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Amuzie: “Lugano looks almost certain for me,”

Stanley Amuzie has revealed he is likely to join Belgian side Lugano on a season-long loan deal from Serie A side Sampdoria. Amuzie, 21, who was among Nigeria’s 35-man provisional squad for the 2016 Olympics signed a three-year deal with Sampdoria last year. The Former Olhanense player did not feature for Sampdoria’s first team last season after he rejoined the club after the Olympics. According to Completesportnigeria.com, Amuzie said: “I have two offers I’m considering at the moment but the one from Lugano looks almost certain for me,” He will have the opportunity to feature in the UEFA Europa League,…

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Mikel will be back to the Eagles team- Rohr

Mikel is set to return as the Captain of the Nigeria National team after Eagles disappointing defeat to Bafana Bafana. John Obi Mikel missed out on the 2019 AFCON qualifier game against South Africa as a result of an injury and Super Eagles’ Manager, Gernot Rohr, is hoping to have him back in the team before the country’s Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier against Cameroon in August. Chairman of the NFF technical committee, Chris Green met with his colleagues on Tuesday were a decision was made on the team list being reviewed before its publication. According to a source in…

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Ndidi ranked among the most valuable U21 players in the world

Nigeria’s star Wilfred Ndidi is ranked as the 10th most expensive U21 youngsters by CIES Football Observatory. Wilfred Ndidi who signed for Leicester City in January has been ranked among the most valuable U21 players with his worth at €30.3m. The Leicester City midfielder started his senior career at Genk. He received the award as the third-best young player in the Belgian league for the 2015–16 season and has continued to show impressive performances in the Premier League. Marcus Rashford and Gabriel Jesus were the two other players from the English Premier League clubs ranked at No. 3 and No.…

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Awolusi wants funds to be released for AFBC

Awolusi Olaiya is unhappy as Sports Ministry delays the release of funds for Nigeria’s representatives at the Africa Boxing Championship (AFBC) in Brazzaville. Nigerian Boxer Awolusi Olaiya has lamented on the unavailability of funds as day of the AFBC draws near. Awolusi was among the twelve selected to represent Nigeria in the tournament scheduled to take place from 17-25 June. He stated that funds are supposed to have been released, since the idea of preparing well for the championship is to qualify for the AIBA World Championships holding in Hamburg in August. “The Africa Boxing Championship is starting on Saturday…

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Umar: ‘FIBA will decide new NBBF board’

Umar speaks as tension continues to grow over the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) Elections held on Monday in Kano and Tuesday in Abuja. President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Tijani Umar has stated that the Federation is facing a herculean task over the past few days as two Presidents have been elected from two different elections. There was once trouble in the NBBF after some Board members pulled out of an election, because of the exclusion of one of their members whom they believed was supposed to contest the election. And now, there’s confusion over who is the new…

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McGregor could face lawsuit if he kicks Mayweather in biggest hybrid fight of all time

Las Vegas will host the big fight between Mayweather and McGregor on August 26 which is worth $500million. Mayweather has won every single one of his 49 bouts, winning 26 by KOs, whereas The Notorious McGregor went unbeaten in UFC for six years before losing to rival Nate Diaz in March 2016. The American is on a minimum certainty of $100million (£78m), plus the upside on high sales by Showtime, the major US cable network. Irishman McGregor’s share of the bounty is thought to be in the region of $80m (£62m) but a percentage of that will go to the…

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