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Sports minister heap praise on Ese Brume
The sports minister Sunday Dare could not hold his excitement on the bronze won by Ear Brume in Doha at the world athletics championships.
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Time to focus on Tokyo 2020 – Sunday Dare
With the just concluded IAAF world athletics championships in Doha, all attention now shifts to Tokyo the words of the sports minister Sunday Dare
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NIGERIA REFEREES SET FOR 2019 FIFA MA COURSE
Selected members of the Nigeria Referees Association, NRA, are billed to take part in the 2019 FIFA Member Association Course for Elite Referees and...
Plateau Peacock Win Big To Push For Lead At The Prudent...
Plateau Peacocks continued their push to reclaim their lead on the league table as they easily won their game at the Prudent Energy Handball...
Zenith Bank Women Basketball League winds down …First Bank, Air Warriors,...
Zenith Bank Women’s League defending Champions, First Bank of Lagos have qualified for the National Final 8 from the Atlantic Conference Centre in Ibadan...
Nigeria Jordan Attah lone goal rescure Oestersund in Sweden.
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Nigeria kid on the block, Kadiri Jordan Attah superb strike was enough to rescued Oestersund FK against BK Hacken in a game...
Confluence Queens reward players for Super 4 ticket
Players and officials of Nigeria Women Premier League, NWPL side, Confluence Queens were celebrated on Saturday in Lokoja with award ceremony for picking one...
Malumfashi FC appoint Shola Ibrahim Adewuyi as head coach
Former Remo Stars and Kogi United coach, Shola Ibrahim Adewuyi has been appointed as the new head coach of Malumfashi Football Club of Katsina.
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Kano State FA Chief Dr Sherif Rabiu Inuwa Welcomes Teams To...
Chairman of Kano State FA Dr Sherif Rabiu Inuwa has welcomed participating teams to the third edition of the Ahlan Cup Pre Season Tournament.
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Football Fans Club of Nigeria Joins NFF, NWFL in Mourning dead...
President and members of Football Fans Club of Nigeria have paid a condolence visit to the Nigeria Police Female Machine Football Club of Uyo...
90 footballers screened for new football club, Amen FC
Ninety amateur and professional footballers across Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon participated in a 3-day screening exercise to select new crop of players for a...
New Sports Website, MatchCentre.ng Berths in Nigeria
Sports enthusiasts in Nigeria and Ghana can enrich their knowledge of sports, especially football as one of Nigeria’s leading financial newspaper, BusinessDay launched a...
Ikoyi Golf Club Agog as Indian Cup Returns
After years of missing from the golf calendar at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938, the famed Indian Cup stages a return this...
Ikoyi Club 81st Anniversary Climaxes in Style
The Ikoyi Club 1938 81st Anniversary which began with a charity walk on September 21 climaxed on Sunday with the anniversary party to close...
NIGERIAN BORN BAHRAIN ATHLETE STUNS THE WORLD IN DOHA BY Dr....
Nigerian Born Ebelechuku Agbapuonu, from Onisha, now Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain has stunned the world of sports at the on-going IAAF World Championships...
Match centres for FWC Champions FCT Secondary Schools Football Tournament confirmed
The six (6) match centres for the preliminary playoff stage of the FWC Champions FCT Secondary Schools Football Tournament have been approved, www.sports247.ng can...
OKOCHA, LADIPO, ODUNLADE ENDORSE GLO RECHARGE AND WIN PROMO
Ex- International, Austin J.J Okocha has described the new promo launched by national telecommunication company, Globacom, as a good opportunity for Nigerians to empower...
Cerebral palsy football association organises sensitization walk
The Cerebra Palsy football association of Nigeria has concluded plans to hold a sensitization walk this Sunday, 6th October, 2019 to commemorate the special...
Kano Pillars Management Congratulates Governor Ganduje On His Victory In Court
Kano Pillars FC has congratulates the state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for his victory at the Governorship election tribunal.
According to the chairman of...
Sports Minister speaks on Super Eagles, Brazil friendly
Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, on Saturday in Abuja said the upcoming friendly game between Nigeria and Brazil would expose...
181 Athletes participate in Agoma Open Festival
The annual Agoma Open Taekwondo Festival (AOTF) has witnessed great improvement as the 18th edition which kicked off on Wednesday in Kebbi State recorded...
Sports Minister relocates to MKO Abiola Stadium
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare has relocated his office to the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Dare stated that the...
VIDEO: Lagos Open Tennis Serves off Oct. 7
The 2019 edition of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) approved Lagos Open tournament is to serve off on Monday, October 7 through October 13...
Sports4all Rolls Out 4-Tier National Football Championship
An indigenous company, Sports4all Global Synergy, seeking to promote and develop all major sports in Nigeria, notably at the grassroots, has developed a 4-Tier...
Nigeria Amputee team calls for Aso Rock’s intervention
The Nigeria amputee football team, Special Eagles, currently in Angola for the Africa Amputee Football Cup of Nations, have called for urgent fatherly intervention...
Supporters club mourns ex- Eagles star Isaac Promise
Nigeria football supporters club has expressed its sadness over the death of former Super Eagles player and Beijing 2008 Olympics silver medalist, Isaac Promise,...
