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Bloody Cult Fight Prevents Top Grassroots Club BJ Foundation From Training

A bloody cult war currently raging on in Benin City between two confraternities, the Black Axe (Aiyee) and Marphites, is taking its toll on one of Nigeria’s most successful grassroots clubs,...... Read more Local Coaches’ Failings As Warning To NFF On Rohr

With regret and disappointment I inform you that Nigeria will not be appearing at the CHAN this year, an African international competition for home based professional soccer players. Nigeria failed to...... Read more Hypocritical Sunday Dare Taking The Inglorious Path. How Far Can He Go?

It is needless to re-emphasise that Nigeria is now ‘Beast of No Nation,’ even as my generation would vividly remember how this prophetic music, by the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo...... Read more Registration On For Bayern Munich Under-16 Youth Cup In Benin City

Young players under the age of 16 in Benin City would have a big opportunity of seeing their dreams of becoming full-time professionals get a boost when Bayern Munich coaches and...... Read more VAR Confusion, Sterling Sterling And How Liverpool outwitted Man City

The Liverpool vs Manchester City game lived up to its pre-match billing, serving up the very best of premier league football in a contest between two of the best (if not...... Read more Eagles Vs Niger Republic, Amaju Pinnick And Cliques’ Acquittal, Sunday Dare’s Wrong Foot Forward

I have sadly become a one man riot squad or the odd voice, in the supposedly but obviously ironical beat with egg heads that would move mountains if bribery and corruption...... Read more Benin Warriors Face Yakubu Aiyegbeni’s Club In High Profile Friendly After Launch Of Retro Lemon Jersey Sponsored By Starzee Movement

One of Edo State’s top grassroots clubs Benin Warriors FC of Benin City are continuing in their efforts of properly branding the club with the main aim of developing young players...... Read more Nigeria’s Epete In Super Form In Mozambique; Helps Club To FA Cup Final

Striker Uche Epete is enjoying a successful first season in the Mozambican league following his move to top side Ferovario Maputo, scoring good goals that have lifted the fortunes of the...... Read more Eaglets, Enyimba, EFCC And IAAF Grant Twist

Between Garba Shehu and Lai Mohammed, I don’t know who has the upper hand in lying about the obvious. If you watched Garba Shehu defending President Buhari’s so-called private visit to...... Read more Music mogul Murphy McCarthy and other music Stars storm Benin City for marriage of Benin Warriors star defender Starzee

Parts of Benin City,Edo state,will be on lockdown on November 2,2019 as big Stars of the Nigerian music industry including Murphy McCarthy are expected to hit town for the wedding ceremony...... Read more Xakha’s Strop: Arsenal’s Captain And Coach Feel The Heat

It is toxic again at Arsenal. In the past few years until the announcement of his resignation from managing the club, erstwhile manager Arsene Wenger had been the subject of unsavoury...... Read more Golden Eaglets Soar High IN Brazil, Enyimba International . . . And Prince Oduah’s Final Journey Begins!

As expected by many fans of the Golden Eaglets all over the globe, the opening game against Hungary was not an easy one. It brought out the best from both sides....... Read more ‘Zlatan’ Scores And Shines To Send 10-man Rolly Rolling On In Bet9ja Royal Cup

Rolly FC of Warri North Local Government Area are through to the second round of the ongoing Bet9ja Royal Cup competition holding in Delta State courtesy of a 1-0 win against...... Read more Golden Eaglets: Versatile Defender Adeniyi Makes Timely Recovery From Injury To Make The Cut

Defenders are usually judged by experts in the game on a number of qualities that include the ability to time tackles well, make accurate passes from the back that helps in...... Read more Amaju Pinnick’s Misplaced and Empty Promises . . . CHAN Disaster: I’m Ashamed On Behalf Of Imama Amakapabo

It is no longer news that Togo edged out Nigeria in the 2020 CHAN Championship. It is simply and truthfully the way we currently are in all facets; more like a...... Read more Red Hot Okoronkwo Can Complement Osimhen In Super Eagles’ Attack

Hearts off to the young Super Eagles team that went ‘toe to toe’ with ‘Almighty Brazil’ in Sunday’s international friendly in Singapore. Eagles Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr had said prior to...... Read more Dennerby, Brazil Friendly, U-17 World Cup, et al

For the umpteenth time and without prevarication, it must be sounded that Buhari and APC have turned Nigeria and the people into mere walking corpses. Regrettably, getting Nigeria’s economy out of...... Read more NNL And Grassroots Clubs Descend On Ughelli For Big Preseason Tournament, National Under-21 Showdown

The beauty of preseason matches and competitions in Nigeria includes having teams play in less rancorous atmospheres where the players and clubs have a more conducive ambiences to show how good...... Read more Isaac Promise’s Death: A Rude Shock, Doha Waste, Brazil Friendly . . .

It was a sad one last week when the news of the death of former international, Isaac Promise, who died in active service filtered in via a statement signed by Nigeria...... Read more Ughelli Set To Host Big National Under-20 Football Festival

Nigerian grassroots football players have been presented with another platform with which to express their talents and impress the right people that could offer them a pathway to professional football. That...... Read more From Adversity To Progress: Young Nigerian Striker Enete Looks To Make Use Of His Promotion In Ukrainian Top Flight

These days it’s pleasing to see bright and young Nigerian striking talents that have been on the youth ranks of top clubs making the progression to the main teams. Bukola Saka...... Read more Sports Minister Sunday Dare Must Beware Of ‘Bring Down Syndrome’ Merchants

Many things and thoughts have engaged my creative consciousness since last week. My figural mind, as I write this, seems to be in and out of form on what to pay...... Read more Shock, Grief As Cultists Kill Brother Of Eagles Star

Sunday, September 22, 2019 ended for me in a most horrible way as I spoke on phone with a distressed young grassroots footballer who informed me of the news that one...... Read more Benardo Silva’s Faux Pas Joke On Mendy’s Blackness Reminds Us Of The Difference Between The Social Media World And The Real World

At the Benin City training ground of Benin Warriors FC, a grassroots club that I own, a lot of banter transpires everyday between the players of the team, as it is...... Read more NFF Vs Dennerby: Sunday Dare’s Masterstroke?

Until his closeness with the former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Sunday Dare was a senior journalist. He served the strongman of Lagos politics, who has a long...... Read more