La Liga will use virtual images of stands in television broadcasts with added ‘fan audio’, produced by the makers of the Fifa video game, when it...
BY NEIL SHEFFERD Papa Massata Diack has requested the postponement of a trial where he and his father are among the defendants, as two of his...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA After 37 years of existence, the Lagos City Stadium is on this date, 7 June 1973 demolished. It had existed as the birthplace...
World number one Novak Djokovic described the strict hygiene restrictions under which the US Open is likely to be played as “extreme” and a cap on...
As other top leagues in Europe are joining the German Bundesliga to resume, France’s Ligue 1 being the only one of Europe’s top five major leagues...
Organisers of the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics have decided not to hold a large scale event marking the one year countdown to the Games because of...
The Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja will soon get a facelift as the final stage of the agreement with Dangote Group is almost concluded. According to...
The Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN) has finalised preparations for the online registration of all badminton players in the country. The Federation is liaising with the...
The 2020 Champions League final could be played in Lisbon at Benfica’s Estadio da Luz, rather than Istanbul where the game was originally scheduled to go...
Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday (June 2) that one Swiss investigation into his handling of a television contract has been dropped, but FIFA insisted that it...
The Football Association has promised to take a ‘common sense approach’ to players involved in gestures promoting anti-discrimination messages following the death of George Floyd in...
Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has insisted that he has a free hand to select his players, insisting nobody can dictate to him on whom to...
While CAF which region is populated by Blacks has remained silent, FIFA, UEFA have both expressed their support for players who wish to protest against racism...
Nigeria’s Ola Aina could be in action if selected by Torino in the first Serie A match which kicks off on June 20 as Torino face...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON The former head of the Burundi National Olympic Committee (BNOC), Evariste Ndayishimiye has been elected as the President of Burundi after winning the...
BY LIAM MORGAN. A senior official at the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has rejected complaints over the nation’s selection process for Tokyo 2020 and insisted places...
Serie A has confirmed that top-flight football will return to Italy after a three-month coronavirus-enforced absence on the weekend of June 20-21. Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora...
Spanish football’s top-flight will resume after a three-month pause due to the coronavirus pandemic on June 11 with the local derby between Sevilla and Real Betis,...
The UEFA Champions League final could be moved from Istanbul as the Turkish city will struggle to make up the cost of hosting the event without...
British Police want at least six Premier League matches and any Liverpool title clincher to be played at neutral venues when the season resumes in a...
Project Restart’s most emphatic breakthrough came on Thursday as it emerged that June 17 is the date the Premier League will begin again. Manchester City will...
The Premier League will return with a crunch double-header on Wednesday, June 17. The opening games of Project Restart will see Manchester City take on Arsenal...
The BBC will broadcast four live matches when the Premier League returns next month – the first time in 32 years that the public-service broadcaster will...
Italy’s top-flight Serie A soccer league has been given the go-ahead to restart on June 20 following the novel coronavirus stoppage, sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora said...
The Premier League season is set to restart on June 17, and not June 12 as it was initially proposed. The restart is coming up three...
The trial of former IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) President Lamine Diack, who has been accused of corruption, influence-trafficking and money laundering, has been moved...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has charged the Covid-19 Edo 2020 National Sports Festival Committee members to work as quickly as possible...
There appears to be hope for Odion Ighalo in his bid to complete the current Premiership season with Manchester United. According to Daily Mail in the...
Gernot Rohr will continue to be on the saddle when Super Eagles resume their quest for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification as well as...
Premier League clubs voted unanimously on Wednesday (May 27) to resume contact training as the English top-flight took a significant step towards restarting in June. The...
Africa’s flagship sports competition, the Africa Cup of Nations scheduled to hold in January next year is set to be postponed till the next year, just...
As the countdown continues to the June 12 possible restart of the Premier League, clubs will reportedly use colour-coded warning systems to inform themselves whether they’re...
Premier League clubs will vote on Wednesday (May 27) over whether to move to the second phase of Project Restart as they intensify efforts to return...
FIFA has banned Yves Jean-Bart, the President of the Haitian Football Federation (FHF), from all football-related activities for 90 days as it investigates claims of sexual...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA It is 22 years since Alhaja Mulikat Balogun, wife of Nigerian football legend, Thunder’ Balogun passed on. On this date, 25 May 2007,...
French Ligue 1 side Lille OSC has offered bereaved Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen, a private jet to bring him back home and be with his family...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reached out to Super Eagles’ forward, Victor Osimhen who lost his father. Reports have it that Pa Patrick Osimhen, 80,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. What has become the most captivating single-sport event was born on this day 92 years ago. It was on 24 May 1928 at...
England’s Premier League on Saturday (May 23) said that two more individuals from two different clubs have tested positive for coronavirus, just three weeks from a...
Spanish soccer’s top-flight division La Liga can return to action from June 8 after being disrupted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said...
The European campaigns of several English clubs have been thrown into chaos after the government confirmed a two-week quarantine will be imposed on UK arrivals. The...
Thomas Bach has acknowledged that Tokyo 2020 would be cancelled should the Olympic Games not be held in 2021, while the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President...
A top South Korean football club accused of using sex dolls to fill empty seats in its stands will face disciplinary proceedings this week, K-league officials...
UEFA officials are preparing to ditch two-legged ties in their competitions this season before hosting a new ‘final four’ tournament in Istanbul in an attempt to...
The Premier League said on Tuesday (May 19) that six people from three different clubs had tested positive for Covid-19 out of a sample of 748...
Even as Nigeria’s Inter Milan player Victor Moses posted on twitter, a picture of himself training alone on the a field, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC)...
The Premier League says it will support a trophy presentation for Liverpool if they are crowned champions and it is safe to do so. Jurgen Klopp’s...
An 11-man committee has been set up to inspect all health facilities for the postponed National Sports Festival in Nigeria. That was one of the key...
The Nigeria Football Federation has received notice from the Enugu State Football Association that Chidi Ofo Okenwa, a Member of the NFF Executive Committee who died...
BY BASSEY IBIATISUHO Liverpool FC loanee and Nigerian international, Taiwo Awoniyi on Sunday found the back of the net for the first time since May 17...
Premier League clubs will return to training in small groups from Tuesday (May 19) after the latest stage of “Project Restart” was approved on Monday. Clubs...
As the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development under the leadership of Sunday Dare continues to engage relevant stakeholders with a view to move sports forward...
The global pandemic, COVID-19 has forced the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) to cancel the 2020 edition of the Challenge...
The Premier League hopes “Project Restart” will move a step closer to becoming reality on Monday (May 18) when clubs hold an emergency meeting to vote...
FIFA is set to announce the host of the 2023 Women’s World Cup on June 25, despite the postponement of Congress to September. The winning bid...
BY MIKE ROWBOTTOM World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says meetings may have to take place in empty stadiums as the sport attempts to return to normality...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The financial burdens of Enyimba FC and Enugu Rangers may be lessoned as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) begins the disbursement of...
The British government has signalled that English Premier League clubs must make free-to-air televised matches more widely available and plough money into the sport’s grassroots if...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) expects the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to cost the organisation $800 million (£656 million/€741 million), $150 million (£123...
Nigeria plans to tap into the various geographical advantages it has by shifting attention into long distance races, which East Africa and other high-altitude regions of...
As parts of efforts to key into the global benefits of E-Gaming Sports and make Nigerian sports more viable, the Minister for Youth and Sports Sunday...
Switzerland’s attorney-general, who is conducting investigations into alleged corruption at FIFA, will be hauled in front of the Swiss parliament’s judicial committee, the body said on...
Clubs in the second to fourth tiers of English soccer should not return to training before May 25 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the English Football League...
For the first time since 1991 the glamorous World Footballer for the Year ceremony will not hold. The awards which was a brain child of France...
FIFA will hold its first virtual Congress this year after the annual gathering of its membership in Addis Ababa was postponed because of the coronavirus crisis....
The 2023 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup in The Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will be held from August 25 to September 10. Dates for the...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is opposed to the idea of Premier League resuming in the capital next month while the Covid-19 pandemic continues to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Professional football now exists in Nigeria through the efforts of some notable personalities who have long been forgotten. Greater agitation for professional football...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA In 30 years of professional league in Nigeria, only one top scorer ever established himself in the national team, the Super Eagles. ...
Premier League players will be prohibited from tackling and pitches will have to be disinfected when clubs return to training as part of plans to prevent...
Premier League clubs face having to pay a huge refund to broadcasters even if they manage to complete the coronavirus-disrupted season behind closed doors. Broadcasters would...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The bold step towards professionalism was however the setting up of an eight-man Professional Football Implementation Committee in February 1989. Its terms of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA On this date, 12 May 1990, professional football kicked off in Nigeria. It was a product of many years of agitations. In the...
The postponed African Athletics Championships in Algiers will be held before the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next year, the head of the Confederation of African...
