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(CNN)Naomi Osaka reached the Miami Open final after beating Belinda Bencic in a comeback win on Thursday. The four-time grand slam champion will now play incoming world No. 1 Iga Swiatek for the title in what will be Osaka’s first final since the Australian Open last year. Osaka, who has struggled for form since her break from the […]

MEANWHILE, German coach Gernot Rohr believes an inquest into the Super Eagles’ failure to pick a ticket to the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup would be a welcome development. Rohr had a relatively successful period with the Super Eagles as the national team qualified for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup as well two consecutive Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in 2019 Egypt and 2021 Cameroon.   Responding […]

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that Coach Austin Eguavoen has stepped down in his role as the handler of the Nigeria national team, the Super Eagles. A statement by the NFF on Thursday, March 31, reads: “Following the failure of the Super Eagles of Nigeria to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the erstwhile Technical […]

Nigeria has crashed out of the race to qualify for the World Cup later this year after drawing 1-1 with Ghana and losing on aggregate.  

Ghana and Nigeria battle in the decisive second leg of their World Cup play-off in Abuja tonight. After a 0-0 draw in Kumasi on Friday, two of African football’s traditional heavyweights head for the Moshood Abiola National Stadium where Nigeria will be hoping that home advantage can inspire them to book their place in Qatar at the end of the year. There […]

    Beyond the prestige of making Ghana suffer a back-to-back absence from the biggest stage of global football, Nigeria’s Super Eagles stand to reap a bountiful $12million (about N4.996billion) if they defeat the Black Stars in the second leg of the 2022 World Cup playoff in Abuja tomorrow. Going by the 2022 FIFA World […]

President of the Nigeria Football Federation and Member of the FIFA Council, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick on Wednesday disclosed that the football –ruling body is taking the two matches between the Super Eagles and the Black Stars of Ghana as “very serious business,” insisting that everything legal and acceptable is being done for Nigeria to […]

Kenneth Omeruo joined the Super Eagles camp on Tuesday to make the number of those on ground 18. Jo Aribo, Calvin Bassey, Innocent Bonke and Emmanuel Dennis had earlier arrived before Omeruo. The count ended at 13 yesterday when Leicester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho joined the team. Bonke came in as replacement for Wilfred Ndidi who […]

Former Super Eagles striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni, said Ghana does not have anything to lose if the Black Stars miss the 2022 World Cup. Ghana and Nigeria share fierce football rivalry which is set to be revisited, with the Black Stars and Super Eagles locked in battle for one of five tickets to Qatar later this […]

Yulimar Rojas didn’t know whether it was “pure magic or chance”, but was left living a dream as she soared to a new world outright triple jump record as she won indoor gold yesterday.. The Olympic champion soared out to 15.74 metres on her sixth and final effort in Belgrade, smashing the previous world indoor […]