Author: Brila

D’Tigress forward Evelyn Akhator has hailed her National team colleagues after the Nigeria women national team handed Cameroon a crushing defeat to finish as group winner.

Five –time champions Nigeria have kick-started their camping programme for the FIFA U17 World Cup finals taking place in Brazil 26th October – 17th November 2019.

The men’s senior national basketball team, the D’Tigers have arrived Lagos, Nigeria for the next phase of training ahead of their 2019 FIBA World Cup outing after weeks of training in the United States of America.

Super Eagles goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa, who played last season at Katsina United, has agreed to a second spell at another NPFL club Heartland. He has signed a two-year contract. In his first spell at the Owerri club, Ezenwa was on the squad who played in the final of the 2010 CAF Champions League. A source close to the goalkeeper told Brila that a deal with Heartland FC has been concluded. “It is as good as done and dusted – Ezenwa will be playing for Heartland in the next season. “Heartland have proved to be ambitious…

Nigeria is set to be banned and fined by the International Hockey Federation,(IHF) after the country failed to send her representatives to compete at the 2019 Africa Olympic qualification tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Former Nigerian captain Joseph Yobo said he regretted not seeing Onyekuru in action for Everton , before the attacker secured a move to French side AS Monaco.

Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho has reitirated his readiness to keep on working hard in order to keep his new found form as the new season resumes in England.

Track queen Blessing Okagbare is thankful for how far she has gone thus far with her career in athletics and is looking forward to represent the country in long jump at the All African games in Morocco next week 19th of August 2019. 

Assistant coach of Nigeria’s women national basketball team Peter Ahmedu has declared that the Nigerian ladies are ready to go against Cameroon ahead of today’s group stage decider.

Coach of Nigeria’s CAF champions league representative Enyimba FC Usman Abdallah has stated that they will work on overturning defeat against Rahimo FC with knowledge of having played against the Burkina Faso side.