Nigerian players in the Italian Serie A will soon be back in action along with the others as the Italian government announced that clubs canreturn to...
Premier League clubs are hoping they can avoid having to play the remainder of the season at neutral grounds, chief executive Richard Masters said after a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In October 1959, Tesilimi Balogun and Dan Anyiam, both star players, had to miss qualifying matches for the 1960 Olympic Games. Nigeria were...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria Professional Football league, currently lockdown like most others around the globe clocks 30 this Tuesday, 12 May. It was on 12...
The UK Government has given the Premier League the green light to restart the season from 1 June. Football in the UK has been shut down indefinitely in...
Manchester City’s parent company has added a ninth club to its global portfolio with the purchase of Belgian second-tier side Lommel SK. It has been reported...
La Liga president Javier Tebas has said he hopes that Spanish football will resume on June 12 after being halted for over three months due to...
Warring English Premier League clubs will meet on Monday (May 11) with tensions mounting over the divisive ‘Project Restart Plan’ to finish the season amid the...
Five players in Spain’s top two divisions have tested positive for Covid-19 since clubs began testing players and staff members last week, organising body La Liga...
The name Frank Soo may not easily ring bell in Nigeria. But he was the English coach that Sir Stanley Rous who later became FIFA President...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Government interference in the running of football in Nigeria has been a recurring decimal for close to three decades. Yet, it was not...
Football teams will be allowed to use five substitutes when play resumes after the coronavirus pandemic, the sport’s lawmaking body announced on Friday (May 8). The...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare has vowed to recover all the missing memorabilia that reportedly disappeared from the Hall of Fame that was...
Three days after he passed on after a battle with leukemia, members of the board of Nigeria Football Federation and other prominent figures in the Nigeria...
The Super Falcons star, Asisat Oshoala secured her maiden league diadem with the Barcelona. In the aftermath, she said that her desire in life is to...
The Spanish football league body, La Liga has released a four-plan step that will lead to the resumption of the league next month. This is contained...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare on Thursday mourned the “painful demise” of Member of the NFF Executive Committee and Chairman of the Nigeria...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday handed out palliatives to representatives of 14 different clubs and two communities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as token...
The coronavirus pandemic has continued to cause major upsets on world sports and African football has not been left behind, with the effects already rolling down....
Concacaf chief Victor Montagliani said on Wednesday (May 6) the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic would likely force changes to the structure of the region’s...
Football’s lawmakers are this week set to announce a “temporary” change to the laws of the sport allowing teams to make up to five substitutions in...
Liverpool, the run-away leaders of the current Premiership season may not be crowned! Before the current global lockdown on all sporting activities, the club was on...
Turkey plans to host the Champions League final in August, the head of its football federation said on Wednesday, after it was postponed by the global...
The Nigeria Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, has placed the mother of late Super Eagles striker, Rashidi Yekini, Alhaja Sikiratu, on a monthly stipend of...
Tributes, in torrents, have continued to flow in honour of the Member of NFF Executive Committee and Chairman of the Nigeria National League, Chidi Ofo Okenwa,...
Tragedy has befallen Nigerian football following the death of a member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Chidi Ofo Okenwa on Tuesday morning. Aged 50, he...
The quest of most users of the National stadium in Lagos to return to their usual activities met a brick wall as the old edify remained...
Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan on Monday (May 4) said the US women’s national team will appeal against defeat in their equal pay lawsuit, describing the...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has voiced his support for the United States women’s football team, a day after they suffered a setback in their...
The Premier League will make a desperate plea for unity this week amid claims that the bottom six clubs are sabotaging plans to resume the season....
CAF’s online publication on Sunday celebrated Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi and Egypt’s Mahmoud El Gohary, two continental legends who in the history of the Africa Cup of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is no secret that it was in Nigeria that Clemens Westerhof had the best of his career as a coach, even though...
BY NEIL SHEFFERD Israeli bank Hapoalim has agreed to pay $30million (£24million/€27.2million) after admitting money laundering as part of a high profile FIFA corruption case. The...
Premier League clubs have been told they cannot use their own stadiums for any games this season, with only “approved neutral venues” allowed to host remaining...
The June 12 date, which many politically sensitive Nigerians are aware of, is the date that the English Premiership has penciled down for the season’s restart....
FIFA has asked Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) to maintain its investigation into former president Sepp Blatter, football’s global governing body said on Saturday (May...
Premier League clubs will have to wait till after next Thursday to vote at a meeting how best to press ahead with their intention to resume...
The US women’s football team’s claims for equal pay were dismissed by a court on Friday (May 1), handing a victory to the United States Soccer...
Tokyo’s postponed Olympics is unlikely to take place even in 2021 as the conronavirus pandemic may not be fully contained around the world by then, a...
Premier League clubs on Friday (May 1) reconfirmed their commitment to finish the 2019/20 season subject to coronavirus restrictions being lifted in Britain despite fears expressed...
Italy’s 20 Serie A clubs on Friday (May 1) reiterated their unanimous desire to complete the season as the northern Emilia-Romagna region became the first to...
World heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua would fight behind closed doors only as a last resort, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. The British Boxing Board of...
The Covid-19 crisis could hit football’s international calendar for “two to three years” and potentially affect the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Lars-Christer Olsson, an executive...
All seems well in the Super Eagles as reports from American basic cable sports channel, ESPN has it that Gernot Rohr, the team’s coach will take...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has directed the onward payment of funds into the accounts of Nigerian athletes to provide some relief...
A police report obtained by AFP on Wednesday (April 29) showed that suspicions of impropriety against fallen FIFA boss Sepp Blatter over a controversial TV deal...
Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen would have wished that the French Ligue 1 is allowed to run for more match days as the championship is suddenly frozen following...
Backroom staff member of the Super Eagles, Ayotunde Adelakun has reacted to the commentary ran on Sports Village Square on Wednesday 29 April regarding the selection...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Guardian on Tuesday (April 28) published a story in which one of the backroom staff of Super Eagles’ coach, Gernot Rohr, Tunde...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino allegedly interfered in an investigation by Switzerland’s attorney general into his awarding of a television rights contract to an offshore company when...
French professional soccer, rugby and other league sports will not be allowed to return before September, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday (April 28), in...
The Swiss trial of four officials linked to the 2006 FIFA World Cup has ended without a verdict after the five-year statute of limitations passed. Three...
The UK government’s cabinet minister responsible for sport said he has been in talks with the Premier League with the aim of getting football back on...
World Athletics and the International Athletics Foundation (IAF) have come together to launch a US$500,000 (S$707,900) fund to help athletes in financial hardship due to the...
European football leagues have been given a May 25 deadline to inform governing body UEFA of their plans to restart their domestic competitions. Football has ground...
Tokyo 2020 organising committee president Yoshiro Mori said that the Olympic Games, already postponed to 2021, would be “scrapped” if they could not take place then,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is 36 years today that the meeting, which midwifed the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) took place in Lagos. On that 27...
Balls and pitches will need to be sterilised frequently when Spanish football returns in order to minimise the chance of players getting infected by the coronavirus,...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare has heaped praises on Mrs. Obiageli Solaja following the honour bestowed on her as the recipient of the...
Since its formation in 1956, the Dutch Eredivisie has never concluded without a winner, but there will be no champions this season after it became the...
Ligue 1 players will return to their clubs the week starting May 11 to undergo “full medical check-ups” with a view to restarting the French league...
The Premier League is eyeing a resumption of the season on June 8, behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the end date falling...
The English Football League insisted on Saturday (April 25) that matches cannot resume without “suitable” testing measures for the coronavirus, adding such measures must not jeopardise...
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF is expected to be relieved a little bit of its financial burdens as world football governing body, FIFA, will release all...
When ever the Nigerian football league resumes for the current season, all the players in the top division will undergo COVID-19 tests. This is one of...
French football could resume its season in June with two cup finals, French Football Federation president Noel le Graet proposed on Friday (April 24). He said...
Daily tests for the coronavirus. Only two people in the gym at a time. Players dressing for practice at home. These are just some of the...
No Dutch top-flight football league title will be awarded this season after the Covid-19 pandemic brought the campaign to a premature close, the Dutch FA (KNVB)...
Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Clubs Thursday evening met through digital video conferencing with the leadership of the League Management Company (LMC) during which varying options...
The Premier League is considering screening some closed-door matches on free-to-air television when the season restarts, Britain’s Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden yesterday said. Sky Sports and...
Qualification for the next Champions League should be “on sporting merit” if domestic leagues cannot be completed but countries should “explore all possible options” to finish...
UEFA will immediately release almost €70 million (S$107.4 million) in benefit payments to clubs struggling financially during the coronavirus crisis, European football’s governing body announced on...
The next European Championship will continue to be called Euro 2020 despite being postponed by a year to 2021, UEFA confirmed on Thursday (April 23). Following...
