Author: Brila

President of the Rugby Africa, also known as Rugby Afrique Mr Abdulazeez Bougja made the comments while speaking with the radio anchor, Anthony Bekederemo on Center circle airing on the sports Radio, 88.9 Brila fm. Bougja, had maintained during the show that the crisis rocking the Nigeria Rugby union should be resolved by and means, calling on every member of the committee, and members of the sports ministry to come together and sit in a bid to resolving the crisis. In his words “we sent a representative to the first AGM in Abuja, but there were confusions between the Rugby…

Alexis Sanchez has been ruled out of Arsenal’s 2017/18 curtain raiser with Leicester City after he suffered an abdominal strain in training.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation has opted not to renew the contract of William Voigt as Coach of D’Tigers ahead of the 2017 AfroBasket Championship.

Emmanuel Amuneke believes he has outgrown the junior national team coaching jobs and so his name will not feature in the over 60 applicants for the Boys U17 and U20 and other national teams.

Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has accepted a wildcard invitation to make her seventh appearance at the China Open in October. Sharapova won the China event in 2014 and also made the final in 2012. Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has accepted an invitation to make her seventh appearance at the China Open in Beijing. After a thigh injury kept her away from Wimbledon and the entire grass court season, an arm injury forced her to withdraw last week from her comeback tournament at the Stanford Classic. Since her return in April from a 15-month doping ban, Sharapova has…

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has ruled out selling Gareth Bale this summer despite Jose Mourinho going public with his interest in the Welshman.   The Manchester United boss admitted he would ‘fight’ to bring Bale to Old Trafford if Real decided to cash-in on the former Tottenham star.   But after watching Bale help the Real Madrid defeat Manchester United yesterday, Perez revealed that at no point had he thought about letting him go.   ‘I don’t contemplate selling Bale, he’s important for us and is one of the best in the world,’ Perez said after the showpiece game…

London – Botswana star Isaac Makwala was barred from running in the men’s 400m world final on Tuesday because he was suffering from an infectious disease, athletics’ governing body confirmed. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) issued a statement after the Botswana team claimed the 30-year-old Makwala was fit and healthy and should not have been turned away from the warm-up track ahead of the final. However, the IAAF insisted that he needed to be placed in quarantine for 48 hours – ending on Wednesday – as he was infected with the highly contagious norovirus. Public Health England revealed that 30…

As the World Athletics Championship enters its sixth day, attention of many sports-loving Nigerians will be focused on two athletes, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and Ese Brume in the long jump event today. The Cyprus-based Brume, with a personal best jump of 6.83m and season best of 6.64m is in Group A, while Okagbare is in Group B. Although both Okagbare and Brume failed to meet the 6.75m qualification standard set for the long jump event in the 2017 IAAF Championship, Brume had declared before jetting out from Lagos a few days ago that anything could happen in London “I am going…

Former African football head Issa Hayatou has hit out at comments made by his successor, Ahmad, about Cameroon’s readiness to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

A narrow 2-1 win that gives Real Madrid the 2017 Super Cup, but a general gulf in quality between them and Manchester United that explains why the Spanish side won it and why they are European champions. Jose Mourinho’s side still look very far off this level, and look even more like they could do with a forward of, oh, maybe Gareth Bale’s level. The winger had set up the brilliant Isco’s clinching goal and was supremely effective, but Real’s whole attack just looked so effervescent in contrast to Manchester United ’s. Three positives for Manchester United at least were a…