By CHIMAOBI UCHENDU Players and officials of Falconets have arrived the city of Tokyo ahead of their quarter final match against Mexico scheduled for Thursday. The team’s media officer, Ejiro Femi Babafemi, told Daily Sunsports that they were lodged at Hilton Hotel in the heart of the city and had the feel of the playing […]
Nigeria’s Falconets, on Sunday morning, trounced their Italian counterparts 4-0. With the defeat of Italy, the Falconets have qualified for the quarter-final of the ongoing Under-20 World Cup in Japan. The goals were scored by Ordega, who had a hat trick, and an injury time goal from substitute Igbinovia. The Falconets topped Group B with […]
Sierra Leone appear to have selected an ineligible player in their squad for their 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final-round qualifying match against Tunisia on September 8 and risk sanctions from world football governing body, FIFA. The BBC reports that Nigerian striker Victor Igbekoyi Kayode was included in the 19-man squad after he showed interest […]
WIGAN Athletic yesterday accepted a bid for Victor Moses from Chelsea, which finally met the valuation set by the club. The midfielder was at the receiving end of four unsuccessful bids by Roberto Di Matteo but Dave Whelan has finally agreed to sell the player on the fifth attempt. The club announced on its website […]
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | August 20, 2012 – “A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune…” – Anonymous. In local parlance there is a word called ‘wash’. It actually has a relationship with some of its original dictionary meaning, especially in informal terms. […]
By Prof Emmanuel O. Esiemokhai | Abuja, Nigeria | August 19, 2012 – The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women. Under favourable conditions, the […]
BY BEN EFE Fraudsters parading themselves as Imo State government officials have conned former Nigerian Olympian, Gloria Alozie and a score of European athletes into parting with their money, in the name of participating in a phantom Imo Marathon. Alozie who won a 100m hurdles silver for Nigeria at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, disclosed […]
EX-Nigeria international, Henry Nwosu, has told SuperSport.com that he is satisfied with the outcome of the friendly game between the Super Eagles and the Mena of Niger Republic. The game between both sides ended goalless at the Stade General Seyni Kountche in Niamey on Wednesday. “In my opinion I don’t think it is a bad […]
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | August 15, 2012 – Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part is the story of Nigeria in the just concluded successful London Olympics. It […]
LAGOS—The story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics is “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 billion down the drain.” And now a top Nigerian sports official who is a member of an international sports federation wants the federal government to compel the sports ministry to account for how they spent the N2.3 billion […]
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