US Open champion Naomi Osaka managed to keep a lid on her simmering temper and powered to a 6-4 6-1 win over Elina Svitolina on Wednesday to book a spot in the Australian Open semi-finals for the first time.
Nigeria’s Bobsleigh star Simidele Adeagbo says she was excited to have competed at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) Intercontinental Cup in Utah, the USA on Tuesday.
Tyson Fury’s promoter Frank Warren says Anthony Joshua’s possible next opponent Jarrell Miller, “means nothing” to his fellow Americans.
Kano Pillars Technical Adviser Ibrahim Musa has pleaded for more support from the Sai Masu Gida fans as the Club begin their quest to land a trophy come the end of the season.
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries FC head coach Fidelis Ilechukwu says Rangers International of Enugu will be a big test for his young side but insists they have what it takes to pick all three points.
The League Management Company (LMC ) have hammered with hefty punishment Remo Stars football club after its fans took laws into their hands and assaulted match officials after their 1-1 with Bendel Insurance at the Gateway Stadium on Sunday.
After the final whistle of the game on Sunday, fans of the team assaulted the center referee who wrongfully ruled the hosts’ late minute goal for offside.
The league organizers said after reviewing the incidence, the Club has been slapped with a total of N6m and has banished to play its next three home matches in Osogbo.
President of the club, Kunle Soname was also banned from further participation in the next three NPFL matches and fined N1 million for granting a media interview in which he made comments that brought the league to disrepute…
The club’s team manager Yinka Ajayi was not left of the punishment as he has been suspended for the rest of the season from all NPFL matches.
Remo Stars will suffer three points deduction should such incident repeat itself again during the season while the club asked to produce two of their supporters named as Akintan Yinka and Zico.
The six-count charge by the LMC ranged from access to restricted area by unauthorised persons and blocking match officials from accessing the dressing room (B13.52), encroachment onto the field of play immediately after the match (Rule B13.18), throwing of objects including stones towards the match officials, failure to provide adequate security for match officials when they were attacked by the club’s supporters (B8.21) and conduct of officials and supporters of the club in the disturbances capable of bringing the game to disrepute.
The charge read, “you are in breach of Appendix E1.1 of the Code of Conduct for Club Officials (Framework and Rules of the Nigeria Professional League Football League), in that on Sunday, 20th January 2019, in the course of the Match Day 3 Fixture: Remo Stars vs. Bendel Insurance, by your conduct and utterances, being an official of a club, you failed to set a positive example for others, particularly players and supporters”.
Former national team player Yisa Sofoluwe has charged coaches handling age grade national football teams in Nigeria to be more concerned about grooming players into a complete model rather than winning at the expense of the real essence of the true development expected at that level.
Usain Bolt is giving up on his dream of forging a career as a professional footballer following his try-out last year with Australian side Central Coast Mariners.
In remarks reported by Jamaican media outlets on Tuesday, the eight-time Olympic sprint champion said he had drawn a line under his hopes of playing football as a professional.
The 32-year-old athletics icon had told reporters last month he had not given up hope of becoming a footballer.
However, at an event in Kingston on Monday, Bolt said he now planned to concentrate on his business career.
“I don’t want to say it wasn’t dealt with properly, but I think we went about it, not the way we should and you learn your lesson, you live and you learn,” he was quoted by Television Jamaica as saying.
“It was a good experience. I really enjoyed just being in a team and it was must different from track and field and it was fun while it lasted.
“The sports life is over, so I’m now moving into different businesses, I have a lot of things in the pipeline, so as I say, I’m just dabbling in everything and trying to be a businessman now.”
Bolt was speaking as he handed over a $1 million cheque to help fund Jamaica’s team at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in the United Arab Emirates in March.
The star of the Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympics meanwhile said he was concerned at failure of a new generation of Jamaican sprinters to emerge following his 2017 retirement.
Bolt questioned whether young athletes in Jamaica handed lucrative contracts were being given too much too soon.
“A lot of these athletes I think it’s much easier now for them,” he said.
“When we were coming up it was a struggle, we didn’t get big contracts when we left high school.
“I think a lot of the athletes aren’t motivated any more. When they leave high school and they get a big contract they are happy with whatever.”
Former Reading and Super Eagles Defender Sam Sodje has vehemently denied reports suggesting his brothers including former Nigeria World Cup defender Efetobore Sodje were jailed by a United Kingdom court ‘for taking charity money’.
LMC players advisor and former CAF champions league winner Victor Ezeji has urged Nigerian club sides featuring in any of the CAF inter-club competition to consider rotating their squad as they begin their domestic campaign later today on matchday 4 of the NPFL.