Nigerian born and Chelsea striker, Tammy Abraham has said that he remains committed to his country of birth, England despite being approached by the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation last week, brila.net can report.
Two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya appears to be preparing for a career outside of athletics after joining a women’s football club.
Kenneth Omeruo has finally broken his silence on life on the periphery of the Chelsea first team, following his permanent move to CD Leganes this summer.
President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation Professor Yaya Ukwuenya has urged the Nigeria Cricket national team to take advantage of her invitation to compete for a world cup spot after been invited to replace Zimbabwe who got suspended by the International Cricket Council for government interference.
Ukwuenya speaking in a chat gathered by brila.net said the Nigerian side should try as much as possible to give their best shot after having initially missed out on qualification to this point at the world cup early qualifying round.
He urged the team to emulate the U19 who have their place already in the 2020 T20 U19 world cup.
“We have spoken to the boys about this and we are looking at things differently now, there are 6 qualifying places up for grabs and we will be faced with some of the toughest teams in the qualifiers.
We have prepared the mind of these players to see the obstacles and try to overcome them and qualify.”
Nigeria U23 defender Ebube Duru has stated that the Dream Team will have to work better for result to work out well for Nigeria in the return leg of the CAF Africa U23 cup of nations qualifier following Thursday’s 1-0 defeat to Sudan.
Nigeria’s U23 team were ultimately undone by the harsh weather on Thursday, and it played a part in the 1-0 defeat to Sudan in their AFCON qualifying match, says Merreikh Al-Fasher Head Coach Mohamed Azeez.
Assistant coach of Nigeria’s men basketball national team D’Tigers Odaudu Ogoh has stated that the Nigeria basketball team will be going all out as they begin their classification tie today against CIV to stay stay very on course to finish as the highest rank African team which would help secure a ticket to the 2020 Olympics.
Serena Williams will face Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu for the US Open title as the American set herself up for another attempt to clinch a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam singles title.
Nigeria U23 national team forward Sunday Adetunji has blamed the dream team’s 1-0 defeat to Sudan yesterday on ill luck after the team failed to live up to it prematch billing of winning outrightly in Sudan.
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