 28-Man Final List

Head Coach Augustine Eguavoen has released his final list of Super Eagles players for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), with recuperating striker Victor Osimhen making the cut. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Fed...

September 29, 2021 No Responses

Salah, Mane, Osimhen, Ndidi Top Most Valuable African Player List With €250M

Some of Europe’s biggest footballing stars call the African continent their home and many proudly represent their home nations in internationals. The collective talent of African stars have risen in the last couple of decades and so have th...

March 9, 2021 No Responses

Nigeria Retains African Under-19 Boys Volleyball Title

Nigeria’s under-19 boys on Monday retained their title by defeating their Moroccan counterparts 3-0 on the final day of the 2020 African Nations Volleyball Championship in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that, in the match played at...

February 27, 2021 No Responses

Two Nigerian Cyclists Begin Training In Cairo

Tombrapa Grikpa and Ese Ukpeseraye, two Nigerian cyclists, have started training in Egypt for the African Continental Cycling Road Race Championship which begins on Tuesday, an official said on Friday. Mohammed Bashir, the national coach of Cycling Federation ...

February 17, 2021 No Responses

Nigeria Gets Hosting Rights For U-19 Boys Africa Volleyball Championship

The President of the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB), Bouchra Hajij, on Tuesday, announced that Nigeria would host the 2020 Boys U-19 African Nations Volleyball Championship. This was conveyed in a letter signed by the President of CA...

June 8, 2020 No Responses

Concerns About Dying CAF Champion League

By Abiodun Mohammed — About two months after the outbreak of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns imposed to curtail its spread in Africa, countries across the continent are gradually opening their economies. Sportsmen and women are also warming up...