Author: Adebanjo Ogunseye

Sunday was an emotional day for MFM FC Midfielder Akuneto Chijioke, as his goal ensured the team picked a point against Enyimba and also preserve their winning run at the Agege Stadium in the League this season. However, Chijioke told www.brila.net it was a sad day for him because he lost his newborn child 24 hours before the matchday. Speaking in a post match presser, the visibly emotional player revealed he only honored the game because his wife asked him to, and he dedicated the goal to the now late infant. ‘The goal means a lot to me and I…

Enyimba Head Coach Usman Abd’Allah has told www.brila.net his team is in Lagos to win and confirm their superiority over home side, MFM FC. With just three points separating the sides, Abd’Allah insists the pressure is on MFM, who are looking for a first league win over the 7 times league winners. The Olukoya Boys have also not lost at home this season, pucking 18points from all six matches at the Agege Stadium, and have kept five clean sheets.

For the third consecutive year, Nigerian women wrestlers picked up five African gold medals and nabbed the women’s wrestling team title.

Former Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger is back to football, although not management and it was in his home country of France.

Second placed Lokomotiv Moscow kept the chase for the Russia Premier League title and a UEFA Champions League playoff spot alive on Saturday with a narrow 1-0 win over Dynamo Moscow, and forgotten Super Eagles, Bryan Idowu checked 90 minutes in the game.

In 2013 he hit the heights of international football winning the Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria, but whatever is midfielder Fegor Ogude up to these days? Well, the answer might not be very pleasing to many fans as the 31 year-old facing tougher times in the Russia Premier League.

Holders AS Sale fought back in the Q3 to tie Nigeria’s Civil Defenders 69-69 in the first-leg of their Africa Basketball League Elite 8 clash at the National Stadium Indoor Sport Hall, Abuja on Saturday.

Simy Nwankwo delivered a perfect response to his recent Super Eagles snub netting a brace in Crotone’s 2-1 road win against Carpi on Saturday in the Serie B.

Imama Amapakabo and the Dream Team technical crew have been advised to perfect their plans to stop Sudan forward Waleed Hamid when the sides go head to head in the third round of the 2019 CAF U23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

Relegation threatened Remo Stars have hit another low following the sensational claim by its Coach Kennedy Boboye, that his team’s pre season form as well as the player’s performance was a “flash in the pan.”