Ten years ago today, the modern Olympic Movement lost the second-most important figure in its well-over-a-century-long existence, with the death of Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló,...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics cannot be delayed beyond the year-long postponement already forced by the coronavirus outbreak, the organising committee’s president has warned in comments published...
The trial of three former high-ranking German Football Association (DFB) officials and ex-FIFA general secretary Urs Linsi has been delayed until April 27, the date the...
A member of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has tested positive for COVID-19, officials have announced. It was confirmed that a man in his thirties who...
Newcastle United’s sale to a Saudi-backed consortium appears to be close to completion- a deal that could turn the long-time underachievers into a major Premier League...
The coronavirus pandemic has taken another global sporting event as victim. This time, it is the Africa’s biggest International badminton championship, the Lagos International Badminton Classics....
Amnesty International has written to the Premier League saying it ‘risks becoming a patsy’ unless it takes a serious look at Saudi Arabia‘s human rights record with regard to...
Arsenal and Atletico Madrid would be the big winners if UEFA goes ahead to implement the controversial coefficient system to decide next season’s Champions League places....
UEFA made a “strong recommendation” on Tuesday (April 21) that domestic European football league seasons, currently on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, be completed. “There...
Algerian member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Mustapha Berraf has denied wrong doings and the reported travel ban imposed on him by the Algerian government....
A Swiss prosecutor investigating corruption in football met in secret with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, German and Swiss media have alleged, further fuelling allegations of collusion...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Mustapha Berraf has been banned from leaving his native Algeria following allegations of corruption. According to Le Soir d’Algérie newspaper, the public...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has agreed that his country would shoulder the cost of postponing the Olympics – estimated at around US$3 billion (S$4.3 billion)...
President of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria, Francis Orbih has condoled with the family of Yahaya Mohammed, the president of the Nigeria Weightlifting federation who passed...
To show appreciation for the efforts made and risks braved by healthcare workers and other professionals who are giving their all to ensure society continues to...
A Swiss prosecutor investigating corruption in football met in secret with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, German and Swiss media alleged Friday (April 17), further fuelling allegations...
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed profound shock and a sense of deep sorrow at the passage on Saturday of Mallam Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff...
Another pall of darkness fell on Nigerian sports at the weekend following the death of the President of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, Yahaya Mohammed. This happened...
The tower at Tokyo 1964’s Komazawa Olympic Park is being turned blue to honour doctors and nurses working against coronavirus pandemic. Komazawa Olympic Park was constructed...
Newcastle are closing in on a major takeover deal that could see them top the table for the wealthiest owners in the Premier League. Saudi Arabian...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Sunday Dare has joined others in paying tributes to the late Chief of Staff to Nigeria’s president, Abba Kyari who died late on...
The ravaging Covid-19 bites harder on sports this weekend as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) had to announce the indefinite postponements of its two flagship...
Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel for the English Premier League. The Premier League are working towards a tentative resumption...
UEFA is working on a proposal that could see the remainder of the Champions League condensed into a week-long mini-tournament, with the final taking place on...
If the La Liga season is cut short or abandoned because of the coronavirus pandemic, the top four teams in the current standings will qualify for...
South American qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, will begin in September, the region’s governing body Conmebol said on...
Premier League clubs remain committed to finishing the top-flight season, but did not set a June 30 deadline to complete the fixture list at their latest...
The players and staff at Serie A clubs should be tested for the coronavirus and then isolated in training camps when they begin preparing for the...
Dickson Etuhu who featured for Nigeria at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has been handed a five-year ban from football in Sweden after being...
Qatar has detected three more coronavirus cases among workers on World Cup stadiums, organisers said on Thursday (April 16), bringing the number of infections among those...
If the La Liga season is cut short or abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic, the four teams on top of the most recent completed round...
Premier League clubs will debate how to finish the season on Friday (April 17), with reports that a June 30 deadline will be proposed amid the...
The congress of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), due to hold next week Friday has been postponed indefinitely. The postponement is occasioned by the global...
The duo of Nigerian players, Victor Moses of Inter Milan and Olaoluwa Aina of Torino will be among the players and staff at Serie A clubs...
Predicting when football will resume in Europe is impossible in the current climate but there is no doubt that matches will have to be played in...
Tamás Aján has resigned as President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), where he has held high office since 1976. Ursula Papandrea, the American Acting President,...
The Austrian government said on Wednesday (April 15) that professional football teams could re-start training to prepare for the resumption of the season, which would be...
Badminton Confederation of Africa (BCA) has upgraded Nigeria’s Naomi Adeoyin Oyinloye, a certified national umpire as a continental certified umpire. According to a statement from the...
BY ALI IVESON The decision on which venes in the United States will host FIFA World Cup matches in 2026 looks set to be pushed back...
Normalcy may be restored soon in sports and other general activities of human endeavours as China said it has given the go-ahead to two more vaccine...
Despite being a relatively small volcano, the ash cloud created by Eyjafjallajokull’s eruption caused the highest level of disruption to air travel since World War II....
Though the current COVID-19 shutdown is unprecedented, football has had to contend with peculiar circumstances before, including 10 years ago when European air travel shut down...
The Football Association (FA) has offered Wembley and St George’s Park, the national football centre, as possible venues to help the English Premier League complete the...
France is considering restarting Ligue 1 on June 3 or June 17, with the latter date more likely, sports daily L’Equipe has reported, citing a document...
Barcelona will bring legal action against a former vice-president who has made accusations of management corruption, the La Liga champions announced on Monday (April 13). Last...
BY LIAM MORGAN Former FIFA vice-president Juan Ángel Napout has been denied compassionate release from prison amid the coronavirus pandemic but could still be let out...
Switzerland’s federal prosecutor is about to end its investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s deals with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to sell World Cup...
Gabon FA president Jean-Pierre Mounguengui has urged Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to leave Arsenal because the Premier League giants cannot fulfil his ambitions. The star striker moved to...
BY JOHN JOSHUA-AKANJI Faith is now restored in the Nigerian sports scene. Sponsors and individuals now feel comfortable investing in sports in Nigeria as there exists, great...
League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan said on Friday (April 10) that the English season can only be restarted if all footballers are tested for...
Barcelona have denied what the club describes as “serious and unfounded accusations” of corruption after a former vice-president claimed someone “had put their hands in the...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has warned against re-starting football too early amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling FIFA’s 211 member associations on Friday (April 10) that such...
Among the multitude of viral videos flying around social media during Britain’s coronavirus lockdown, is one, which ridicules Premier League footballers in a brutal, unsubtle fashion....
The Premier League has been alerted to a new app, which could speed up the safe return of fans to football. According to Daily Mail, British...
Tokyo 2020 officials will work from home as far as possible after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe declared a state of emergency for the capital, Osaka...
Qatar and Russia hit back at allegations of bribery on Tuesday (April 7) after US prosecutors accused them of paying millions in bribes for the rights...
After years of investigations and charges, the US Department of Justice on Monday said for the first time that representatives working for Russia and Qatar had...
La Liga could resume as early as 28 May in the best-case scenario as the league discusses its options, according to president Javier Tebas. No Spanish...
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has reportedly accepted a pay-cut of his £20million salary at when he returns following the death of his mother. The City boss...
The President of International Olympic Committee (IOC), Dr Thomas Bach, has commended the initiative of the Minister for Youth & Sports Development Sunday Dare and the Nigeria Olympic Committee...
A new court indictment has alleged FIFA executives were paid bribes in exchange for voting for Russia and Qatar to host World Cups in 2018 and...
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said on Monday (April 6) that there is “no way” Liverpool should finish the season without the Premier League title, even if...
Sex maniac, Kyle Walker could have played his last game for England after flouting lockdown rule to host a sex party. According to UK’s Daily Mail,...
The Nigeria Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has announced the sudden death of one of its most committed staff, Katmwan Dungse who slumped and died...
The tenure in the Super Eagles of the Franco-German coach, Gernot Rohr seems imminent to end. The NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, in a breakfast programme on...
Nigeria’s Youths and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare has urged Nigerian athletes to keep hope alive on the occasion of the International Day of Sports for Development...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has lauded the efforts of the Federal Government in containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, describing measures taken...
FIFA is getting ready to deal with complaints and appeals over wage cuts for players, producing guidelines for clubs and football bodies looking to cut costs...
The Serie A season could be extended to September or October, the head of the Italian FA (FIGC) said on Sunday (April 5), warning that there...
UEFA has denied there is an Aug 3 deadline to complete this season’s Champions League after a report by German broadcaster ZDF quoted the body’s President...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has cleared the cloud of uncertainty that had gathered over the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifiers involving Nigerian athletes. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by a year as...
Next year’s Badminton World Championships are set to be rescheduled because of a clash with the new dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The Badminton...
