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Salah is Liverpool’s highest paid player, gets £400,000-a-week

Mohammed Salah has ended his contract stand-off with Liverpool and committed his future by signing the biggest deal in the club’s history. Salah had entered the final 12 months of his... Read more Ronaldo Asks To Leave Manchester United

Cristiano Ronaldo has asked to be allowed to leave Manchester United should the club receive a satisfactory offer in the transfer window, The Times reports. Ronaldo’s decision is said to be... Read more Eguavoen Reacts To Simon’s CAF Men’s Player Of The Year Nomination

Former Super Eagles head coach Augustine Eguavoen has celebrated Moses Simon’s nomination for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) men’s player of the year award p The award covers performances between... Read more Osimhen Tips Super Falcons For 10th WAFCON Title

Super Eagles and Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has backed the Super Falcons, to secure a record-extending 10th CAF Women’s Cup of Nations title at this year’s edition in Morocco. The 2022... Read more Mikel Raises stakes with Back2Base Talent Hunt Project

When former Super Eagles and Chelsea star, John Obi Mikel, showed up at the Evans Square, Ebute Metta in Lagos to play football with locals on the sandy pitch, many had... Read more Serena’s conqueror Tan into Wimbledon fourth round

Harmony Tan, who knocked Serena Williams out of Wimbledon, demolished British wild card Katie Boulter 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday in just 51 minutes to reach the fourth round. The 24-year-old French... Read more 2022 WAFCON:’No African Team Better Than Nigeria’ —Falcons Star, Onumonu Boasts

Ahead of this year’s Women’s Cup of Nations in Morocco, Ifeomu Onumonu says the Super Falcons is still the team to beat in Africa as they prepare to land a record-extending... Read more ‘We Don’t know Victor Moses whereabouts’ –Spartak Moscow

Dmitry Zelenov head of Spartak Moscow’s press service, has announced that the club is expecting to hear news about Nigerian forward Victor Moses in the future. Over the past days, there... Read more Diamond League: Amusan Moves Six Points Clear In 100m Hurdles Standing

Reigning Nigeria, Africa and Commonwealth Games champion, Tobiloba Amusan has moved six points clear of her nearest rival as the race for the final Diamond League spots continued Thursday at the... Read more Nigeria Women’s 4x100m Relay Team ‘Qualify’ For World Championships

The Nigerian women’s 4x100m relay team will compete at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA after France failed to name a team for the event. The French Athletics Association on... Read more Governor Wike Hails Resilient Rivers United • Brace Up For Big Task Ahead

Rivers State Governor Nysom Wike has hailed the resilient spirit of players, coaches and management of Rivers United FC as the team tops the just concluded Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL)... Read more Okere retains Alukimba Table Tennis tournament title

• Onadipe Wins Maiden Jejune League Uchechi Okere has successfully defended his title at the 11th yearly Alukimba Table Tennis tournament organised by Elmarino Sports Club, Lagos. Okere defeated Hilton Enearu in... Read more Ministry to open Commonwealth Games camp July 9

The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, yesterday, disclosed that the country’s team to the forthcoming Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will begin camping on July 9. Nigeria will begin its national... Read more Brume eyes ‘improved performance’ at Diamond League today

Four days after jumping 6.89 metres to win the gold medal at the National Trials in Benin City, reigning African women long jump champion, Ese Brume, is eyeing ‘improved performance’ this... Read more Nigeria celebrates as men’s 4x100m relay team makes it to Oregon

Twenty-four hours after Nigeria’s women’s 4x100m relay team was disqualified from Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships due to Blessing Okagbare’s additional one-year drug ban, officials of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria... Read more ‘Joshua desperate to regain his titles, also is Usyk’

Anthony Joshua will be different but so will I, warns Oleksandr Usyk ahead of the heavyweight rematch, reports skysports.com. “I’m definitely hungry, I’m definitely desperate,” says Joshua ahead of his second... Read more Richarlison: Tottenham agree £60m deal to sign Everton forward

Richarlison is set to undergo a medical in the coming days in Brazil and complete the move; Everton under pressure to meet Premier League Profit and Sustainability rules; Richarlison scored 10... Read more Simon, Amoo Nominated For CAF Player Of The Year Award

Moses Simon is in the running for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Player of the Year award, reports Completesports.com. CAF released the first list of nominees for the Men’s categories... Read more BAR TAB Lionel Messi heads on holiday with Barcelona pals Cesc Fabregas and Luis Suarez in Ibiza alongside stunning Wags

IONEL MESSI continued his birthday celebrations in Ibiza with ex-Barcelona pals as they took in a David Guetta gig. The Paris Saint-Germain star, now 35, partied with former team-mates Cesc Fabregas and Luis Suarez... Read more UAM Tillers, DELSU Titans qualify HiFL’s round of 16

EKSU, KASU are new boys on the block Maiden champions of the Higher Institutions Football League (HiFL), UAM Tillers of Makurdi, have qualified for the round of 16 of the 2022... Read more Dare splashes N2m on victorious Golden Eaglets, praises NFF

Sports and Youth Development Minister, Sunday Dare has heaped plaudits on the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation for making merit and competence its watchwords in selection of coaches for the age-grade... Read more Ndugba, Iroegbu lead D’Tigers’ 12-man squad to FIBA African World Cup qualifiers

NBA G League star, Ikenna Ndugba and free agent, Uchenna Iroegbu, are top of D’Tigers’ 12-man list released by the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) for the third window of the FIBA... Read more Okagbare’s additional one-year ban has badly depleted our squad, AFN laments

• Nigeria loses Oregon 2022 women’s 4x100m relay spot• ‘Commonwealth Games team not affected’ For the first time, Nigeria’s athletics is feeling the impact of the ban placed on U.S.-based sprinter,... Read more Rangers Legend, Miller Urges Aribo To Join Crystal Palace

Rangers legend Kenny Miller has advised Joe Aribo to seek a move to Crystal Palace. Aribo, who has a year left on his contract at Rangers has been linked with a... Read more ‘World Cup Qualification More Important Than Winning WAFCON’ —Super Falcons Coach, Waldrum

Super Falcons head coach Randy Waldrum says his team’s main goal at the 2022 WAFCON in Morocco is to qualify for next year’s women’s World Cup. The Falcons are gunning for... Read more Cech joins list of Chelsea departures

Petr Cech became the latest member of Chelsea’s senior management team to leave the club on Monday following a change in ownership. Long-serving chairman Bruce Buck and director Marina Granovskaia also... Read more Joshua will bomb out Usyk to regain titles, says trainer

Trainer, Robert Garcia, raves about the punching power of his fighter, Anthony Joshua, and he believes he can overpower unified heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, by bombing him from the outside in... Read more Djokovic brings curtain up on Wimbledon

Novak Djokovic begins his bid to match Pete Sampras as a seven-time Wimbledon champion on Monday, with British Grand Slam title winners Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu also on Centre Court’s... Read more 2022 WAFU B: Five Eaglets Players Make Team Of The Tournament, Ugbade Named Best Coach

Five Golden Eaglets players were included in the Best Eleven squad of the recently concluded 2022 WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament in Ghana. The Best Eleven of the competition was published... Read more NFF Election 2022: The Case Against Amaju Pinnick’s Tenure Elongation Tricks

The intrigues for the September 2022 election into various positions in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) executive committee board has began in earnest. The father fox is on prowl trying ways... Read more