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August 12, 2024 No Responses

Minister Apologises For Nigeria’s Olympics Performance

The Minister of Sports Development, John Enoh has apologised to Nigerians over the poor outing of the Nigerian team at the just-concluded 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In a statement on Sunday, Enoh said “The Olympic Games, Paris 2024, have ended, a...

August 8, 2024 No Responses

USA Defeats D’Tigress In Olympic Quarter-Final

Nigeria’s D’Tigress suffered a 74-88 quarter-final defeat to the U.S. women’s basketball team at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Wednesday night. Nigeria, who have made physical play a trademark, looked anything but intimidated by the powerhouse Americans as ...

July 17, 2024 No Responses

Chery Partners ILOT On UEFA EURO 2024 Championship

Carloha, sole representative of Chery vehicles in Nigeria has announced its strategic partnership with ILOTBET, a leading sports business company. The partnership is centered around the ‘Predict and Win’ promo for the UEFA EURO 2024 Champion...

January 28, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Defeat Cameroon, Qualify For Quarter-Final

Super Eagles of Nigeria reached the quarter-finals of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations after Ademola Lookman scored twice to beat Cameroon 2-0 in the last 16 in Abidjan. The Atalanta forward opened the scoring nine minutes before the break...

January 15, 2024 No Responses

Ecobank Group Unveils Brand Campaign At Africa Cup of Nations

Ecobank Group on Sunday unveiled its new brand campaign, ‘A BETTER WAY | A BETTER AFRICA’ at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Côte d’Ivoire 2023 (AFCON). A statement explained that Ecobank is a proud official sponsor of the...

October 4, 2023 No Responses

Abuja MoU Secretary General Wins Independence Day Uyo Kitty

The Secretary General of Abuja MOU, Captain Sunday Umoren has won the Independence Day celebration Golf kitty in Uyo Akwa Ibom State. Captain Umoren who plays handicap 28 ended the rounds 76 net to lift the trophy. A media consultant Tony Obot c...

September 10, 2023 No Responses

Coco Gauff Wins US Open

American teenager Coco Gauff fulfilled the potential she has long promised by landing her first Grand Slam title with a fightback win over Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open final. BBC report that Gauff, seeded sixth, started slowly in front...

August 26, 2023 No Responses

Super Falcons Now 32nd In FIFA Ranking

NIGERIA’s Women Football National team, the Super Falcons, have moved eight places up to become 32nd in the world and first in Africa in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...