Tag: sports
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NNL Board sets October kickoff for 2025/26 Season, holds AGM in August
The Nigeria National League (NNL) has confirmed October 2025 as the official kickoff month for the 2025/26 season, following a strategic Board meeting held on Friday, July 11, at the VIP Lounge of the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State. The Board also scheduled the league’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the last week…
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WTT increases 2025 Contender Lagos prize money to $100,000
The management of the WTT Series has announced a significant increase in the prize pool for the 2025 WTT Contender Lagos tournament, raising the total purse from $75,000 to $100,000. This 33% boost is aimed at enhancing player rewards and promoting global competitiveness, the organizers have said. In addition to the increased financial incentives, players…
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Super Falcons to use Algeria match as shooting practice
Nigeria’s Super Falcons managers have said they will use Sunday’s final group B clash with Algeria’s Lady Fennecs to prepare hard for their quarter-final date with either hosts Morocco or ambitious Zambia – two teams that any team will underrate at their own peril. The two teams (Morocco and Zambia) were also the ones that…
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NNL Super 8: Warri Wolves and Wikki Tourists have unfinished business, says Coach Aluma
Pius Ayinor The final match of the NNL Super 8 playoff, scheduled for Saturday afternoon in Asaba, is certainly set to be a game of classic dimension as both teams are poised to continue from the point they stopped earlier this year. Warri Wolves coach Napoleon Aluma has said his team has an “unfinished business”…
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Osimhen and The Napoli Fiasco
By Godwin Kienka Victor Osimhen’s engagement with Napoli as a 21-year-old vivacious soccer talent had all the trappings of a fairy tale romance that would lead to a dream wedding with the couple living happily ever after. For the first two seasons, it surely was. Osimhen went over to Napoli in 2020 for a transfer…
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Bauchi Sports Commissioner says Wikki Tourists won’t drop again from NPFL
Pius Ayinor Bauchi State Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development, Hon. Adamu Babayo Gabarin, has said that Wikki Tourists are poised to compete in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) permanently going forward. The state-owned football club returned to Nigeria’s top flight league on Thursday after a thunderous 4-0 victory over Yobe Desert Stars in…
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Super Falcons struggle to beat Botswana, qualify for quarter finals
Nigeria’s campaign for a 10th continental title at the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations continued on Thursday after the Super Falcons beat their counterparts from Botswana 1-0 to reach the competition’s quarter finals. Mexico-based Chinwendu Ihezuo, scorer of the third goal in the 3-0 rout of Tunisia on Sunday, stretched her left leg to…
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African athletics: I’m ready to make Nigeria proud, says Success
A dedicated member of Team Nigeria to the forthcoming 3rd edition of the Confederation of the African Athletics, (CAA) U-18/U-20 Championships, Success Oyibu, is very confident in her and Nigeria’s readiness for the event. Speaking for herself, young Success Uyibu says she will do everything within her power to make Nigeria proud at the championships,…
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PSG humiliate Real Madrid 4-0 to book Club World Cup final against Chelsea
Paris Saint-Germain romped to a statement 4-0 win over Real Madrid to book their spot in the Club World Cup final on Wednesday. Luis Enrique’s European champions were at their rampant best on the day, in stark contrast to their opponents, who suffered their worst defeat of the 2024/25 campaign. Madrid, rotated due to injury…
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Super Falcons target another win against Botswana
Group leaders Nigeria will fancy their chances of scooping the three points when they take on Botswana in Casablanca on Thursday, in their second match of the determined campaign to win a 10th Women Africa Cup of Nations title. The Super Falcons wasted little sweat in dispatching Tunisia’s senior girls 3-0 in their first match…
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