Johny Akinyemi needed a “miracle” and a new nation to get to the Olympic Games. The 23-year-old will become Nigeria’s first Olympic slalom canoeist at London 2012, having beaten the Beijing 2008 bronze medallist in a race-off to secure his place.
WBO No 1-ranked cruiserweight boxer Ola Afolabi (19-2-3, 9 KOs), is once again the interim WBO world cruiserweight champion after defeating Valery Brudov (39-4, 28 KOs) in a fifth-round knockout on Friday.
Richard Gahonzire, a member of the Rwanda Football Federation has said it will be fun to “beat Nigeria.”
“We’ll serve Nigerians what they want and make them happy,” was the simple way Stephen Keshi responded to kudos on his style of training just as he walked out of the field after a hot training session with the home –based Eagles at the FIFA Goal Project site of the National Stadium here in Abuja.
The 2013 Nations Cup qualifier between Rwanda and Nigeria will not be played at the Amahoro Stadium, but a smaller facility also in the capital city of Kigali, officials have disclosed.
A Champions League love story – Barcelona’s Lionel Messi breaks the competition record with his 19th strike in knockout games.
Nigeria has dropped 11 steps on FIFA ranking of male national teams. In the table released on Wednesday, Nigeria fell 11 places to No. 56.
Zambia conjured up a shock when they toppled star-studded Ivory Coast 8-7 in a penalty shoot-out to claim their first ever Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday.
Prostitutes in Lusaka’s Kanyama, John Laing, Chawama and Kalingalinga compounds offered themselves free of charge to every Jim and Jack as part of their celebration after Zambia beat Ghana 1-0 at the Nations Cup on Wednesday.
Following the disquiet that attended last week’s stakeholders meeting called by Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdulahi, to find a way forward to the lingering legal tussle in Nigerian football, fresh indications have emerged that sports authorities may have perfected a plan to set up a new ‘Nigeria Football Association’, NFA.
