Author: Seyi Alao

Following the sack of Javi Calleja by the Club, Nigeria youngsters, Samuel Chukwueze and his colleagues would now be working under a new manager at La Liga side, Villarreal. Villarreal has struggled for good results under Javi Calleja in this season’s Spanish La Liga and last weekend 2-3 home loss to Celta Vigo was the final nail to his coffin at the club . The club has decided to appointed Luis Garcia Plaza as Calleja’s replacement and he’s expected to help the club maintains its La Liga status. “Villarreal CF has decided to relieve Javi Calleja of his duties as…

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Following her loss to Nimota Aregbesola of Lagos state at the ongoing 19th NSF, Akwa Ibom State’s Olufunke Oshonaike said will continue to play the game at any level as long as her body permits. It was a shocking Monday for the Former African champion as sheexited the game at the quarterfinal stage of the women’s singlestable tennis event with a 3-4 (9-11,12-10,11-7,6-11,3-11,12-10,12-4) loss to the youngster. However, the German based Oshonaike said she won’t quit the game for the opinions of critics and added she never regret her decision to participate in the Abuja games. “Nobody can tell me…

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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) will announce a new host for the 2019 African Cup of Nations after its executive committee’s extraordinary meeting on 9 January 2019. CAF is looking for a new host for tournament following the executive committee’s decision to strip Cameroon off the hosting rights due to security reasons and lack of progress with preparations. Interested Countries, hereby have until on 14 December to table their official bids before CAF for the tournament. reports has it that Morocco , South Africa and Congo-Brazzavilleare interested in hosting the tournament, but no one has come out…

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Lucas Torreira scored the only goal of the game in the 83rd minutes to help Arsenal beat Huddersfield in the EPL game on Saturday, but Nigeria forward Alex Iwobi insists the team was lucky to get the win. Following the disappointing 2-2 draw at away to Manchester United last Wednesday, The Unai Emery side needed a win over visitors to strengthen their next season champions league football ambition but they were made to work hard for it as Huddersfield stood firm against every Arsenal’s attack until seven minutes to the end of the game when Torreira broke the deadlock with…

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