Author: Brila

Nigeria and Africa top table tennis player Quadri Aruna has expressed delight after progressing to the round of 16 for the first time at the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation world championship in Houston Texas following a 4-3 win over Indian’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran after the previous 3rd round exit in Hungary.

Former Nigeria international and member of the Nigeria Football Federation’s Technical study group Friday Ekpo has urged Nigerians that the focus on the final round of world cup qualifiers in Africa should be on preparation rather than the obsession for the choice of who gets paired with Nigeria ahead of the draws which will be conducted later after today’s CAF executive committee meeting in Cairo.

Former assistant coach of Nigeria’s men basketball national team D’Tigers Mohammed Abdulrahman has stated that he hopes the players of the men senior basketball national team are able to ride above all of the problems rocking the governance of the game in Nigeria ahead of the commencement of the FIBA world cup qualifiers which begins Friday in Angola.

Enyimba FC player Samuel Kalu has stated that the People’s Elephants can’t afford to disappoint Nigerians and as such will go all out to get a win away against the Libyan side. 

Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has revealed that the luck factor played a part in his progression into the third round of the International Table Tennis Federation’s world championship after winning his second-round match against Victor Ishiy of Brazil at the world championship in Houston Texas last night to set up a third-round meeting with Indian’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran.

Julius Nwosu will lead Nigeria’s Male Senior Basketball National Team D’Tigres of Nigeria to the upcoming FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.

Assistant national basketball coach Christopher Okoh has urged that the preparation for the FIBA women’s world cup qualifiers must be good after the draws were held yesterday in Geneva Switzerland.

Former Coach of Nigeria women national team Scot Nnaji has stated that the Nigerian team has got a real chance of qualifying for the FIBA women world cup following Tuesday’s draws that houses Nigeria in Group B of the women world cup qualifiers alongside France, China, and Mali with games to be played in Belgrade.

Coach of Nigeria Premier basketball league side Kano Pillars Sanni Ahmed has stated that he is hopeful the Nigerian delegation to the FIBA world cup qualifiers in Angola’s city of Benguela will be able to offer good representation ahead of the qualifiers which is scheduled to be played between Friday 26th Nov – Sunday 28th Nov 2021.

Former Nigerian international Julius Aghahowa has stated that he is hopeful of a divine recovery for Napoli and Super Eagles striker Victor Osihmen after the Napoli striker was ruled out of participating at the Africa cup of nations following a three month expected time of return as released by the Italian Serie A club.