NTF Rolls Out 12 Tennis Youngsters In Lome
Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) has lined out 12 young players in Lome, Togo for the Africa Junior Tennis Championship qualifiers in Lome, Togo. The team made of six boys and six girls will be coached by Abel Ubiebi and Patience Onebamboin at the competition, which sports247.ng learnt will begin on Tuesday and run till next Wednesday. Mary Udofia, Rebecca Ekpeyong and...
Ocheho: Handball Federation Has Weathered All Storms
Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) president, Sam Ocheho says he is happy that the body has been able to weather a lot of storms and come out victorious. Sports247.ng reports that Ocheho is taking stock of the handball body's executive committee's activities in the past year, and declared that they deserve a pass mark tor turning the tide around. Ocheho recalled...
NNL Super 8: Shooting Stars bounce back with deserved win
Wounded Shooting Stars showed recovery after their 3-0 humiliating defeat to Remo Stars as they humbled Delta Force 2-0 in the Nigeria National League (NNL) Super 8 on Monday afternoon. Stars Head Coach Edith Agoye opted for a new formation, 4-2-1-3, which allowed the side to display some free-flowing football. Shooting Stars skipper Ayobami Junior and Opeoluwa Oluwafemi scored a goal...
Plateau United congratulate Coach Bros on bouncing baby girl
The management of 2017 Nigeria Professional Football League Champions, Plateau United Football Club of Jos has congratulated it's Technical Director, Ahmed Ibrahim, popularly Know as Coach Bros over the arrival of a new bouncing baby girl to his family. General Manager of the club, Pius Henwan who spoke through the media officer of the Club, Albert Dakup says the club...
Nigerian Elite Marathoners Urge Governors To Emulate Ambode
Elite marathoners from a cross-section of Nigeria especially the Northern part of the country has called on other governors to emulate the Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode by initiating marathon and road races in their states. Most of the elite athletes who are preparing for the 4th edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon said apart from the Lagos...
BURUJ PLAYERS RETURN TO TRAINING TODAY!
After about three-week break granted them by the management to celebrate Christmas and New Year festivities with family and friends, players and technical crew of Buruj Sports Academy are due to return to work today Monday as they commence their intensive training. Both the new entrants and the old ones have been arriving in camp since weekend and they are...
Pinnick: AFCON 2019 Host Will Emerge On Merit
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has promised that the continental governing body, Confederation of African Football (CAF) will come out with a credible choice based on merit as the host country for this year's Africa Cup of Nations. While hinting that the new host would be made known on Wednesday in Dakar, Senegal, Sports247.ng reports that Pinnick,...
SUPER 8 REFEREES REJECT SUBSTANDARD HOTEL
Match officials handling the ongoing Bet9ja Nigeria National League Super Eight (8) playoffs holding at Enyimba International Stadium, Aba, rejected what they described as substandard hotel allocated to them by the organisers of the Super 8 tournament. The hotel located close to the stadium comes far short of acceptable standard for top class referees, hence the justification in the referees...
PRESIDENCY ORDERS WITHDRAWAL OF ‘FAKE NEWS’ PRESS RELEASE ON NFF
A press release in circulation in the last 24 hours, to the effect that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Amaju Pinnick, the NFF Chairman, is fake news because anyone familiar with the President’s unmitigated and unshakable commitment to the due processes of the law will not make such assumptions of the President. The position of...
Adjusted Times of DAY TWO matches of the Bet9ja NNL Super eight,Aba 2019
Following activities of our hosts club ,Enyimba Int'l Football Club evening of today, time of matches have been adjusted as follows: Kogi Utd v Kada City FC Kaduna - 10AM Delta Force v 3SC of Ibadan -12PM Bendel Insurance of Benin v Remo Stars of Ogun - 2PM.
