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An Italian football striker, Anwar Megbli, 18, has died in a road accident after he fell from the back of a motorcycle. Megbli, who played for a semi-professional football club, Livorno, passed away on Monday following the incident on Saturday night, Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. He was riding in...

By Eric Ojo Tare Pet Montessori Group of Schools Yenagoa has emerged the winner of the second edition of the Bayelsa State Netball Challenge. The competition which held in the indoor sports hall of the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenagoa, was featured as part of the events marking this year’s...

Former Nigerian Super Eagles assistant coach, Ben Duamlong, 70, has bagged a first class in Painting at the University Of Jos. Duamlong made the list of 112 students who bagged first class out of 20,532 students that graduated from the university in 2023. After retiring as a football coach of...

Nigeria eliminated host nation Argentina as goals from Ibrahim Muhammad and Rilwanu Haliru Sarki sent the six-time champions out of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup on Wednesday. On an incredible night in western Argentina, the Flying Eagles pulled out every trick in the book to defend in numbers and then...

Nigeria’s under-20 women’s football team, the Falconets, will face their Ghanaian counterparts in the final match of the first edition of the WAFU B Under-20 Women’s Tournament on Saturday.  Nigeria defeated Republic of Benin 3-0 in the semi-finals of the event on Wednesday to set up a clash against the...

Record winners Sevilla of Spain on Wednesday in Budapest claimed a seventh Europa League title with a 4-1 win on penalty kicks against Roma, after a 1-1 extra-time deadlock. Goalkeeper Yassine Bounou was Sevilla’s hero, saving efforts from Gianluca Mancini and Roger Ibanez, before Gonzalo Montiel converted the deciding penalty...

Novak Djokovic kept his focus on the court amid his latest controversy as he saw off Marton Fucsovics in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday. The French sports minister had weighed into the continued fall-out over Djokovic’s decision to write “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia” on...

Attention is ramping up again on the French Open’s scheduling, with the night session so far exclusively featuring men’s matches. Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo had to apologise last year after saying men’s matches had more appeal. That was supposed, for her, to be a justification for only one women’s match...

Eleojo Denise Augustine (left) and a team member during a training session in Abuja By Augustine Aminu Fourteen-year old Eleojo Denise Augustine has said she is set to beat the records of an American professional basketball player, Steph Curry. Eleojo, a Senior Secondary School student at Total Child Model School...

England star and Brentford striker, Ivan Toney, 27, has been diagnosed as a gambling addict after playing a bet on his own club to lose 13 times. The striker, who could have been hit with a much harsher penalty of 15 months, admitted to lying to the FA about betting...