Author: Brila

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.…

Nigeria International, Azubuike Okechukwu has been recognized for his outstanding performance for Yeni Malatyaspor last season, with TRT Spor Canlı naming him in their Team of the Season.

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…

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…

Two 15-year-old boys in Junior Secondary School have been reported dead at a hotel on PTI junction, Effurun, Delta State during an “after exam party” instigated by their teacher.

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…

The president of Argentinian lower-league outfit Sport Pacifico has vowed to “expel” defender Federico Allende from the club after he admitted to pricking opponents with a needle in Sunday’s clash against Estudiantes.

Claude Puel has been sacked by Southampton in less than a year. Puel is understood to have fallen out with players, who didn’t like rotation policy. Southampton chiefs pulled the trigger on Wednesday night after agreeing a pay-off with Puel, who had two years left on the deal he signed last summer. The Former OGC Nice Manager, who was appointed to replace Ronald Koeman, lead Southampton to EFL Cup final but lost the trophy to Manchester United. Southampton were Knocked out of the Europa League earlier in the group stage. They were suppose to qualify from that group after beating…

22-year-old Belgian-born Striker, Cyriel Dessers is weighing up his chances of representing Nigeria after he admits, breaking into the Belgian national team may be out of his hands.

‎Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger has dashed the hopes of 20-year-old forward Henry Onyekuru joining the EPL club this summer.