Another Kenyan athlete has been handed a doping ban after marathon runner Vincent Kipsegechi Yator was suspended for four years following positive tests for a number...
The Belgian Football Association (KBVB) announced on Saturday (April 4) that it is working with UEFA towards a “constructive” solution regarding the premature end to the...
BY LIAM MORGAN. UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin has criticised the Belgian Pro League and warned its places in the Champions League and Europa League are under...
BY LIAM MORGAN The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the qualification deadline for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after the Games were postponed until 2021 because...
All international football matches scheduled for June were postponed on Friday (April 3) following the first meeting of FIFA’s coronavirus working group. It was also decided...
The age limit for the Tokyo Olympics men’s football tournament could be raised so that players who were eligible in 2020 will not miss out following...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has declared that he could not score himself six months after assuming office, even as he remains focused on re-inventing...
English Premier League clubs will ask players to take a combination of pay cuts and deferrals amounting to 30 per cent of their annual salary due...
English football’s moment of truth is here. English Premier League chiefs are holding their crunch coronavirus meeting today… now is the time to decide on the...
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino admitted on Thursday (April 2) that “nobody knows” when football can resume around the world, and that when it returned it was...
The Lagos chapter of the Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has joined thousands across the world to commiserate with the family of the Larry Izamoje, chairman...
The Wimbledon tennis championships were cancelled for the first time since World War II as the coronavirus pandemic wiped another blue-riband sports event off the calendar...
UEFA bowed to the inevitable on Wednesday (April 1) and suspended all Champions League and Europa League soccer matches “until further notice” due to the coronavirus...
To further raise awareness about the pandemic COVID 19 in Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development in partnership with the Nigeria Olympic Committee team...
The latter stages of this season’s Champions League and Europa League are reportedly set to be moved to July and August as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on...
FIFA are working on the details of a “Football Marshall plan” to deal with the financial fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, which will almost certainly result...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON. Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony executive producer Marco Balich has said that the COVID-19 crisis must be referenced at the event as it is...
Spain’s La Liga could recommence in July without spectators, the head of a major broadcaster has said, adding that the season was likely to be cancelled...
Premier League and English Football League clubs are seeking agreement on a collective wage deferral plan at a meeting with the Professional Footballers’ Association on Wednesday...
The octogenarian Brazilian football boss jailed as part of the corruption investigation inside the sport’s world governing body FIFA is to be released early on compassionate...
All of Europe’s 55 national football associations will hold a video conference with UEFA on Wednesday (April 1) to discuss the latest proposals on how the...
Shares in Italian football giants Juventus surged on Monday (March 30) after the club’s decision to cut their players’ salaries in the midst of the coronavirus...
Wimbledon organisers will announce the cancellation of the grasscourt Grand Slam this week due to the coronavirus pandemic, German Tennis Federation (DTB) vice-president Dirk Hordorff has...
New dates for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will likely be revealed this week, organisers said on Monday (March 30) after the coronavirus forced the historic...
Former Super Eagles captain and goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, on Sunday teamed up with some prominent former Africans to fight against the dreaded Coronavirus that is ravaging...
Despite the postponement of the National Sports Festival and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to the outbreak of Covid-19 , Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday...
The English Premier League is ready to accept the inevitable over the coronavirus pandemic and tell its footballers to take a break from training, as doubts...
The head of European soccer’s governing body said that the current season could be “lost” if it is unable to re-start by the end of June,...
Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee president Yoshiro Mori has told international federations that deciding who foots the bill for postponing the Games to 2021 will be...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has joined the global battle to save mankind as the president of the organisation released a one minute 51 second video...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON FIFA have reinstated the current members of the Kenyan Football Federation (FKF), overruling a decision made by the nation’s Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT)....
BY LIAM MORGAN The postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games until no later than the summer of 2021 has sparked uncertainty for those who have...
BY MIKE ROWBOTTOM The World Athletics Championships could be moved from next year to 2022 to accommodate the rearranged Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, according to World...
BY LIAM MORGAN A decision on when the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be held is expected to be made within the next three weeks,...
BY DANIEL ETCHELLS Teams in the highest tier of professional football in China have resumed training this week as the coronavirus outbreak in the country eases....
BY DANIEL ETCHELLS Football Federation Australia (FFA) chief executive James Johnson says the national governing body would like to open up discussion with FIFA and the...
Athletes who had already qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before they were postponed will keep their places when the showpiece takes place in 2021, sources...
BY DAVID LEE In Japanese culture, the number four is feared and fended against because it sounds like death. The number 40 is unlikely to evoke...
The decision to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics until next year means taxpayers and sponsors likely will have to fork over billions of dollars more just...
The Professional Footballers’ Association called on Wednesday (March 25) for urgent talks with the Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) over the financial impact...
Wimbledon could be postponed or even cancelled after All England Club chiefs called an “emergency meeting” for next week to discuss whether to go ahead with...
Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales on Wednesday (March 25) announced lines of credit for lower-level clubs in difficulty because of the coronavirus pandemic...
This season’s Champions League, Europa League and women’s Champions League finals that were originally scheduled for May have been formally postponed because of the global coronavirus...
BY ALI IVESON The Olympic Torch Relay throughout Japan has been cancelled after the Games were pushed back until 2021. With the Games no longer taking...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee will hold an Executive Board meeting on Monday (March 30) as the future of this year’s Games hangs...
Footballers at Germany’s top teams including Bayern Munich have agreed to take pay cuts to help clubs survive the economic impact of the coronavirus, media reports...
There are three African legends, but no Nigerian as FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) teamed up to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) by launching a...
Global athletics chief Sebastian Coe has indicated that next year’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon could slip to 2022 as a consequence of the 2020 Tokyo...
Major corporate sponsors of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are standing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the Games were postponed and experts familiar with the...
The leadership of the Nigeria Basketball Federation has commended the International Olympics Committee’s decision to postpone the Tokyo Summer Olympics for another one year as the...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare has commended the IOC for postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to the covid-19 pandemic. According to Dare...
The directives of the Federal Government on the raging coronavirus outbreak has altered the work plan of the investigative panel set up by the Nigeria Football...
Japan will hold the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games by the summer of 2021 at latest, owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said...
A final decision whether to postpone this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games will be taken in the coming days, two sources within the Olympic movement told Reuters...
English Premiership players have accepted that playing games in closed stadiums might be the only way to complete the English domestic league season, Bobby Barnes, deputy...
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said on Monday (March 23) the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo should be postponed, in the latest setback...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday called on all members of the country’s football family including stakeholders to pray hard in view of recent deaths and...
UEFA has announced its decision to postpone both the men and women’s Champions League finals, as well as the Europa League showpiece, due to the ongoing...
Former players of Shooting Stars and the chairman in the 1997 to 1999 football season, Bode Oyewole have written an appeal to the Oyo State Governor,...
To safeguard the health of all involved and to contribute to the containment of Covid-19, the Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today...
For the first time since Moscow 1980, the Olympic Games will be hit by withdrawals as Canada became the first country to pull out of the...
The Premier League is formulating a new contingency plan to finish the season, which reportedly involves fixtures resuming from June 1 and all matches being played within a...
Whether the Tokyo Olympics should take place may soon become obvious, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Saturday (March 21). Coe’s comments came as numerous...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. How time flies! It is 40 years today since Nigeria first won the Africa Cup of Nations. At the time, the football populace...
According to a press release by the media aides of Nigeria’s sports minister, Sunday Dare, the Nigerian government had planned to celebrate the 40th year anniversary...
Coronavirus is already provoking a global recession, which is set to affect football as well. In these circumstances, UEFA are already thinking about the potential measures...
Forty years after winning the premier sports contest in Africa, the Youth and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare has hailed the Nigerian national football team. Sunday 22...
US Olympic chiefs said on Friday (March 20) more time was needed to determine the fate of the Tokyo Olympics as a major US sports federation...
The President of the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC), Abner Xoagub, has claimed that his counterparts from the other African Olympic Committees support the International Olympic...
The Tokyo Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the “stress” of trying to train in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, UK Athletics chairman...
UEFA were forced into an embarrassing about-turn on Friday (March 20) after they mistakenly tweeted that Euro 2020 would keep its original title despite being pushed...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering various scenarios for the Tokyo Games amid the coronavirus pandemic but cancellation is not one of them, IOC president Thomas Bach...
Europe’s top five football leagues could lose as much as €4 billion (S$6.3 billion) in combined revenue if the coronavirus pandemic wipes out the rest of...
With major football activities all over the world suspended, world football governing body, FIFA has offered fans the chance to relive full World Cup and Women’s...
The aircraft carrying the Olympic flame arrived at Japan Air Self-Defence Force’s Matsushima base, Kyodo news agency said on Friday (March 20), as concerns growth whether...
Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight title defence against Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev will be postponed by several months due to the coronavirus outbreak, the IBF’s mandatory challenger said...
The shutdown of English football was extended until at least April 30 on Thursday after the Premier League and English Football League (EFL) held crisis meetings....
World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe said on Thursday (March 19) that moving the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to September or October due to the coronavirus outbreak was...
The Serbian government is set to press charges against the country’s Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic for breaking his mandatory 28-day coronavirus quarantine, the state Tanjug...
England’s Premier League clubs will hold a video conference call between themselves on Thursday (March 18) as they begin to sketch out a way to complete...
It is possibly a crucial day for the embattled former Nigerian footballer and coach as his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to...
Liverpool’s quest for their first League title could be up in the air should the coronavirus ravaging the globe now forces the season to be inconclusive...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced the postponement of the 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN) until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic. This...
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced the cessation of all forms of football activities in the country for the next four weeks, as a result of...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE Like most public activities, football has been shut down in most continents following COVID-19 outbreaks. But the League Management Company says the NPFL...
The president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, has attacked the league’s plan to carry out coronavirus tests at every first and second division...
This year’s Euro 2020 has been postponed for a year as the world fights to contain the global coronavirus pandemic, UEFA confirmed yesterday. European football’s governing...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick on Tuesday inaugurated the ad-hoc committee set up by the football –governing body to investigate the death...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Sunday Dare has announced that the 20th edition of the National Sports Festival slated for Benin City later this month has been postponed....
Euro 2020 could be postponed by up to a year, with all the sporting and financial consequences that would entail, when UEFA holds a crisis meeting...
Nigeria’s number one sporting state, Delta State, on Monday released a set of intervening measures aimed at protecting Delta’s contingent from Coronavirus at the Edo 2020...
Italy’s football federation will ask for the Euro 2020 tournament to be postponed over the coronavirus outbreak in the hope of being able to complete the...
A range of sports stars and other celebrities have taken part in a World Health Organisation (WHO) social media campaign to show proper hand-washing practices in...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has described Simba Group as a worthy partner in the journey to make Nigerian football fulfilling for players and fans. According...
Former English Football Association (FA) chairman Greg Dyke said it would be nonsensical for the Premier League to abandon the current season and scratch the rankings,...
World football governing body, FIFA has explained that in light of the current situation concerning the Coronavirus, the Bureau of the FIFA Council has decided that...
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has suspended all BWF World Tour and BWF-sanctioned tournaments from Monday (March 16) to April 12 amid the global escalation of...
British football is facing a crisis that is unprecedented in the modern era, after the postponement of the league seasons in England plunged clubs into a...
Friday’s change of position by CAF over qualifying matches of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations may have been prompted by FIFA. CAF announced on Friday...
UEFA will consider the option of postponing Euro 2020 during a video conference with its 55 federations, a source close to European football’s governing body said...
The upcoming Match Day 3 and 4 of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series have been postponed on account of the fast spreading coronavirus which...
All soccer matches in England, including the top-flight English Premier League, will be suspended until April 4 due to the coronavirus outbreak. “Following a meeting of...
The Nigeria Football Federation has constituted a panel to look into the circumstances surrounding last weekend’s unfortunate death of Nasarawa United FC player, Chineme Martins during...
The Premier League will hold an emergency meeting today after it was revealed Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta had contracted coronavirus. The shock news came on the...
The trial of three former high-ranking German Football Association (DFB) officials and ex-FIFA general secretary Urs Linsi in a case involving a suspect payment linked to...
BY LIAM MORGAN. FIFA has postponed its Congress in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia from June to September because of the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement today,...
Britain is set to unveil a crisis plan for football that will keep all Premier League matches played behind closed doors as the country battles the...
Even as sporting activities are being canceled or restricted to close doors worldwide, football governing body in Africa, CAF has declared its intention to continue with...
BY ENDERLINE CHUKWU Nigeria’s Minister Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has described the 20th National Sports Festival tagged “ EDO 2020” as Nigeria’s...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday night announced the unprecedented suspension of all sporting events in the country, including its top-flight Serie A football league,...
If the Olympics cannot be held in Tokyo this summer due to the global outbreak of the coronavirus, a delay of one or two years would...
The moribund Principal’s Cup in Nigeria, which had been in the doldrums for years has been revived with the signing of an MOU between the Nigeria...
FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have agreed to postpone the Asian World Cup qualifying matches in March and June due to the outbreak of...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Sunday Dare has offered scholarship to a five-year old boxing sensation, Ayomide Adeyemo. According to a media release from his media aides, the minister...
The maiden Kunav Football League (KFL) in Vandeikya Local Government of Benue State in Nigeria is expected to kickoff this Friday at the Vandeikya Township Stadium....
As sports enthusiasts anticipate the 20th National Sports Festival tagged Edo 2020, the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and its marketing partner, HotSports have announced live transmission...
English Premier League matches are likely to be played behind closed doors this month owing to the spread of the coronavirus, according to Everton chief financial...
Football governing body in Africa, CAF, has named eight African countries where coronavirus has been reported even as it offers tips on how to curtail the...
The Confederation of African Football has announced on Friday that three countries, Cameroon, Tunisia and Morocco, have submitted bids to host the finals of first ever...
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation have announced that what is remaining from the league’s first division’s games, Botola, will be held behind closed doors over coronavirus fears. The world...
Tunisian club, Esperance has been sanctioned by CAF following the players and coach’s wrongdoing against the match official during their first leg encounter against Zamalek in...
The Egyptian Football Association announced on Wednesday that Egyptian match official Mohamed El-Sabahy has been entrusted for the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) job for the first time in...
Confederation of African Football, CAF, have appointed Abdelmounaim Bah, a Moroccan as the Acting General Secretary, replacing compatriot Mouad Hajji who resigned on Monday. He becomes...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT. The Brazilian Football Federation (CFB) has reportedly begun talks with Paris Saint-Germain over the prospect of Neymar captaining the team in the Tokyo...
In less than three years since March 2017, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will be having its fourth General Secretary as the current one, Moud...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. After 23 years and two months, the offices of the Nigeria Football Federation are moving to a new headquarters. In a series of...
Unlike the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and some other global sporting events that have either been cancelled or at risk of either cancellation or postponement, Nigeria’s Sports...
The towering Former Green Eagles goalkeeper, Emmanuel Okala has commended Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare for his commitment to the welfare of Ex players...
A line of questioning on a recent call between the International Olympic Committee, the World Health Organization and various sports’ federations chiefs has led some to...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino arrived at Belfast’s Culloden Hotel for the IFAB meeting and headed straight to a huddle of reporters in the lobby. Wary of...
BY NANCY GILLEN Coronavirus has caused a state of emergency to be declared in Sapporo, the Japanese city hosting the marathon and race walks during the...
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’...
Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang has been banned for eight years after one of his entourage destroyed his blood vial with a hammer during an...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has refused to rule out postponing international football matches in response to the escalating global threat of the coronavirus. This weekend’s matches...
BY LIAM MORGAN. Tokyo 2020 is considering downsizing the Torch Relay for this year’s Olympic Games because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to chief executive Toshirō...
Tokyo 2020 marketing agency Dentsu has ordered around 5,000 staff to work from home after confirming one of its employees had contracted the coronavirus at its...
In his two decades as a consultant to organisations vying to host the Olympic Games, Terrence Burns helped write and review official bids and plans from...
BY LIAM MORGAN. Former FIFA Council member Wilmar Valdez has been banned for a year by world football’s governing body for breaching his duty of loyalty....
The Nigerian Ministry of Youth and Sports has reiterated its dogged commitment to its deliberate policies and initiatives to enhance the employability and digital skills of...
As the International Olympic Committee looks ahead to the Summer Games with trepidation, it does have something that could cushion the blow in case of cancellation:...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has applauded Elizabeth Anyanacho, who is the first Nigerian female to qualify for Taekwondo in 16 years...
Tokyo Olympics organisers said preparations were “continuing as planned” on Tuesday (Feb 25) as Japan’s football league became the latest sporting victim of the coronavirus, just...
You can’t be what you can’t see’ has become something of a mantra in women’s football. And amid this ever-growing appreciation of the importance of visible...
Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has entered into an agreement with Nilayo Sports Management Limited as the official marketer of Team Nigeria to the...
The Federation Guinean de Football (FGF) has pleaded with the Nigeria Football Federation for postponement by one week of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup second...
In exactly 1,000 days, the world will gather again for the biggest football show on Earth – in the most unique setting yet. The compact nature...
Manchester City may be set to go to war with UEFA, but time is of the essence for the English champions to satisfy their quest to...
MICHAEL HOUSTON. South Africa have pulled their Olympic football team out of a friendly with hosts Japan due to the ongoing fears over coronavirus in the...
BY LIAM MORGAN. Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has admitted he is praying for the coronavirus to “vanish” amid lingering concerns over the impact of the...
