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By Eric Ojo Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN) has hosted the newly introduced Shuttle Time initiative, a grassroots programme that is developed by Badminton World Federation (BWF) in Nnewi, Anambra State.  Shuttle Time is a project in which lessons are designed to provide children with a positive image of badminton...

Argentine international football icon, Leo Messi, has been crowned the 2023 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year. Laureus revealed this in a post on its Instagram page on Monday. The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year, which was first awarded in 2000, is an annual award honouring...

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have arrived in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, for a 10-day camping programme ahead of this year’s FIFA U20 World Cup finals. This was made known in a video shared on the Nigeria Football Federation Instagram page on Monday. The video was captioned, “ The Flying...

Argentine football superstar, Lionel Messi, has finally broken his silence after he was suspended by his football club, Paris Saint-Germain, for embarking on an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia. Messi flew to the Middle East country at the start of the week on a supposed day off for the players...

An autopsy report has confirmed that the former World Wrestling Entertainment star Sara Lee died after committing suicide, TMZ Sports reports on Friday. Lee, who won the sixth season of WWE’s reality show competition Tough Enough, died in October 2022. Documents from the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office claim Lee...

Nigerian football striker, Victor Osimhen, scored the Scudetto-winning goal for Napoli against Udinese at the Udine stadium and the celebration went wild on Thursday night. For the first time since 1990, the city of Naples is the home to the Champions of Italy after Napoli drew 1-1 in their away...

Former American boxer, George Foreman, 74, has been sued for rape by his third wife who is now 64 years old. She claims the ex-boxer raped her at his ranch in Livermore, California when she was 15, making her the third woman to accuse him of child sex abuse, Daily...

With Nations Cup bronze, silver and gold; and with our first ever World Cup finals appearance and fifa World rating as number 5 in the world, Clemens Westerhof remains the best coach Nigeria ever had. Remember his dedication and discovery and assemblage of the team we agree are the best...

Liverpool turned up the pressure on Manchester United with a 1-0 victory over Fulham on Wednesday, moving them four points off fourth place in the English Premier League (EPL). Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah scored the lone goal which even edged him even closer to a Steven Gerrard record. There was...

Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets on Wednesday in Constantine lost 0-1 for Morocco to earn all three points and sail into the quarter-finals of the Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations. The Golden Eaglets wasted a basketful of opportunities in a match they dominated for large periods in the Algerian city. An own...