Category: Sports

By Dare Akogun Defending Champion Nigeria must overcome the challenge of the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon to qualify for next year’s FIFA World Cup finals, following the quarter-final pairings that emerged on Sunday night after the Super Falcons bumped Burundi 4-0 in…

By Dare Akogun The wife of the Kwara State Governor and founder, Ajike Foundation, Ambassador (Dr.) Olufolake Abdulrazaq, has re-echoed the government’s commitment and huge investments in sports. Amb. Abdulrazaq also stated that the administration of Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq is committed to…

By Toyin Saheed All is now set for the kick off of the screening of players into a newly established Dikalo Football Academy, DFA in Ilorin, Kwara state, as Nigerian coaches ready to be part of the screening exercise.The Screening programme, which…

By Dare Akogun The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Ivory Coast in 2024, and not 2023, Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe said on Sunday. The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is…

Agency Reports The Super Falcons of Nigeria and Banyana Banyana of South Africa will go to war for three points, in the opening game of Group C of the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations which began in Morocco on Saturday. Nine-time…

By Agency Reports | Las Vegas Israel Adesanya retained his middleweight belt with a tepid unanimous-decision victory over Jared Cannonier in the UFC 276 main event on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena on the Vegas Strip. In the co-main event, Alexander Volkanovski…

Agency Reports Dub it ladies at war, and you will be right. Term it survival of the fittest and you will equally be right as the 14th edition of Women Africa Cup of Nations otherwise called WAFCON kicks off today in two…

Agency Reports Arsenal have ‘agreed personal terms’ with Leicester City midfielder Youri Tielemans, according to CBS reporter Ben Jacobs. The 25-year-old has been heavily tipped to make the switch to north London in recent weeks, yet a formal offer has failed to…