All the players have arrived. The venue is set. And the atmosphere is charged. It is the 2020 ITTF Africa Top Cup 16, and it serves...
Six countries, including hosts Morocco and Africa’s most populous nation Nigeria, secured Olympic tickets for Tokyo 2020 Olympics on the opening day of the on-going African...
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed deep grief over the death of the vice chairman of the Rivers State Football Association, Chief Omineokuma-Kile, which sad event...
The immediate past General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Amr Fahmy has died. His death was announced by the confederation in a condolence...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT. Tokyo 2020 has postponed the training of Olympic and Paralympic Games volunteers due to the coronavirus outbreak. The first training sessions for volunteers,...
In fulfilment of his promise to host the Air Warriors of Lagos for emerging champions of the Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League, Youth and Sports Development...
Pep Guardiola, in his first press conference since being confronted with the possibility of a two-year Champions League ban for Manchester City over alleged breaches of...
Paris Saint-Germain chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Fifa’s disgraced former secretary general Jerome Valcke have been indicted in Switzerland for alleged corruption in the attribution of football...
Donald Trump has promised that the United States Government will provide “tremendous support” to the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The American President confirmed...
Justice Peter O. Affen, presiding at the FCT High Court, on Thursday finally declined to add the names of President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju...
Fortune has smiled on young Nigerian Junior Olympic Triple Jump athlete Ineh Oritsemeyiwa with the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare providing him ticket to...
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has little sympathy for Manchester City over their ban from European competitions, especially as he regularly lost some of...
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced the 12 club teams from 12 African countries that will compete in the league’s inaugural season, which will tip...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON. Minister of Sports of Russia, Oleg Matytsin, has said the country are ready to host any sporting events that are affected by the...
The third edition of the Edo State Sports Festival, which ended on Saturday in Benin City, met the expectations of the organizers, says Godwin Dudu-Orumen, Chairman...
BY LIAM MORGAN. Twitter accounts controlled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have tonight been hacked by cyber group OurMine. A post from the hacking group...
Tokyo 2020 organisers this Monday rolled out the motto for this year’s Olympics, “United by Emotion”, which they said reflected the “universal values” and “unifying power...
The Minister for Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare has assured that the welfare of athletes is not negotiable as they prepare for both the...
There is a common denominator in the back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations qualifying duel of Nigeria and Sierra Leone next month. It is in the names...
Former Manchester City star Rodney Marsh fears the Premier League champions will be thrown into disarray by their shock two-year ban from UEFA competitions. City have been...
Pep Guardiola faces a huge test of his loyalty to Manchester City after his club were hit with a stunning two-year from UEFA competitions on Friday (Feb 14)....
BY LIAM MORGAN. Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshirō Mutō has labelled suggestions this year’s Olympics and Paralympics could be cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak as...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare met Thursday with the Ministerial Advisory Committee and Presidents Federations of Sports who willing represent Nigeria at...
Nigeria’s preparations to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics got yet another boost on Wednesday as Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shuaibu adopted Nigerian athlete, Nwokocha Nzubechi. The...
Nigeria’s minister of youth and sports development Sunday Dare has cleared all doubts on the state of readiness of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium to host the...
First Nigerian footballer to clock a century of international appearances, Joseph Yobo has been appointed as assistant coach of the Super Eagles. Yobo, former Super Eagles’...
BY DAN PALMER. The accounting records of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have been described as “unreliable and not trustworthy” after an independent audit, it...
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will use this weekend’s all-comers competition to select the first set of athletes that will qualify for its first Classics...
Multiple international media have reported that the Chinese Grand Prix, scheduled for April 19 in Shanghai, will be cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus. Formula...
Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers said on Thursday (Feb 6) that the Games would “go ahead as planned”, slamming misinformation over the new coronavirus for triggering panic....
Super Eagles’ first match this year which was initially anticipated to hold at the remodeled 19,500 capacity Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin will no longer hold...
The board of Powerlifting Federation of Nigeria has suspended its embattled president, Queen Uboh-Idris over series of allegations. The suspension came on the heels of the...
Sports Minister in Nigeria, Sunday Dare has assured that the ministry will continue to align with sports federations that adhere to processes and rules guiding their...
Kwara State Weightlifting Association Chairman, Dr. Steve Olarinoye , has lauded the state’s Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq following the successful hosting of the state’s Sports Festival for...
General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi on Thursday charged the coaches of the U17 women national team, Flamingos, to place as much...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Port Harcourt, in Rivers State of Nigeria will be the venue for the next congress of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) in...
BY ALI IVESON The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) has called a temporary halt to testing because of the coronavirus outbreak – less that six months out...
Former DR Congo forward Shabani Nonda and former Cote d’Ivoire defender Didier Zokora will assist the draw for the knockout stages of the CAF Champions League...
BY DAN PALMER. The entire Executive Committee of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has resigned in the latest twist at the crisis-hit organisation. A working group...
Just as remarked by the famous American football player and coach, Vince Lombardy, Nigeria’s sports minister has tasked the Team Nigeria squad at the Abuja 2020...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE The path to the final matches of both the CAF Champions League and the Confederation Cup will be drawn today at the October...
Chairman of the Edo Sports Commission has denied speculations that the Edo State Sports Festival has been postponed. The festival is still slated for the week...
When the appeal by the embattled Nigerian former footballer and coach, Samson Siasia is tabled at the Court of Arbitration for Sports next month, the lawyers...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the clock ticks down to the March 19 date for his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), embattled former...
The six-month mission agreed between FIFA and CAF to help accelerate the implementation of the reform process in the African governing body has been completed with...
BY BLESSING LERE-ADAMS. When youths are positively engaged with sustainable economic activities, this will not only ensure socio- economic progress, promotion of National cohesion, peace and...
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino has proposed to CAF, a new pan-African club competition. This was made at the seminar on African football in Rabat, Morocco. The...
FIFA boss, Gianni Infantino has proposed that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) should hold the premier football competition in the continent every four years instead...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, played host the Minister Of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, to flag off the movement of the Torch of Unity...
BY JOHN JOSHUA AKANJI The age long practice of paying glowing tributes to dead heroes without commensurate honour and monuments erected to immortalize them will no...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is still a long way to go for the embattled Nigeria former international footballer and coach, Samson Siasia in his bid to...
BY ALEX BELL The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has unveiled the uniforms to be worn by technical officials during competition....
BY DANIEL ETCHELLS Tokyo marked six months until the start of the 2020 Olympic Games with a fireworks display and the first lighting of the Olympic...
Nigeria’s Patience Ndidi Madu is one of the 35 football referees invited for the Elite Referees for future FIFA competitions. The referees are drawn form three...
Chairman of Chairmen of Nigerian Football, Ibrahim Musa Gusau has stated that the NFF resorted to appointing a Normalisation Committee to run the affairs of the...
Cooler temperatures and clearing skies following torrential rain on Wednesday (Jan 15) allowed officials to continue the qualifying tournament for the Australian Open on Thursday, with...
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has revealed that 28 cities have declared an interest in becoming the destination for the body’s new headquarters, as well...
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has appointed Charles ‘CK’ Akonnor as its new national team coach to replace Kwesi Appiah. Akonnor is a former captain of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA As earlier anticipated, CAF has reverted to the old calendar of the Africa Cup of Nations. The Cameroon Football Federation, hosts of...
Nigeria’s leading sports marketing and broadcasting company, HS Media Group has urged the Federal Government to strategically support the local industry in line with its recent...
The famous English Premiership side, Arsenal, which is hugely followed in Nigeria, may finally get a perfect Nigerian flavor next year. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote...
The trial of former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack in Paris has been delayed until June after prosecutors received documents concerning testimony...
A six-man committee has been put in place by the Edo State Government to prepare a road map for a successful outing of Team Edo during...
BY DAVID OWEN. An increase in the size of the women’s Olympic football tournament may be more likely now that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has joined...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) counterpart Yasuhiro Yamashita and International Tennis Federation (ITF) head David Haggerty have officially joined the International Olympic Committee...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA It is still a long wait to go for the embattled former Nigeria international footballer and coach, Samson Siasia in his bid to...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed its interest in hosting the 2020 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) president, Ahmad...
The President of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN) Francis Orbih Esq has stated that the federation is working assiduously to ensure that its players’ qualifier...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has declared African Men’s Player of the Year, Sadio Mane of Senegal and Women’s Player of the...
Nigeria’s immediate past Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has eulogized Asisat Oshoala, the only Nigeria winner at the 2019 CAF Awards. The Super Falcons...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee, Ahmed Yusuf who is better known as Fresh, has explained why the columns by his...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Asisat Oshoala was on Tuesday named the African best lady footballer for a record-equaling fourth time. She however almost not achieved the feat...
