Author: Brila

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.

Rivers Hoopers basketball club coach Odaudu Ogoh has stated that the Port Harcourt based side will be the underdog after been drawn in the Nile Conference of the inaugural Basketball Africa League alongside North African heavyweights Zamalek of Egypt, US Monastir of Tunisia, Ferrovario of Mozambique, Forces Amees et Police FAP of Cameroon and Patriot Basketball club of Rwanda.

General Manager of Shooting stars sports club of Ibadan and a member of the NNL club owners forum Rasheed Balogun has stated that petitions and cases filed against the Nigeria Football Federation will continue to delay the start of the NNL.