Latest Sports News in Nigeria

Nigeria's under 18 women handball team players are confident that they will make the country proud at the 19th Africa Women Youth Handball Championship which will hold in Monastir, Tunisia. This was after they played their final…

All eyes will be on the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, as the journey to discover the next set of basketball stars in Nigeria commences between 21 Monday and 25, Friday of August. Tagged 2023 Olumide Oyedeji…

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has secured arrangement for a selected players to play a top Spanish Laliga side as part of an exchange programme. NPFL chairman, Gbenga Elegbeleye said yesterday at the inauguration of the NPFL…

Cristiano Ronaldo launched a furious tirade towards his own coaching bench at half-time of his Al-Nassr side’s surprise defeat to Al-Wehda in Saudi Arabia. In the King Cup of Champions semi-final, Al-Nassr were 1-0 down at the break and…

Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has shifted the training camp for the final leg of preparations for the Africa U18 and U20 championships to Asaba, the capital of Delta state with the arrival date also shifted by a day. The…

Just as it hosted the first Africa's FIFA World Cup in 2010, table tennis is making another history in Durban wuth WTThe world event is billed to come alive at Durban International Convention Centre between May 20 and 28, 2023, in Durban,…

Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development has said the reclassification of sports from recreation to business as contained in the Sports Industry Policy will ensure our sporting infrastructures will never suffer any neglect…

Former deputy general director at FC Spartak Moscow, Vladimir Kuzmichev, has given the nod for former Nigerian international and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner Victor Moses to spearhead the Red and Whites attack following an injury to…

Napoli striker, Victor Osimhen, has received the Power Horse Player of the Year award for his outstanding performance during 2022. The 13th edition of the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards, organised with the Dubai Sports Council, was held in…

Manchester City cruised into the FA Cup fourth round with a routine 4-0 victory over a desperately poor Chelsea at Etihad Stadium. This was a far cry from what has traditionally been a hugely competitive meeting between two Premier…

African table tennis champion Quadri Aruna has confirmed his transfer from Bundesliga side TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell to Russian champion Fakel-Gazprom Orenburg for the remaining part of the 2022/2023 season. Late last year, Aruna…

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag will be bitterly disappointed following the recent news of the club’s major transfer target of 2022, Cody Gakpo, falling into enemy territory and he has been urged to sign Napoli hitman Victor Osimhen.…

Warriors Academy Basketball court, Ilupeju will come alive from Wednesday by 10:00am for the Generation Next Final 8. The four day event powered by Olumide Oyedeji Youth Foundation will draw the curtain on the basketball competition…

Dutch pundit Johan Derksen admits it's 'sad' seeing Hakim Ziych and Sofyan Amrabat playing for Morocco. Both Chelsea attacker Ziyech and Fiorentina midfielder Amrabat are Dutch born and bred. Derksen, after seeing France defeat…

Barcelona management are rethinking the future of Memphis Depay. Sport says the sporting department had planned to release him to free up a spot in January, but the difficulty in registering signings due to La Liga regulations has put…

Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, wants a new personal trainer to help him improve on the technical and tactical aspects of his game. Osimhen has been phenomenal for the Partenopeans this season. The Nigerian striker has registered…

Head Coach Isah Ladan Bosso has announced that he expects his Nigeria U20 boys to get even better after a haul of 17 goals in three friendly games at the start of preparations in Abuja for next year’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations.…

Super Eagles goalkeeping challenge may soon be over with the emergence of young Crystal Palace goalkeeper, Owen Olamidayo Goodman, who has committed his international future to Nigeria, despite being eligible to play for England and Canada…

Urgent need to institute a better –packaged, fulfilling and more fruitful Nigeria Professional Football League that will germinate a more beneficial football economy for all stakeholders was the crux of a meeting on Monday which the…

Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) is ready to host the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 Africa Division 2 World Cup qualifiers in September. Musa Ehizoje, the NCF’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) stated in Abuja on Monday,…