Bambali in Senegal, which is the birthplace of the new African Football King, Sadio Mane, was on Tuesday besieged by many media outlets as the hitherto...
After a fourth attempt on the podium, Senegal and Liverpool star, Sadio Mane was on Tuesday named the African Footballer of the Year 2019. He beat...
Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala was on Tuesday in Egypt named the African best lady footballer. It is her fourth time of winning. The Nigerian superstar has been...
Even as the date of hearing for the appeal filed by Nigeria’s Samson Siasia at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) against a life ban...
The duo of former Super Eagles stars, Daniel Amokachi and Nwankwo Kanu along with FIFA President, Gianni Infantino and his CAF counterpart, Ahmad were among an...
President of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Honour Sirawoo was among the nine persons inducted at the weekend as Knight of St. Christopher in...
Here is how in the previous three editions where Sadio Mane has been a finalist, yet he never won: 2016: Mahrez (1st), Aubameyang (2nd), Mane (3rd)...
Mohamed Salah will be looking to bag a hat-trick of CAF Player of the Year awards on home soil when he battles for the coveted crown...
Nigerian star football players Asisat Oshoala, Victor Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze are in the shortlist for honours at the 2019 CAF Awards ceremony scheduled for the Albatros Citadel...
A date has been fixed for the hearing of appeal filed by former Nigeria footballer and coach, Samson Siasia at the Court of Arbitration for Sport...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As at Monday morning, only $200 have been raised in a target of $250,000 that former Nigeria player and coach, Samson Siasia is...
Egypt is beginning to bubble ahead of Tuesday’s CAF Awards holding at Hurghada. According to Egypt Independent publication, Kamel Abu-Ali, the President of the Tourism Investment...
The men’s US national team has called off plans to go to Qatar for a winter training camp following unrest in the Middle East, U.S. Soccer...
Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) has sacked the coaches of all their men’s and women’s national teams, the country’s governing body has said. The GFA did not...
South African Thembi Kgatlana and Cameroon’s Ajara Nchout Njoya stand in the way of Nigerian Asisat Oshoala’s race to clinch a fourth African Women’s Player of...
Again, as in 2018, the Super Eagles are set to make fashion statement in 2020 as kit manufacturers, Nike are set to unveil new kits for...
Again, as in 2018, the Super Eagles are set to make fashion statement in 2020 as kit manufacturers, Nike are set to unveil new kits for...
The annual CAF Awards enters its 28th edition and the Awards Gala will take place in the Egyptian resort city of Hurghada. It is the first...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA It is 23 years this Thursday since the secretariat of the Nigeria moved from its former headquarters at Ogunlana Drive, Lagos to a...
BY BRIAN OLIVER. The top two coaches in Egypt’s national weightlifting team have been sent to jail during a Government inquiry into widespread doping and misappropriation...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On January 1, 1964, Nigeria’s first president, Nnamdi Azikiwe in a New Year message analysed the state of sports in the country and...
Nigerian Basketball stakeholders have been assured of more strides in the sports as 2020 beckons. In his New Year speech to stakeholders, the Nigeria Basketball Federation...
As the clock ticks into a New Year and indeed, a new decade, Nigeria football chieftain, Amaju Pinnick has promised a better outing for Nigeria. According...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In modern era, only Sani Toro as General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation enjoyed a longer period in office than the incumbent,...
BY UDOKA CHRISTIAN NJOKU, PLUS TV AFRICA If there is one thing 2019 has delivered, its great moments in sports. Records have been set and broken,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With a little over three weeks to the draw for the second round of the African qualifying series for the 2022 World Cup,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The added time goal that Riyad Mahrez of Algeria scored to send Nigeria out of contention for the final match of the 2019...
Nigeria’s contribution to football fashion will again be on parade when the Super Eagles begin their 2020 World Cup qualifiers against yet to be determined opponents...
Liverpool have been denied the prestige of adorning their shirts with the gold FIFA Club World Cup winners badge for the rest of the season. The...
BY MIKE ROWBOTTOM. Tokyo is reported to be still short of 14,000 hotel rooms required during the hosting of Olympic and Paralympic Games next year –...
Impressed with the organisation coupled with the standard of play at the maiden edition of the tournament held at Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium....
FIFA has banned a Bahrain player for 10 games for racism in a World Cup qualifier. Sayed Baqer formed a slanted-eye gesture toward fans at the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. If there is any of the eight major categories of the CAF Awards, which Nigeria is certain to win next month, it is...
Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo did not make the cut as the top three for the 2019 CAF Awards contenders are released on Sunday. This is coming barely...
The dream of Nigeria hosting of FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in 2020 has finally evaporated. FIFA inspection team was in Nigeria for evaluation of...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT. The Tokyo 2020 New National Stadium will officially open this Saturday with a special event featuring Olympic and Paralympic stars. Eight-time Olympic champion...
A couple of former Nigerian international players have lambasted former defender, Taribo West over his remarks against the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation, including his...
BY DUNCAN MACKAY. The manifesto which led to the revival of the Olympic Games more than 120 years ago has sold for a record $8,806,500 (£6,764,543/€7,916,191)...
Nigeria’s national football team, Super Eagles, remain on the same spot of 31st position as FIFA rolls out its end of the year statistics. However, Belgium...
Leading sports production and marketing company, HotSports Nigeria Limited has congratulated Dr Mohammed Sanusi on his re-appointment as General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria Football Federation has earmarked a total of N7 .5 billion for total expenditure of the Federation in the coming year. This...
The board of the Nigeria Football Federation has apporoveda fresh, five-year contract for its General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi. Sports Village Square gathered from the communique...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes said that he thinks his client would have won the Ballon d’Or over Lionel Messi had he stayed at Real Madrid. Apparently...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Following the abysimal performance of the Nigerian team to the last edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the country has announced...
With the flagging off of the ‘The Adoption Campaign’ by the Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports, the minister, Sunde Dare has restated that business moguls,...
FIFA under Gianni Infantino is set to take legal action against former President Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini in a bid to recoup the CHF2 million...
Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) President Habu Gumel has called for national federations to seek funding opportunities to support athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Gumel...
As the formal bid for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup closes this Friday, South Africa has sensationally withdrawn from the race, opening the way for...
The French authorities have opened a corruption investigation into the circumstances that led to Qatar being awarded the 2022 World Cup. The investigation, which will be...
What could have thrown the Nigeria’s premier football league into major crisis was averted earlier in the week as a legal case that queried the legitimacy...
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) during its board meeting, which is part of their Annual General meeting on Wednesday, hosted its first Patrons Forum. The objective...
The National Olympic Committee (NOC) during its board meeting which is part of their Annual General meeting on Wednesday set up a four-man investigative panel to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) decision to ban his country from competing under its own flag at the Olympic...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The draw for the qualifying series for African teams to the World Cup 2020 will be made on January 21 next year...
The immediate past FIFA World Cup hosts, Russia were on Monday banned from Qatar 2022 and other world’s top sporting events for four years for tampering...
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) will hold its Annual General Meeting on December 12, 2019 at the Starview Palace Hotel, Gwarimpa Estate in FCT, Abuja. Coming...
BY LIAM MORGAN FIFA President Gianni Infantino is in line to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after he was proposed for membership by the Executive...
With two parallel bodies laying claims to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), the Ministry of Sports has reacted to the claims from the extra ordinary...
BY DAN PALMER International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has confirmed financial support for Aduvie International School in Nigerian capital Abuja. The German visited the...
BY LIAM MORGAN. UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin has criticised the negative impact of the video assistant referee (VAR) system on football but insisted the European governing...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The duo of Wilfred Ndidi and Victor Osimhen are no longer in contention for the African Footballer of the Year after dropping out...
Virgil van Dijk deserved to win the Ballon d’Or instead of losing out to Lionel Messi, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said on Tuesday. Liverpool’s Dutch defender...
With the life cycle of the current Confederation of African Football (CAF) administration on its last lap before another election in March 2021, Amr Fahmy, who...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The compact waterfront sports stadium in Lagos, Nigeria, the Onikan Arena has been renamed after the first Lagos State Governor, retired Brig. Gen....
The long anticipated book on Nigeria’s lead sports brand, the Super Eagles, will be available to the public later this month. The book titled: “Super Eagles...
Dutchman, Virgil van Dijk who came second behind Lionel Messi at the 2019 Ballon d’Or awards, has heaped praises on the winner, Lionel Messi. Before then, he...
Earlier reports have suggested that Cristiano Ronaldo could boycott this Monday’s Ballon d’Or ceremony holding at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. The reason was that a...
Former FIFA Executive Committee member Ricardo Teixeira, among those indicted for corruption in the United States, has been handed a life ban for bribery. Teixera, a...
BY ULOR CHIOMA Nigeria’s Minister for Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has inaugurated the committee for the country’s successful participation at the 2020 Olympic and...
