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Gathering Of Eagles As Prince Oduah Goes Home But Pinnick, Others Nowhere To Be Found

The remains of former football administrator and advertisement top-notch, Prince Isidore Oduah was laid to rest in his home country, Ochuche, Ogbaru Local Government Council of Anambra State on Friday, January...... Read more Delta State Agog As NLO Clubs Hit Ughelli For Preseason Tourney; European Scouts Storm Sapele To Pick Talented Grassroots Players

The home of football in Nigeria, Delta State, will come alive in a couple of days and for about a month it will be football all the way. It starts in...... Read more Fair Officiating: Has The Nigerian League Caught Up With Developed Leagues?

Last Wednesday, January 15 2020 to be precise, I was following the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match between hosts Enyimba and visiting Heartland of Owerri via the Facebook page of...... Read more Worrisome Signals, Rumbles In Our Football

Let me begin this piece by telling all my critics that they are free to spread their criticisms on me as they like over what some described as my use of...... Read more Bendel Insurance Tame Edo State Festival Football Team

The Edo State football team currently preparing for the National Sports Festival to be hosted in the state got a reality check on Wednesday morning when they were walloped 3-0 by...... Read more Barcelona Opt For The Man Who Would Have Willingly Cut His Finger For Club Legend Cruyff

When Barcelona officials flew over to Qatar recently to convince their legend Xavi to take over the reigns as coach of the Blaugrana, they expected to bring an end to the...... Read more Sunday Dare’s Clinical Show On NTA Sports Programme

I don’t know if you watched the sports minister, Sunday Dare on the NTA Sports programme, anchored by ‘mathematical’ Segun Odegbami. The high profile TV sports programme has wide followership and...... Read more National Sports Festival: Edo State Football Team Intensifies Preparations, Lines Up Friendly With Bendel Insurance

“Hosting to win”! That phrase has become a by word for motivation amongst fans of the Edo State football team that is currently preparing intensely for the National Sports Festival which...... Read more Klopp And Liverpool Tactics The Best For Now, But For How Long?

A big congratulations to Liverpool for they will be kings of England come May. Anyone with a decent knowledge of the game who has followed the club from England’s north west...... Read more Distraction: Amaju Pinnick’s Plea For A Cease-Fire

This is the first article from this columnist for the beginning of this New Year, 2020 and this sets the tone on our resolve to give our readers up to date...... Read more Real Madrid Plot Massive €300m Move For Mbappe’s 13-Year-Old Brother

It’s becoming more and more common for clubs to sign a sibling to a favourable contract in an attempt to lure a mega star signing or convince someone to stay at...... Read more Arteta Wins Over Two Major Pundits Who Questioned His Appointment

People change their opinions in life. Views evolve and that’s part of life itself. In football as well, that’s certainly the case. When 37-year old Mikel Arteta was named coach of...... Read more Sports: Agenda For Sports Minister Sunday Dare In 2020

Like previous years, 2019 is going and so doing, stocks are taken and agenda set for the coming year. Whatever will happen in our sports in 2020 will depend solely on Sunday...... Read more Big Stars To Grace Benin Warriors’ End Of Year Match

One of Edo State’s main grassroots football clubs, Benin Warriors FC, will be having their traditional year-end ceremony with a tantalizing football match lined up between the present players of the...... Read more Real Madrid Are Doing The Right Thing By Snubbing Paul Pogba

Ever since the previous summer transfer window, we’ve been fed the same old story – “Zinedine Zidane only wants Pogba”, as Marca put it and that claim ended up being true....... Read more 2019: Year of Jeers, Woes, Zeros, Knocks for Nigerian Sports, Polity

I’m an incurable optimist since the mid-1970s and early 1980’s when I was a student at the Government College Umuahia, one of the foremost colonial Missionary founded and inspired colleges in...... Read more Arteta To Bring Young Nigerian Guru Who Discovers Grassroots Players With Him To Arsenal?

Arsenal are on the verge of appointing Mikel Arteta as new head coach of the team and there’s one name that has been increasingly linked as well as an addition to...... Read more Kelvin Dr Bruyne’s Criticism Of Arsenal’s Strikers Hits The Nail On The Head

It is seeming increasingly likely that beleaguered Arsenal are going to be hiring a former playing stalwart of the club and current assistant manager at champions Manchester City Mikel Arteta as...... Read more Athletics Federation Crisis: How Sports Minister Sunday Dare Shot Himself On The Foot!

I’m by no means scandalised concerning the entire happenings in the polity because what is going on simply brings to the fore, the character of the dramatis personae, including the President,...... Read more Edo Football Team Commences Training For 2020 National Sports Festival

At the Emotan Secondary School football field in central Benin City on Wednesday, December 11, tens of invited players who impressed in last week’s trial matches between grassroots clubs in Benin...... Read more Young Martinelli leads Arsenal's revival vs West Ham

Again Arsenal looked dead and buried at the end of the first half against West Ham in the EPL on Monday night as they have been for much of the season....... Read more As Emperor Sunday Dare Bares His Fangs, Muzzling AFN Board . . .

If you are an ardent reader of www.dailysportsng.com and by extension this page every Monday, you would bear witness that I forewarned the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, of the consequences that would befall...... Read more Benin City leg of Bayern Munich Youth Cup trials comes to a successful end

For three days, youth players in Benin City under the age of 16 strutted their footballing stuffs as they battled for a place in the national competition of the Bayern Munich...... Read more Messi vs Ronaldo: The Balon d’Or Factor; And When Will Nigerian Clubs Stop Capitulating To The North Africans?

Lionel Messi and Christian Ronaldo debate is one that would surely endure several lifetimes. The question and arguments over who is and was the better player will keep popping up as...... Read more That Imo Sports Summit, A Beautiful Bride To Emulate!

Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari did the groundbreaking of a university of transport in his village in Daura when, ironically most institutions of learning, up North are virtually empty or abandoned because...... Read more