Samuel Ogazi joins Amusan, Brume, Ofili, others in World Athletics testing pool
Paris 2024 Olympics 400m finalist, Samuel Ogazi, has been added to the World Athletics testing pool following the latest update by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) .
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Tranmere Rovers starlet vows commitment to Nigeria
Tranmere Rovers teenage sensation Victor Alyanyi has expressed his heartfelt desire to play for the Nigerian national team. Born to parents from Edo State and raised in the United Kingdom, Alyanyi is a talented and dynamic player who has already caught the attention of football scouts, coaches, and clubs across England.
CHAN 2024: CAF picks Nigeria’s Abdulsallam as centre referee
Nigeria’s Qassim Abdulsallam has been selected by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as one of the centre referees expected to officiate at the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN).
Man Utd’s fresh start turns sour on Ratcliffe’s watch
Manchester United fans began 2024 buoyed at the prospect of a new dawn but the winds of change at Old Trafford under Jim Ratcliffe have so far only hastened the demise of the English giants.
Super Eagles World Cup opponent loses coach
Barely two months before the resumption of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the Amavubi of Rwanda have lost their head coach, Thorsten Spittler.
Barcelona’s Olmo suffers fresh registration setback
La Liga and the Spanish football federation on Saturday again rejected Barcelona’s desperate attempts to register Dani Olmo and avoid a potentially embarrassing departure of their star playmaker.
Tennis star Rybakina says ex-coach ‘never mistreated me’
The 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina said Saturday her former coach Stefano Vukov “never mistreated me” after reports that he has been provisionally suspended by the WTA.
Ernest Okonkwo and revival of sports commentating
My name is Segun Odegbami. It is a popular name alright in Nigeria, but more people across the African continent know me as ‘Mathematical,’ a nickname coined and gifted to me by a famous sports commentator, late Ernest Okonkwo, during broadcast of football matches on Radio Nigeria in those days.