I’m playing for Falcons Because of My Yorùbá Origin, Says England-born Ashleigh Plumptre Falcon Superstar, Ashleigh Plumptre, has said she dumped the English team to play for Nigeria because of her Yorùbá origin. She said she wanted to relive her rich heritage and link up with her roots. It is however unfortunate that, none of…
Nigeria’s D’Tigress have qualified for the semi-final of the AfroBasket women championship after a remarkable comeback win against Mozambique in the quarter-finals. The Nigerian team defeated their Mozambican counterparts 59-52 on Wednesday night to go through. Nigeria are the defending champions of the women AfroBasket championship The first two quarters were particularly cagey for the…
Former Arsenal, Manchester City and Real Madrid striker, Emmanuel Adebayor, has given an update on the rift going on between him and members of his family. The Togolese striker recently went public to reveal some of his personal issues with his family which at some point affected his playing career. Adebayor had in 2015 accused…
The Nigerian female team forced Canada to a 0-0 draw in Melbourne on Friday with an impressive performance from Nnadozie, who is also the team’s captain. Nnadozie was crucial to the team’s goalless draw against Canada in their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Group B opening game. She put up a five-star display and capped…
Before the days of Jay-Jay Okocha, there was a playmaker in the Nigerian team who was a great dribbler and was even nicknamed “The African Maradona”, his name, Etim Esin. The Nigerian star footballer who could have been the World Best Player lost it all due to youthful exuberance. The Nigerian U-20 team was in…
Women’s 100m hurdles world record-holder, Tobi Amusan, in the early hours of Wednesday, confirmed that she has been charged with an alleged anti-doping rule violation. Amusan also promised to resolve the charges against her before this year’s competition, set to be held next month in Budapest. The 26-year-old Nigerian athlete disclosed this in a post…
Super Falcon’s head coach, Randy Waldrum, has expressed satisfaction with the team’s preparation for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The nine-time African champions are currently sweating it out in Brisbane, Australia, ahead of the World Cup. Waldrum’s side will take on local side Lions FC in a friendly on Saturday. The American hinted that…
Nigerian-born mixed martial arts champion Israel Adesanya has posted images on Twitter of him training US tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. It comes head of a potential cage match between the boss of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and his rival Elon Musk – the South African-born entrepreneur who now heads Twitter. “We both have…
Forty-seven years after Nigeria boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and evacuated its athletes from the event, a member of Team Nigeria to the Games, Segun Odegbami, says “it was the most shattering experience of our lives.” Twenty-nine countries — mostly African and including Nigeria — boycotted the Montreal Games after the International Olympic Committee…
Nigeria has won the 2023 African U-21 Nations Women’s Volleyball Championship Zone 3 in Niamey, Niger Republic. Nigeria defeated Ghana 3:0 (25-10, 25-15, 25-10) in the finals on Sunday night to clinch the title. The girls had earlier eased past local rivals, Ghana in their first match of the tournament with a 3-0 (25-11, 25-15,…
