Tag: Nigeria Sports
Eguavoen To Coach Lagos Team
Nigeria National League side, City of David United, C.O.D, a Lagos-based team, have pulled off a major coup as they…
Glo Charges Eaglets To Win U-17 Trophy
Telecommunications giant, Globacom, has commended the Golden Eaglets’ campaigning in the ongoing African U-17 Championship on their qualification for the…
CAF U-17 Final: Eaglets On Revenge Mission —Coach
Nigeria coach Manu Garba says he will seek to avenge the 1-0 loss against Cote d’Ivoire in Saturday’s CAF U-17…
Tennis: N14.3m For CBN Open Winners
Winners of this year’s Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Senior Tennis Open will go home with the sum of N14.3…
DSTV League: Players Threaten Showdown
Stakeholders of Nigerian basketball were full of joy when Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, and DStv, sponsor of the men’s league…
Tennis: Nigerian Players Ready For CBN Open
With barely 48 hours to the commencement of the 34th Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Senior Tennis Open, some of…
Samuel Rallies 3SC Against El-Kanemi
Olabisi Samuel has urged his 3SC teammates not to get carried away by the goal-scoring spree that saw them defeat…
Focus On Tunisia Tie, Gaiya Charges Eaglets
Godfrey Gaiya, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Sports, has charged the Golden Eaglets to forget their 7-0 victory…
Globacom Hails Golden Eaglets
Leading telecommunications company, Globacom, has congratulated the U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets for booking a place in the semi finals…
Upset At Lagos FA Cup: CMD United Defeat First Bank
Defending champions, First Bank early today crashed out in the Round of 32 of the Lagos State Challenge Cup after…
CAF U-17 Tourney: Ugbade Plots Tunisia’s Fall
Assistant coach of the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria, Nduka Ugbade remains optimistic that the country will qualify for the final…
Lagos Table Tennis Stars Shine At Trials
Table Tennis players from Lagos topped the lists of selected ping pongers to be invited to camp by Nigeria Deaf…
NFF: Mba, Agbim Are Warri Wolves’ Players
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has reiterated that Super Eagles’ attacking midfielder, Sunday Mba, belongs to Nigeria Football Premier League,…
U-17 Tourney: Agents Barred From Seeing Eaglets
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has, for the umpteenth time warned unscrupulous persons parading themselves as soccer agents from distracting…
Eaglets Vow To Beat Congo
Players of the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have vowed to beat Congo when both teams clash tomorrow in the last…
Golden Eaglets Beg Nigerians
The national U-17 team, Golden Eaglets have offered their unreserved apologies to Nigerians following their shock 0-1 loss to Cote…
Eaglets’ll Qualify For U-17 World Cup —NFF
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has assured Nigerians that the Golden Eaglets will qualify for this year’s FIFA U-17 World…
‘Too Much Confidence Ruined Eaglets’
Former Green Eagles player, Felix Owolabi, has said that the Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets were overconfident going into their match against…
Yekini Was My Hero —Success
There are many pluses and football positives about the U-17 Championship as a tournament but very few of them come…
Nigerian Tennis In Shambles
With Nigeria’s level of exposure and the caliber of stars the sport has produced over the years, it is quite…
CAF U-17 Tourney: Eaglets Battle Ivory Coast
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets battle Ivory Coast today in their second group match of the CAF U-17 Championship in Morocco as…
Kareem Shines At Ademiluyi Tennis Tourney
Baaqi Kareem was a delight to watch when he defeated his opponent, Umar Kareem 2-1 to emerge the champion in…
I See Kelly FC Playing In Final
Team Manger of Kelly Football Club, Kelly Vincent was elated when his team booked a place in the Round of…
Polo: Nigeria Plans World Class Pitches
The Nigerian Polo Federation, NPF, has expressed the desire to ensure that polo pitches in Nigeria are transformed to world-class…
I Met My Wife As A Ball Boy
Taiwo Owolabi is a Nigerian professional tennis player based in Ibadan. He spoke with DAMILARE OKUNOLA about how tennis has…
U-17 Tourney: Defeat, Setback For Ghana —Coach
Chief Coach of Ghana’s Black Starlets, Samuel Bwesi Fabin has declared that the 1-6 hammering they got from Nigeria’s Golden…
Lagos FA Cup: Bridge Boys Beat Messiah FC
Bridge Boys Football Club of Lagos early today booked a place in the Round of 16 of the ongoing Lagos…
Team Nigeria Shine At Pepsi ICC Tourney
A 150-run fifth wicket partnership between captain Adekunle Adegbola and Oladotun Olatunji set up a comfortable six-wicket victory for Team…
CAF U-17 Tourney: Eaglets Face Ghana Test
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets will on Sunday begin their campaign in the Africa Under 17 Championships holding in Morocco from 13-27…
NUGA Zone F Qualifiers: UNILAG, FUNNAB Lead
As the preliminaries of the 2013 Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Zone F kicked off yesterday at the Sports Complex…