Rafael Nadal survived a test from Nick Kyrgios to move into the Australian Open quarter-finals with a four-set win on Monday.
Novak Djokovic set up a semi-final against Roger Federer after maintaining his unbeaten record against Milos Raonic in their tenth meeting, winning 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 to advance to the last four.
Gombe United football club has confirmed the death of Goalkeeper Ismaila Shagari on Tuesday morning.
National table tennis coach Nosir Bello has clarified Nigeria’s current situation amidst confusion in some sections of the media that Nigeria has crashed out of the table tennis event for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
2019 Nigeria women Premier basketball league most valuable player and Air warriors player Murjanatu Musa has revealed her desire to make the cut to the Olympic qualifying tournament in Belgrade with Nigeria’s D’Tigress as she gets set to leave for Belgrade on the 31st of January 2020 ahead of the women national team camping and execution of the Olympic qualifying tournament.
Africa champion and new world number 3 in the 68kg women wrestling category Blessing Oborududu has promised to maintain her continental dominance ahead of next month’s Africa wrestling championship in Algeria after the Nigeria wrestling Federation released the list of wrestlers that will be representing Nigeria yesterday.
Oborududu who recently got a career high ranking of been number 3 in the world in a chat with www.brila.net disclosed been highly motivated to maintain her dominance and expressed her target of winning Gold at the Africa wrestling championship in Algiers slated for the 3rd to the 9th of February 2020.
“Normally I do train and that training is continuous so by the special grace of God I will maintain my title in the African championship. Though we are not in the camp but we’re still training individually because that is one thing that keeps us going in wrestling and that Gold medal will not pass me by.
Team manager of NPFL side and CAF Confederation cup campaigners Enugu Rangers Barrister Amobi Ezeaku has stated that the Flying Antelopes are taking positives despite their CAF Confederation cup ouster following the huge 1-0 win recorded against Pyramids FC of Egypt in Cairo to end the Egyptian side’s unbeaten run in the Confederation cup.
Amobi speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the win for the Flying Antelopes was equally Rangers 5th game without a defeat which also indicate that the team is gaining momentum which will be needed for a successful continuation and campaign in the league.
“We are very grateful for the win against FC Pyramids, we understand that it was meant to be a tough game and it really was but we have to look at the positives, this is the 5th game we are going without a defeat and we want to maintain the momentum focusing on the NPFL as we finalise our campaign against El Masry of Egypt on Sunday at the Cathedral and then we look ahead with great optimism and we know that the future holds a lot for the club.”
There could be two departures at Vicarage Road before the end of the month with Watford willing to let Super Eagles forward Isaac Success and his compatriot Tomiwa Dele-Bashiru leave on loan.
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