Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets, will depart from their final training camp in Tirol, Austria on Thursday, 2nd August for the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup, with high level of confidence after scoring seven goals and conceding none in two friendly games. The 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup silver... Read more
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced that it will offer retired Super Eagles’ safe hands Carl Ikeme coaching education as a goalkeeper trainer and then absorb him into the technical crew of the Senior National Football Team. NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi disclosed at the weekend that the... Read more
Youssef Abdel-Aziz and Marwa Alhodaby are current African Junior Champions and at the 3rd African Youth Games holding in Algiers, the Egyptian stars confirmed their supremacy in the singles event of the boys and girls categories. In the boys’ event,Youssef Abdel-Aziz who was the flag bearer for Egypt at... Read more
Nigeria’s U20 boys, the Flying Eagles, hammered their counterparts from Mauritania 5-0 on Saturday at the Agege Stadium in Lagos to qualify for the 2019 Africa U20 Cup of Nations. The team won by 6-1 aggregate for the event billed for Niger Republic. Having missed the 2017 finals in... Read more
The Nigeria U15 National Team, nicknamed Future Eagles, has been drawn to play Morocco, Djibouti and Libya in the football tournament of the 3rd African Youth Games that commenced in Algiers on Thursday. The draw held on Wednesday put the Future Eagles in the same pool as Morocco, with whom... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong Nigeria’s queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and other members of Team Nigeria’s 4×200 quartet that won Gold at the 2016 IAAF World Relay in the Bahamas will be inducted into the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Hall of Fame. This accolade will be bestowed at... Read more
The efforts to lift the fortune of table tennis among girls received a boost in Kenya as a Japanese firm – San Ei Corporation donated 50 tables on July 14, 2018. According to the media officer of Kenya Table Tennis Association(KTTA), Charity Muturi, the donation is part of the... Read more
The contingent of Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, departed Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania on Sunday morning following a 1-1 draw with their Mauritanian counterparts in the first leg, final qualifying round for the 2019 Total Africa U20 Cup of Nations. Abubakar Ibrahim put Nigeria in front after only seven... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong The Delta State government and the Local Organizing Committee’s intention to drive the CAA Asaba 2018 African Senior Athletics Champions as a private sector championship will get more flesh on Thursday as a fund-raising dinner will be held at the Grand Hotel Asaba. Mr. Jim Ovia... Read more
Felix Lartey is an integral member of the Ghanaian team to the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia and has also featured for the West African nation in several continental tournaments including the African Games, but the Ghanaian star has described the annual ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open as... Read more
