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  FC Lorient midfielder Innocent Bonke has been drafted as a late replacement for injured Wilfred Ndidi on the Super Eagles squad to face Ghana in crucial World Cup playoffs. Officials said Ndidi has been ruled out of the playoffs after he suffered a knee injury in action for Premier League club Leicester City. Bonke, […]

  Organisers of the yearly Ondo Auto Rally has confirmed April 16th and 17th date for the 5th edition of the multi-event car racing show at Akure and Ilara-Imokin in Ondo State. President of Work and Play Adeoye Ojuoko, the group organising the event , it has received a number of endorsements, especially from the […]

Manchester City handed the Premier League title initiative to Liverpool after they were held to a 0-0 draw by a dogged Crystal Palace on Monday Night Football. At a rocking Selhurst Park, Palace were seeking a league double over City for the first time since 1987/88 in the second tier, and they put up a stiff […]

Barcelona stumbled to a goalless draw with Galatasaray in their Europa League last-16 first leg at the Camp Nou on Thursday, while Rangers cruised into a 3-0 lead in their tie against Red Star Belgrade. Xavi Hernandez’s Barca, playing in Europe’s second-tier competition for the first time since 2004, dominated for long periods. But it […]

Karim Benzema’s second half hat-trick sent Real Madrid into the next round of the UEFA Champions League on a night PSG clearly showed a lack of leadership in every area of their performance. It was Benzema’s third Champions League hat-trick and what a time it was to score it. PSG were as good as qualified […]

Frenchman Younes Zerdouk has been named as the permanent coach of the Comoros national team following the departure of their former trainer. The 48-year-old, of Moroccan descent, was appointed on Monday by the Comoros Football Federation (FFC) just days after the exit of former coach Amir Abdou. Abdou resigned as the coach of Comoros two […]

  Twenty-Eight years after Nigeria defeated Zambia to win the Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia, the Federal Government is set to redeem its pledge of giving every member of the team a housing unit each. Nigeria defeated Zambia 2-1 in 1994 through goals by Emmanuel Amuneke to win its first Africa Cup of Nations […]

The Premier League has suspended its broadcast deal with Russia following the country’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. The move will take effect immediately, meaning Thursday’s four matches will not be shown in the country. The matter took only 15 minutes of a four-hour meeting of all 20 clubs in London on Tuesday to agree. The English top […]

South Africa 2013 Africa Cup of Nations hero, Victor Moses, will return to the Super Eagles squad if Nigeria beats Ghana to qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. On Sunday, Super Eagles Interim Head Coach, Augustine Eguavoen, told his audience in Lagos that he would open the doors to the senior national team to […]

The Red Devils now trail Arsenal by a point in fourth, who also have three games in hand. At the top of the table, Liverpool also have a game in hand to reduce City’s advantage to three points. But Pep Guardiola’s men responded to the pressure applied by the Reds’ seven-game winning run in the […]