Nigeria’s FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup tournament ended with a 2-1 loss as Japan claimed bronze. Desire Oparanozie’s excellent free-kick with just under 20 minutes of...
The Rivers Commissioner for Sports, Mr Fred Igwe, has said that the state will host the 5th National Schools Sports Festival in October. He said in...
Kano Pillars have won the 2012 Nigeria Premier League after Ocean Boys were expelled from the Nigerian Premier League for falling foul of regulations. The Bayelsa-based...
Barely 48 hours after Rivers Angels FC qualified for the semi-final of the 2012 Women’s Federation Cup, the Club has restated its readiness to win the...
President Goodluck Jonathan was at the Abuja National Stadium on Wednesday to watch the Super Eagles’ evening training session as they prepared for tomorrow’s Nations Cup...
Some 2.7 million Paralympic tickets have been sold – beating targets by 200,000 and predicted sales by £10m. Chief executive of organiser Locog, Paul Deighton, said...
Nigeria came back from the Olympics without a single medal, but their Paralympians have picked up a clutch of medals, including several golds. Why are they...
1 China 64 54 49 167 2 Russia 29 25 20 74 3 Great Britain 27 36 33 96 4 ...
Some coaches and ex-internationals yesterday described the Falconets’ 0-2 defeat to the U.S. in the first semi-finals of the ongoing FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cup in...
As the 2011/2012 Nigerian Premier League season wobbles to an end this weekend and bogged down by poor funding, absence of sponsors and poor spectators, some...