Category: Sports

No fewer than seven of the invited overseas-based Super Eagles players arrived on Monday for the friendly match between Nigeria and the Cranes of Uganda. When The Deltanewsroom.com checked at 7pm, the team bus had returned to the Uyo airport to pick up more the players who arrived for the game billed to hold on […]

Senegal U-20 national team coach, Joseph Koto, has said the Nigeria U-20 team were not superior to his team despite losing twice to the Flying Eagles at the 2015 African Youth Championship which was concluded in Dakar on Sunday. The Flying Eagles beat the Junior Teranga Lions 1-0 in the AYC final at the Leopold […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday congratulated the Flying Eagles on their Sunday’s victory over Senegal in the final game of the 2015 African Youth Championship. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President said he looked forward to receiving the team at his earliest convenience on […]

Fenerbahçe forward Emmanuel Emenike faces disciplinary action in the Turkish league following his indecent reaction in the derby against Beşiktaş at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium on Sunday. The Nigeria international tore off his shirt in anger and ran off the pitch, demanding to be substituted in the first half, after his fans booed him for […]

Newly-crowned champion at the 1st MP Tennis Championship held at the Lagos Country Club, Ikeja last weekend, Oyinlomo Quadri, tops the list of players representing Nigeria at the International Tennis Federation Africa Junior Championship holding in Tunis, Tunisia this week. The eight-man delegation is scheduled to depart Lagos for Tunisia via Morocco today (Monday). The […]

Former Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, and ex-Golden Eaglets manager, Henry Nwosu, have knocked the Nigeria Football Federation for the lingering controversy over the appointment of a new coach for the national team. Since November 2014, when Nigeria failed to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, the NFF has not been able to get […]

The Confederation of African Football on Friday hit Equatorial Guinea with a $100,000 fine for unrest in a Africa Cup of Nations semi-final in which 36 fans were injured, AFP reports. But CAF said despite disturbances blamed on Equatorial Guinea fans in Thursday’s semi-final defeat to Ghana, supporters would be allowed into the country’s third-place […]

I Know one day God will save Nigeria from Shekau and his men. Most of us who do not live in the North really have little or no understanding of what is actually going on there. It’s like a war in some places, really really sad. These people have no place to go; it’s their […]