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Former Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh is to face the sports committee of the House of Representatives to state his side of his shock resignation, officials have disclosed.

Maria Sharapova denies she had been warned five times about the impending ban on meldonium and says she will “fight back” after criticizing elements of the media who “distort, exaggerate and fail to accurately report […]

Bristol City have signed striker Peter Odemwingie on loan from Stoke for the remainder of the season. The 34-year-old Nigeria international has failed to score in eight appearances for the Potters this term.

She’s the $195 million athlete at the center of a failed drugs test scandal but tennis star Maria Sharapova isn’t lacking for some heavy hitting support. “Attempts to politicize sports, attempts to add character to […]

Nigerians have hailed Cambodia-based Nigerian footballer, Harrison Chinedu, for breaking the world record for the farthest distance travelled with ball balanced on the head. The footballer achieved the feat on Sunday, March 6 in Lagos. […]

Dutchman Jo Bonfrere believes he is ‘the right man’ to return Nigeria to the summit of African football, 15 years after he was sacked as coach. 69-year-old Bonfrere previously guided Nigeria at the Nations Cup […]

Down the years, professional footballers have blamed a lacklustre performance on many things. Famous explanations have included the ball being too bouncy (Newcastle United); the pitch being too small (Tottenham Hotspur); and the team being […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — The colossal graft scandal surrounding Brazil’s national oil company engulfed the country’s most prominent political figure on Friday, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as the police raided his home […]

1) Ospina in at the deep end for Arsenal David Ospina has already contributed to an Arsenal victory at White Hart Lane this season – in the Capital One Cup, back in September – but […]

WHEN the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) appointed ex-International, Sunday Oliseh, as National Coach of the Super Eagles, to replace Stephen Keshi, in July 2015, an effusive Amaju Pinnick, the NFF Chairman, described the new coach, […]

The new president of the world governing body has promised to take football forward. Gianni Infantino says: “We will restore the image and respect of FIFA and everyone in the world will be proud of […]

Sunday Oliseh, Amaju Pinnick’s golden boy, with the golden touch, to make the Super Eagles golden again, has sensationally chickened out!  Was that an unforeseen glitch or accident waiting to happen? The exit of Stephen […]

The Nigeria Football Federation has thrown more light on how Sunday Oliseh, who resigned his appointment as Super Eagles coach last week was engaged for the plum job. The football house explained that Oliseh’s engagement […]

It all started immediately after the Super Eagles won the Africa Nations Cup in South Africa in 2013, 19 years after the last one in Tunisia in 1994. Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi fell out with […]

For the first time in nearly three decades global soccer has a leader whose name isn’t Sepp Blatter. After passing sweeping reforms earlier in the day, FIFA’s 207 delegates elected Gianni Infantino, a European soccer […]

Nigeria have reappointed Samson Siasia as coach following the resignation of Sunday Oliseh earlier on Friday. The Nigeria Football Federation have ensured a coach is in place for March’s Nations Cup qualifiers against Egypt. Oliseh […]

Gianni Infantino has been elected as the new FIFA president. The election went to a second round of voting in Zurich with the UEFA general secretary eventually prevailing by 115 votes. Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim […]

Sunday Oliseh has resigned as Super Eagles coach. The former national team skipper, who was appointed last year, made the shock announcement in the early hours of Friday via his twitter account. This is what […]

New Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari has made good on a promise to reward the players after the 1985 tournament when he was the military head of state. Nduka Ugbade, captain of the team who beat […]