Author: Brila

Rivers Angels and Falconet midfielder Blessing Okpe has stated that the Nigeria U20 women national team is good to go ahead of the upcoming weekend’s FIFA U20 women’s world cup qualifiers against Congo with the team slated to travel for the first leg away.

Secretary of Nigeria Professional Football League side and CAF Confederation cup campaigner Enyimba FC Chibuzo Nworgu has absolved Enyimba of blames after the team’s unsuccessful trip following the inability to gain access to Tunisia for a CAF Confederation cup playoff tie against Al Ittihad of Libya. 

Nigeria’s number one, Marylove Edwards, and Nigeria-born Canadian, Chitanna Nwadike has emerged champions in the second leg of the ITF World Tennis J5 Tour decided on Sunday at the National Tennis Complex of MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.

Kada Kings of Kaduna state and Kwara United VC  have emerged winners of the male and female category of the National Volleyball Division One League.

Claudio Ranieri is furious with William Troost-Ekong and other defenders following their shambolic performance in the defeat to Leicester City.

2019 All African games men’s Table tennis Gold Medalist Jide Omotayo has hailed the heroics of Nigeria and Africa’s top table tennis star Quadri Aruna after a record-setting run at the ongoing world table tennis championship in Houston Texas where he became the first African to reach the quarter-final of the competition. 

African and Nigerian top Table Tennis player Quadri Aruna has stated that he believes his progress at the International Table Tennis world championship in Houston Texas will pave way for other African table tennis players to progress after becoming the first African to first make the last 16 before being knocked out at the quarter-final stage following a 4-2 loss to Sweden’s Truls Moregard over the weekend.

Former assistant coach of Nigeria’s men basketball national team Abdulrahman Mohammed has hailed the resolve of the players of the D’Tigers after bouncing back from the setback of matchday 1 where the team lost 79-71 to Cape Verde to record successive wins against Mali and Uganda and get back on course for the FIBA 2023 world cup.

Rivers United striker Nyima Nwagwa has stated that his side is confident that they can hold on to their slim first-leg advantage after beating Egyptian side Al Masry 2-1 in Aba in the first leg of the final playoff round which precedes the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup.

Enyimba players and technical crew are still stuck in Morocco because of a sudden change in plans by the home side (Al-Ittihad), and CAF has not been helping matters.