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Reigning champions Bayelsa Queens of Yenagoa on Friday defeated Rivers Angels 1-0 in their final group A game at the ongoing NWFL Super Six in Asaba. A fifth minute penalty kick converted by Glory Edet in the first half ensured victory for the winners, in a game characterised by rough...

Super Eagles’ Head Coach José Peseiro has invited to camp four home-based players alongside 19 foreign-based others for next weekend’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Sierra Leone. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Super Eagles will take on the Leone Stars in an AFCON...

Arsenal star, Bukayo Saka, paid a visit to his grandparents in Oro Irepodun Local Government Area, Kwara State. A Twitter user shared the picture with the caption, “Bukayo Saka At ORO, Kwara State With Grandparents. Proudly Kwara.” Saka had previously visited Bariga, Somolu where his family grew up during his...

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...