If there has been a sport that has witnessed a downward slide in Nigeria over the years, it has to be tennis. Most of the players are declining in form and they find it difficult to get to the very top in the sport, especially when they are competing with their colleagues from other parts [...]
Itire Ikate LCDA football team got back to their winning ways over the weekend with a 6-0 mauling of Igbogbo Baiyeku LCDA football team in one of the Lagos Junior League matches played during the weekend at the Onikan Stadium. Itire Ikate were on the rampage as Ikechukwu Azu, Uku Williams, Salisu Yaro, Uche Igwe [...]
Shooting Stars Sports Club, 3SC, of Ibadan, Oyo State won their second home game this season with a 1-0 win over Ocean Boys to ease the pressure on coach Festus Allen in the Nigeria Premier League, NPL. Ighodaro Osaguona was the match hero once again, courtesy of a 52nd minute winner at the Obafemi Awolowo [...]
Coach of Kano Pillars Basketball Club , Sanni Ahmed, in this interview explains how his team were allegedly robbed of the DSTV-sponsored Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, league title last year by the eventual winners, Royal Hoopers of Port Harcourt. He also talks about D’Tigers’ chances at the London Olympics. The 2011/2012 league season will dunk-off [...]
Chief Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi, has continued to receive plaudits from some Nigerians for recalling back Blackburn of England star, Yakubu Aiyegbeni to the team. Yakubu and 10 other foreign-based players were called up to the Eagles by Keshi ahead of the Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda on 29 February in Kigali. [...]
After what could be described as a long and tortuous wait, Rangers International of Enugu have finally released the International Transfer Certificate, ITC of their former player, Brendan Ogbu, who joined Heartland of Owerri this season. Ogbu disclosed this to P.M.Sports today from Owerri that his former club denied him an opportunity of signing for [...]
Age falsification has become a recurrent decimal especially in Nigeria, where football players go to extremes to represent the country in major championships. This will not sound strange to pundits of the game in Nigeria anymore because age falsification seems to be the norm rather than exception nowadays. Even the parents or guardians of these [...]