Sports

Kano Pillars, Barau FC seek synergy in NPFL season

A group of Sports stakeholders in Kano State have called for synergy between Kano Pillars FC and Barau FC as they prepare to represent the state in the 2025/2026 Nigeria…

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Super Eagles B Team defeat Congo 2-0

Nigeria’s Super Eagles B Team produced a spirited performance on Tuesday evening, defeating Congo 2-0 in their final Group D match of the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN). The encounter…

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Liverpool edge Bournemouth in 6-goal EPL opener

Liverpool opened their Premier League title defence with a 4-2 victory over Bournemouth in an emotional night at Anfield on Friday. The match began with a poignant tribute to late…

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Coach Wakama hails Tinubu’s reward to D’Tigress

D’Tigress head coach, Rena Wakama, has praised President Bola Tinubu for his “life-changing” reward after the team’s historic fifth consecutive AfroBasket championship victory. Speaking to State House correspondents, Wakama commended…

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Tinubu rewards D’Tigress players $100,000, national honours, flats

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday announced a reward of $100,000 for each member of the victorious national female basketball team, D’Tigress. Represented by the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, the president announced…

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Tinubu to welcome D’Tigress back to Abuja, hails team on historic triumph

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, for lifting their seventh African championship title at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket. ‎D’Tigress, led by Coach Rena Wakama,…

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Nigeria beat Mali to win Women’s Afrobasket’s 5th title in a row

Nigeria overcame a resilient Mali in the final game of the 2025 Women’s AfroBasket in Abidjan  to become the first team to win the tournament five times in a row.With…

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Afrobasket: Tinubu lauds D’Tigress for making historic final

……. beating Senegal President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, for reaching the final of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket for the fifth consecutive time, following a…

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Tribute to ex- Sec General NFA Patrick Okpomo 21yrs after by Gbenga Gbadesire

 It’s been an incredible twenty one years since one of Nigeria’s foremost football technocrats, Patrick Okpomo,who was a former Secretary General of Nigeria Football Association (NFA), died in Lagos. ‘Secto’…

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D’Tigress beat Cameroon, advance to semi finals in women’s Afrobasket

Nigeria’s D’Tigresses, have advanced to the semifinals of the 2025 Women’s AfroBasket tournament in Abidjan by defeating Cameroon 83-47 and keeping their title defense campaign alive. The victory extends their…

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