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Coach Salisu Yusuf BY KUNLE SOLAJA. If existing statistics are anything to go by, the Nigerian Olympic Eagles should qualify for the football event of Paris...
Head Coach Salisu Yusuf has invited 16 overseas-based players to the team’s camp in preparation for this month’s U23 AFCON final qualifying fixture against Guinea. Among...
Guinea U-23 team BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the Nigeria’s Olympic Eagles host their Guinean counterparts in the first leg of the last lap to Morocco 2023...
CAF appoints Sudanese officials for Nigeria, Guinea U23 AFCON qualifying match Kunle Solaja Your RatingUser Rating: 0 (0 votes) The Confederation of African Football has appointed...
Moshood Abiola Stadium is Olympic Eagles’ nest in match against Guinea Kunle Solaja Your RatingUser Rating: 0 (0 votes) Nigeria’s U23 boys, Olympic Eagles are meeting...
Nigeria, the 1996 Olympic champions, will press ahead with their objective of a second Olympic football gold medal when they host Guinea in an U23 Africa...
A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics, the...
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that any attempt to squeeze Moscow out of international sport because of what it calls its special...
Ukraine will consider boycotting next year’s Olympic Games in Paris if athletes from Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete, the country’s Sports Minister Vadym Guttsait...
Lawyers for Usain Bolt have alleged that more than $12.7 million (£10.3 million/€11.7 million) is missing from an account belonging to the eight-time Olympic gold medallist....
FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino has expressed his regrets after former Cameroon international Modeste Mbami passed away on Saturday following a cardiac arrest at the age of...
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...
Manolo Romero, who was pivotal to the growth of the Olympic Games globally by founding the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), has died at the age of...
A Minsk court sentenced in absentia former Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia and political activist Alexander Opeykin to 12 years in prison for calling for sanctions and...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has offered his best wishes to legendary Brazilian footballer Pelé, whose health has worsened at a hospital in São...
Two-time Kenyan Olympic champion David Rudisha said Monday he was grateful to be alive after surviving a plane crash on the weekend in southern Kenya. The...
History has repeated itself as Nigeria again secured a 2-0 win in a competitive international match. The U-23 team guning for the Olympics beat Tanzania 2-0...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Nigeria Football Federation have changed the narratives ahead of Saturday’s Africa U23 Cup of Nations cracker between Nigeria...
Aklesso Gnama, the Togolese who refereed Plateau United 0-1 home loss to Tanzania two years ago will handle Saturday’s crucial Olympic Games qualifiers of Nigeria and...
Two penalties, one in each half and at opposing sides, guaranteed that Saturday’s Africa U23 Cup of Nations qualifying match between Nigeria and Tanzania in Dar...
The U23 Boys’ National Team, otherwise known as Olympic Eagles, on Friday continued their build-up ahead of the upcoming 2023 Africa U23 Cup of Nations qualifying...
In preparation for their 2023 Africa U23 Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against Tanzania this month, the Nigeria U23 team will begin camping in Ibadan on...
Only once has a Nigerian football team played a competitive match at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan. That was 10 June 1989 when the Super...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering a return to competition of Russian athletes who do not support the country’s invasion of Ukraine, IOC president Thomas...
Egypt will apply to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2036, the Egyptian youth and sports minister said in a statement on Saturday, a bid that...
Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the Commonwealth, who opened the Olympic Games at Montreal in 1976 and London in 2012, has died at the age...
Germany’s president asked for forgiveness on Monday for his country’s failure to protect Israeli athletes and team memberswho were murdered 50 years ago at the 1972...
The draw for the qualifiers of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2023 will take place on Thursday 18 August 2022 at 13:00 Cairo time...
Former Super Falcons coach Sam Okpodu and veteran journalist Dr Jonnie Isebor will be among the speakers who will gather at The Fellow Hall, Lanham, Maryland,...
Former Olympic champion Mo Farah revealed in an article published on Monday (July 11) he was brought to Britain illegally under the name of another child...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of its rights to organise boxing events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games due...
It may have been 26 years since Nigeria’s biggest football feat in the world but the memory has refused to fade. Erudite scholar and journalist, Mumini...
Nigeria’s basketball teams, D’Tigers and D’Tigress which have been sensational on the continent and the female team making waves globally, are now on international exile. This...
Salisu Yusuf Almost four years after being sidelined as the head coach of the home-based Nigerian national team, Salisu Yusuf is back on the saddle. This...
Senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the New York...
Lagos State Chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria has joined members of the sports fraternity in felicitating with former Nigeria Olympics Committee Public Relations...
A summary of some measures taken by sports federations following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) recommendations to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from competing...
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