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Nigeria U-17 national team, Golden Eaglets, began their quest for a third AFCON U-17 title by defeating hosts Tanzania 5-4 in Dar es Salaam on Sunday. The Eaglets started brightly and mounted early pressure on the Tanzanians but had to wait for the opening goal until the 20th minute when Olatomi Alfred pounced on a... Continue Reading →
Nigeria's Israel Adesanya won the Interim UFC Middleweight Championship by unanimous decision over Kelvin Gastelum in Atlanta at #UFC236. Below is a timeline of his rise to stardom from a collage of tweets online. In case you missed the 'breaking news', here's it again in blazing colour: https://twitter.com/playbabaijebu/status/1117337145868464134?s=19 How it went down? Take a sneak... Continue Reading →
By Kayode Ogundare With Friday's draw ceremony held in Cairo, the Super Eagles effectively announced their return to the African Cup of Nations after missing the last two editions following their win in 2013. So the search for a fourth AFCON begins for Africa's most populous country and they must go past fellow West Africans... Continue Reading →
The draws for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations takes place on Friday and Nigeria's Super Eagles are in line to reignite some old rivalries and other an interesting match up with compatriot Emmanuel Amuneke who's in charge of Tanzania's Taifa Stars. The 24 teams have been separated into four seeding pots based on the... Continue Reading →
Super Eagles Chief coach Gernot Rorh reckons that he already has a fair idea of the players that would be making the AFCON 2019 squad in Egypt later this year in June. The German tactician was speaking moments after the senior team pipped visiting Pharaohs of Egypt 1-0 in a friendly international courtesy of a... Continue Reading →
A Twitter user has compared singing sensation and YBNL label owner Olamide as the with Barcelona of Spain's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez. Writing under the Twitter handle @bigbabydam, he extolled Olamide's virtues as a versatile and hardworking musician with undeniable abilities even though sometimes contriversial like the former Liverpool forward. In @bigbabydam's estimation, Olamide is... Continue Reading →
Nigerian international Mikel Agu plots way back to international football after loan move to Setubal in Portugal
If you've ever wondered why clubs splash big money on big players and how they make their money back, then you need to read this piece
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to begin a 10-working days holiday from Friday, August 3 2018 and has subsequently handed over the reins of government to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN In a tweet from the verified Twitter handle of the Nigerian Presidency, it was revealed that a letter to this effect has... Continue Reading →
Nigerian international Ogenyi Onazi has taken to Twitter to celebrate his daughter's first year birthday on Wednesday
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