KWIRS win maiden Independence Cup
Kwara Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) in Ilorin has emerage champions of the maiden edition of the Independence Cup football competition in Kwara with a...
2019 NBBF Premier League: Continental battle begins on October 13
The 2019 NBBF Men’s Premier League season dunks off from October 13 to November 30.
The men’s league will see teams divided into the Atlantic...
Tokyo 2020: Ivorians hold Super Falcons to barren draw
Hosts, Les Femelles Elephantes of Cote d’Ivoire battled African champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria to a 0-0 draw in their Tokyo 2020 women’s football...
NFF shocked by death of Isaac Promise
The Nigeria Football Federation has described as ‘shocking’, reports on the evening of Thursday that former Nigeria U20 and U23 captain Isaac Promise had...
Wushu Kung-fu Federation Sets up Training Centre in Lagos
The Nigerian Wushu Kung-fu Federation has taken giant steps aimed at developing Kung-fu sport in the country by establishing a training centre at Fun...
N1m up for Grabs as Motorsport Debuts Oct. 6 in Lagos
The winner of the maiden Motorsport Auto Fiesta Championship will get N1million, organisers of the event have announced.
Motorsport Auto Fiesta Championship will take place...
‘Nigeria failed to take advantage of technological, scientific advancements in development...
Independence Day is a time of joy for us all when we remind ourselves of how far we have advanced from the past to...
18 schools chase glory as Private Schools Games begins in Lagos
The second edition of the Private Schools Games began in Lagos yesterday 18 secondary schools contesting for laurels in athletics, basketball, football and tennis.
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Bunubunu athletes to honour Obiano at Onitsha City Marathon
Top Nigerian and Kenyan athletes, being managed by renowned Sports and Culture Managers, Bunubunu Culture and Sporting Limited, will storm Onitsha, Anambra State on...
Dream Stars Ladies Beat Invincible Angels To Keep NWPL Status
Dream Stars Ladies defeated Invincible Angels 4-2 via penalty shoot out after the regulation time ended 1-1 in the 2019 NWPL Relegation play -off...
GREGORY IMAFIDON FOUNDATION FOOTBALL TOURNEY SET TO KICK OFF
The 3rd edition of the Gregory Imafidon Foundation football tournament is set to kick off in Benin City, Edo State. The highly rated youth...
FWC Champions FCT Secondary Schools Tourney: We are not here to...
The LOC for the maiden FWC Champions FCT Schools Football Tournament, Wednesday dismissed fears that it is coming to replace other existing competitions in...
FWC Champions explains private schools exemption from maiden FCT schools football...
The maiden edition of the FWC Champions FCT Football Tournament for public schools has already generated a level of attention from relevant stakeholders.
However, there...
OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND FOR PARTICIPANTS OF FWC TOURNAMENT – PASTOR YOLA
The Chairman of FWC Champions FC Pastor Yakubu Yola has noted that participating secondary schools and students in the forthcoming football tournament will have...
LAWAL, AGOYE COMMEND PLAYERS AFTER PRE SEASON TRIUMPH
Team Manager, Shooting Stars Sports Club. (3SC) of Ibadan Dimeji Lawal and the head coach of the team Edith Agoye, have thumbed up the...
VETERANS FOOTBALL CLUB OF IWAYA CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY
It was all funfair on Tuesday as the veterans football club of Iwaya celebrated its first anniversary.
In doing so the veterans played a friendly...
U23 AFCON: Olympic Eagles up against Zambia, Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa
Cup holders Nigeria will battle Cote d’Ivoire, Zambia and South Africa at the group stage of the 3rd U23 Africa Cup of Nations taking...
Sunsel FC export , Jordan Attah dazzling in Sweden.
With just few months in Sweden , Jordan Attah is leaving no stone unturned with his impressive run in Allsvenskan league .
So far Jordan...
Jansen Foo to referee Brazil, Nigeria friendly
Singaporean Jansen Foo has been appointed as the referee for the prestige international friendly match between Nigeria and Brazil taking place in Singapore on...
Tokyo 2020: Falcons eye outright win against Cote d’Ivoire
African champions Nigeria will go for an outright win against Cote d’Ivoire in their Tokyo 2020 Olympics women’s football tournament, African qualifying second-round first-leg...
NFF mourns death of two Police Machine FC players
The Nigeria Football Federation says it is deeply saddened by the death on Tuesday night of two players of Nigeria Women Professional League club,...
NWFL condoles with Police Female Machine on death of Ekong, Saturday
The board of the Nigeria Women Football League, has sent an official letter of condolence signed by the Chief Operating Officer, Alhaji Ayo Abdulrahman,...
Supporters club condoles police machine team over death of its players
The Nigeria Football Supporters Club have sent its heartfelt condolences to the Police machine team over the death of two of its female players,...
Zenith Bank Set to Take over Headmasters’ Cup in Delta
After the success recorded since sponsoring the revived Delta State Principal Cup, the official sponsor of the competition, Zenith Bank PLC, is on the...