FIFA has banned a leading African soccer official who faces trial for war crimes in The Hague. FIFA says its ethics judges banned Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona for...
BY DAN PALMER. Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner successfully lobbied for a change of leadership at the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) as he...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles’ manager, Gernot Rohr seems to be at the centre of the storm. Only two days ago, his employers, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF),...
The organisers of the Ballon d’Or ceremony next month face a ‘problem’ on convincing Cristiano Ronaldo to attend this year’s event, after it was widely reported this...
The earlier postponed annual general congress of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will now hold in Akwa, Anambra State on December 4. According to a...
BY HASIYA HARUNA Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has inaugurated members of the Board of Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) University of Abuja....
The Nigeria Football Federation says it has asked Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr to explain reasons behind several breaches of the contract that he signed...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is facing a race against time to find a host for the 2020 Women’s African Cup of...
Egyptian club Zamalek has confirmed it will not travel to Qatar to play Champions League holders Esperance of Tunisia in February’s African Super Cup. The annual...
The Reforms Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has ended a two-day meeting in Benin City, taking a crucial step towards concluding its work and submitting...
Three Nigerian players are among the 30-man shortlist for the 28th edition of annual football awards, which will take place on Tuesday on 7 January 2020,...
On the sidelines of attending the CAF Executive Committee meeting last Thursday in Cairo, President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick, was in UK...
The level of performance of the Nigerian Olympic Eagles has been reflected in the selection of the tournament’s best eleven as no Nigerian player made the...
BY DANIEL ETCHELLS. Skeletal remains of at least 187 people were retrieved from the site of the new National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. African football lead event, the Africa Cup of Nations may change the calendar earlier approved in 2017 as indications emerged that the June-July...
If indications that www.sportsvillagesquare.com are getting are anything to go bye, there will be an almost a clean sweep of national football coaches of the Nigeria...
Abu Azeez may not be a household name back home in Nigeria, but football-governing body has seen his potentials and named him among the 10 players...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare says the issue of contract extension for Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr lies with the Nigeria Football...
BY JUDE OPARA The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has observed with deep concern the state of the country in the game of football in...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has hailed the move of the Minister of Sports, Sunday Akin Dare to request for a report on the performances of...
The International Krav and Maga Federation (IKMF) – Nigeria is organizing its second international self defence and unarmed training seminar in Lagos on Wednesday. According to...
BY DUNCAN MACKAY The Cross Internacional de Soria is set to make a unique piece of history when it stages the first international event under the...
Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba has reportedly turned down a coaching role with his former club in pursuit of a position within the Cote d’Ivoire FA. According...
As eaarlier reported by www.sportsvillagesquare.com last month just before the World Athletics Championships in Doha, the world governing body of athletics, the IAAF, has now officially...
BY LIAM MORGAN. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is taking its own Doping Hearing Panel to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after Mauritius player...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Sunday Dare has joined others in condoling with the family of one of his predecessors in office, Chief Alex Akinyele who passed on...
Chief Alex Akinyele, the first person to occupy the post of the Nigeria’s National Sports Commission (NSC) as Executive Chairman, has died in Lagos. he was...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare broke a ten-year jinx as he led an international delegation with the President of the International Olympics Committee...
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger returned to football on Wednesday after being named FIFA’s chief of global football development, ending any chance of a move to...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has revealed that the football governing body has reopened talks with Eberechi Eze, a player of Nigerian...
BY LIAM MORGAN. Former Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) President Jamal Malinzi has been banned by FIFA for 10 years after he was found guilty of misappropriating...
French Lagardere group said it will take “all measures” to preserve its rights in the ongoing dispute with the Confederation of African football (CAF) over marketing...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. If precedence is anything to go bye, Manu Garba, the coach of the Nigeria U-17 World Cup, will be relieved of his position...
The NFF helmsmen were in their numbers at the court hearing of the fraud allegations brought against them. Tension may have built ahead of the pronouncements...
Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kisarazu City, Japan for Team Nigeria to camp in the organic...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The goals scored by Nigeria’s hat-trik star, Ibrahim Said and that of Peter Olawale have been ranked by FIFA as among the bests...
Chieftains of the Nigeria Football Federation, including its President, Amaju Pinnick, have been discharged and acquitted on all counts of alleged corruption charges in a case...
The Nigeria Football Federation has issued a stern warning to its members, and particularly match officials, to guard against acts and practices that could be seen...
Cristiano Ronaldo may have beaten his rival, Lionel Messi to the France Football organized Ballon d’Or which results are expected to be unveiled on December 2....
BY DUNCAN MACKAY Zsolt Borkai has been dropped from the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) as he continues to pay the price for appearing in a video...
A special aircraft will transport the Olympic Flame to Tokyo next year, with an arrival ceremony due to be held on March 20. The Olympic Flame...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has reiterated the commitment of the ministry to support the development of grassroot sports and the nurturing...
Africa will have three slots in the revamped FIFA Club World Cup that will hold in China in 2021. FIFA has confirmed the tree slots for...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has reiterated the government’s commitment to support the development of grassroot sports, through a new initiative of...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sport Development, Sunday Dare, has assured that the Ministry will build on the capacity of programmes already earmarked for the youth...
The superlative performance against record World Cup winners, Brazil, Nigeria still drop a step to 35th in the monthly ranking released on Thursday by FIFA. Brazil...
The FIFA Council, which met this Thursday in Shanghai, China, made appointments of future hosts of FIFA competition but was loudly silence on the 2020 Women’s...
The FIFA Council convened this Thursday in Shanghai, China has voted on a number of key steps for the future of international tournaments, including a unanimous...
The English Premier League have drawn up plans that would see games played just over a week before the 2022 World Cup starts, reports the UK Daily Mail....
BY LIAM MORGAN Mustapha Berraf is facing calls to resign as President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) from a group within...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Football legend, Pele of Brazil was a special guest of honour at the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations final match, which...
Ethiopia’s African Games 10,000 metres champion Berehanu Tsegu has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for Erythropoietin (EPO), it has...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Mataima, Abuja Nigeria on Tuesday fixed Dec. 16 for the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF)...
BY LIAM MORGAN China is set to be awarded the hosting rights for the expanded 24-team FIFA Club World Cup in 2021, according to reports. The New...
Five -time world champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have landed in the city of Gioania, Brazil, where the team will tackle Hungary at the Estadio...
Moroccan news outlet, Morocco World News has reported that the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), which had previously ruled against Wydad in the seemingly unending...
Egyptian giants, Zamalek may not honour the CAF Super Cup proposed to hold in Qatar. It is the first time that the continental champion of the...
BY LIAM MORGAN North Korea and South Korea have been drawn together in the final round of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) qualifying for the women’s tournament...
TheChairman of the Publicity and Communication Sub-committee of the National Sports Festival tagged Edo 2020, Tony Akiotu, has explained the choice of the leopard as the...
BY LIAM MORGAN The Korea Football Association (KFA) has asked the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to consider sanctions against North Korea following the 0-0 draw between...
In a move that acknowledges an inevitable influence of politics on European soccer, teams from Kosovo and Russia will no longer be drawn to play each...
Burkina Faso is a contender to host the African Games in 2027, it has been revealed. Mustapha Berraf, the President of the Association of National Olympic...
NIgerian Olympic Committee President, Habu Gumel has been recognised for his service as treasurer of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa. The honour came...
Liverpool and Manchester City have both been fined by UEFA for incidents in recent Champions League matches. European champions Liverpool were fined 10,000 euros (S$15,000) for...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has restated the dogged posture and commitment of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development to rehabilitate, reposition...
National and international commendations have continued to trail the recently held Triennial Delegates Congress of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) in Port Harcourt, the...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has been described as a man of vision and a passionate supporter of sports in the state. Godwin Dudu-Orumen, Chairman of...
The Edo State Government is set to unveil the mascot of the 20th National Sports Festival tagged: “Edo 2020 ” in Benin, the Edo State capital...
The Nigeria Football Federation will hold the annual Match Commissioners’ seminar in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Thursday. Danlami Alanana, secretary of the NFF Match...
A fast rising media outfit, The Niche, on Tuesday in Lagos bestowed the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, with the Excellence in Sports and...
Former Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) general secretary Sayed Aghazada has received a five-year ban from all football-related activity for failing to report the sexual abuse of...
BY NANCY GILLEN. Iranian women have been able to buy a small number of tickets for Iran’s FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifying match against Cambodia, following...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. World football governing body, FIFA has joined in the mourning of Isaac Promise, the captain of the Nigerian team to the 2005 World...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT AT OLYMPIC HOUSE IN LAUSANNE The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will be asked by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) whether they will investigate all...
Nigeria Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has relocated his office to the M.K.O Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. According to a press release from...
Former FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo and ex-Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) general secretary Enrique Sanz have been banned for life by...
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