The Falconets on Saturday defeated their Cameroonian counterparts 3-0 in a second leg match of the fourth round of the 2022 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup African zone qualifiers. Victory in the match played at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja saw the Falconets advancing to the qualifiers’ next round. The Nigerian national under-20 Read More…
The Director-General, Lagos State Sports Commission, (LSSC), Oluwatoyin Gafaar has said the installation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) for Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere would be ready in two weeks. Gafaar made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. He said the upgrade was to meet Read More…
Former Inter Milan midfielder Christian Eriksen has joined English Premier League (EPL) club side Brentford on a deal until the end of the season. The move which has come just seven months after the Dane suffered a cardiac arrest makes the Bees the first EPL club to make a move on transfer deadline day. The Read More…
Mohamed Salah on Sunday scored the equaliser and created the winner for Egypt to come from behind to beat Morocco 2-1 at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon. Morocco went ahead in the seventh minute from a penalty kick converted by Sofiane Boufal in this quarter-final match. But Egypt came storming back as Read More…
Hailed by Federer, Djokovic Rafael Nadal achieved the most astonishing feat of his glittering career by fighting back from two sets down to defeat Daniil Medvedev and win the 2022 Australian Open. The feat helped him to win a record 21st grand slam title. Nadal’s 2-6 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 7-5 victory moves him clear Read More…
Daniil Medvedev finds himself the man in the way of history once again as he takes on Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open on Sunday. Victory for Nadal at Melbourne Park for the first time since 2009 would make him the first man ever to win a 21st grand slam title. It Read More…
Some squash enthusiasts, on Saturday, applauded the winners and participants at the just concluded Lagos State Squash Tournament for U- 1 boys and girls and the men’s and women’s category. In the men’s category, Onaopemipo Adegoke defeated Gabriel Olufunmilayo 3-2, in a keenly contested final that could have gone either way at the Teslim Balogun Read More…
Burkina Faso on Saturday stunned the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia by a lone goal to progress to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Cameroon 2021. Dango Ouattara’s goal on the stroke of halftime was enough for Burkina Faso to beat Tunisia at the Stade Roumdé Adjia in Garoua. Ouattara, who was sent Read More…
Title favourites Nigeria crashed out of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Sunday in Garoua after a 0-1 loss to Tunisia who now advance to the competition’s quarter-finals. In the Round of 16 match at the Stade Roumde Adjia, the Super Eagles failed to raise their game to the expected level and fell Read More…
Rafael Nadal survived the longest tie-break of his career to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday and then saw Alexander Zverev taken out of his path. Nadal would have expected to have to get past the third seed to reach the last four. But Zverev’s underachievement at the grand slams went on as he Read More…