Author: Brila

First Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation Barrister Seyi Akinwumi has stated that neither the Football Federation nor the Super Eagles will look down on the team’s next AFCON 2021 qualifying opponents Sierra Leone next month in Asaba. Akinwumi speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said football has changed a lot in Africa and that a number of Africa teams can’t be underrated like most Nigerians will always want to do. He added that the team will have to work hard to ensure the objective of qualification is achieved. “Football in Africa has come of age and the teams in…

President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation Engr. Tikon Ishaku has tipped Nigerian duo of Quari Aruna and Jide Omotayo for glory and to progress from their respective quarter final pairings against Togo’s Kokou Fanny and Egyptian Omar Assar respectively at the ongoing ITTF Arica cup top 16 in Tunisia.  Ishaku speaking in a chat with www.brila.net expressed strong optimism that he earnestly believes Olajide Omotayo wouldn’t have it impossible to edge Egyptian Omar Assar after having beaten another highly rated Egyptian Ahmed Saleh last year at the All Africa games in Morocco. “If Jide could take a classy player like…

Coach of Nasarawa united FC Abubakar Arikya has expressed delight after his team defeated Enyimba 2-0 in one of Sunday’s NPFL match day 21 fixture ending the Peoples Elephant’s 6 games winning streak before the game.

Coach of NPFL leading side Plateau united Abdul Maikaba has expressed satisfaction at the turn of event at the Aper Aku stadium after the visiting Plateau united side settled for a share of the spoil playing out a scoreless draw against host team Lobi stars. Maikaba speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said afterward that the result mean Plateau united still maintain status quo and that the result will help motivate the team to continue to do well and have even more get more positive results. Maikaba also added that the consistency Plateau united is showing recently excites him more…

Coach of Nigeria’s men wrestling national team Victor Kodie is hopeful that the Nigerian men wrestling national team wrestlers will weigh in positively and qualify a good number ahead of the Olympic qualifiers in Morocco. The coach also stressed that the level of competition in men wrestling on the continent is tougher compared to the women. Kodie speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said he will be working hard to ensure they wrestlers get better and improve on time to brighten their chances of Olympic qualification for the Tokyo games. He also added that he hopes they will be opportune…

Coach of Nigeria’s  women wrestling national team Akuh Purity has expressed confidence in the ability of Nigeria’s women wrestling team to go through and record almost a clean sweep of qualification tickets ahead of the 2020 wrestling event. Purity speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the form shown by the wrestlers at the recently concluded Africa wrestling championship in Algeria is good enough to have inspired such level of confidence and stressed that he is sure about 95 percent of his athletes will secure qualification for the Olympics.

Remo Stars’ Vice-Captain and defender Tiyamiyu Kazeem has been allegedly shot dead in Sagamu, Ogun State, by unknown gunmen.

British boxer Tyson Fury delivered a dominant performance in his heavyweight championship bout with Deontay Wilder on Saturday, overwhelming his opponent to earn a seventh-round TKO victory in Las Vegas.

Heavyweights Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will go to war once again for the WBC heavyweight title on the line in Las Vegas.

Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury both said they’d come in heavier for tomorrow night’s rematch than they were in their Dec. 2018 fight and they delivered on that.