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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 Pastor Ize Iyamu Watches As Dynamo FC Wins Maiden Edition of U-14 Competition Marking Celebration Of Nigeria’s 2nd Storey Building

It was thrills and frills at the Arinze Primary School field in Benin City as two Under-14 teams put on a fascinating exhibition of skills, pace and strength in the final...... Read more Emery On Way Out of Arsenal?

It needs blurting out. Arsenal are a club in a considerable disarray as far as their performances in the pitch go and their last match away against Watford in which they...... Read more Salisu Yusuf’s Return from Corruption Suspension: NFF’s Hands Tied?

Let me present my unreserved apology to the very numerous readers of this news medium and by extension this column on its unavoidable absence last week Monday. It was so encouraging...... Read more Osabu FC and Nigerian Grassroots Star Idoghor Signs for Omani Club

The sun to professional football outside the shores of Nigeria has shone for grassroots defender Bright Idoghor of Benin City-based club Osabu FC as he has just penned a long term...... Read more IRON MAN: Young Nigerian Midfielder Moses Kalu Rising in Status in Czech Republic

Midfield battler Moses Kalu is currently turning heads in the Czech Republic and the young Nigerian is one name to watch as he comes through the ranks of the youth team...... Read more Nigerian Coach Cancels Coaching Course in South Africa Over Xenophobic Attacks; Top Latvian Club Visits Nigeria To Pick Players

Appalled by the violent attacks on African nationals by xenophobic South Africans in that country, Nigerian youth coach Nnamdi Onuigbo of IB Sports Dream Academy has decided not to further his...... Read more Man Utd and Chelsea’s Lack of Genuine Star Players Undermining the Good Work of Their Youngsters

Manchester United and Chelsea have had a poor start to their English Premier League campaign and that was not exactly unpredictable. Both clubs have only won one of their four games...... Read more Africa Games Ends Status Quo Ante, NPFL 2019 Season On The Wings To Kick-Off

At the risk of sounding pessimistic, everything in present Nigeria is heading downwards and the people in power seem overwhelmed but have constantly failed to own up to obvious shortfalls. To...... Read more Edo FA Chairman to meet Edo youth coaches on grassroots football development

In a bid to reposition youth football and ensure the better development of grassroots players in Edo State, the recently elected chairman of the Edo FA Henry Asemota has called for...... Read more Emery needs to sort his Arsenal out fast

The 2019/20 English premier league's plot has already begun to thicken like a rich pot of Ogbono soup on the boil with Manchester City and Liverpool showing little or no signs...... Read more Nigeria Loses Football Administrator Par Excellence Prince Isidore Oduah

On Sunday, August 24, 2019, the cold hands of death came calling, taking the life of veteran sports administrator of great repute, Prince Isidore Oduah. Oduah was a former member of...... Read more The Dutch Model of Developing Young Footballers; Benin Warriors Rready for Bet9ja Royal Cup in Delta

Despite Ajax going agonisingly close to reaching the Champions league final, the Eredevisie (the Dutch top league) seems to be out of fashion with Premier League recruiters. Only two players moved...... Read more The VAR Controversy That Made Jesus Weep

It was yet another exciting weekend of football action in the English Premier League which entered Week 2 last weekend. VAR’s introduction into the English league is expected to clean some...... Read more