Three-time champions Nigeria have picked a team of 25 players for their onslaught for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title, with Head Coach Jose Peseiro settling for usual suspects in a roster that has three goalkeepers, nine defenders, five midfielders and eight forwards.

Management and coaches of the ‘Flying Antelopes’, Rangers International F.C, have put all strategic plans in motion to ensure the team returns to its winning ways as the 2023/2024 NPFL season enters its match day 14 with the expected visit of premiership new boys, Sporting Lagos F.C to the Awka City Stadium, Awka, Anambra state.

The inaugural JOE Tennis Tournament reached a thrilling conclusion with worthy champions emerging in both junior and professional categories at the Calabar Sports Club on Monday evening.

The young but strong shoulders of the G.M/CEO of Rangers International F.C, Barrister Amobi Ezeaku, has further been saddled with the task of being the Patron of the Sports Law Society Association of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.

Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu and his wards have their eyes set for the maximum points at stake as the ‘Flying Antelopes’, Rangers International F.C of Enugu return to its hallowed ground, Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, ‘The Cathedral’ for the rearranged match day 16, NPFL 2023/2024 fixture against old rivals, Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan on Thursday, December 28, 2023.

World football-governing body, FIFA has approved a total of 30 Nigerian referees to be placed on the international lists for the year 2024, among them 11 referees, 11 assistant referees, four beach soccer referees and four futsal referees.

The interim president of the Nigerian Boxing Federation, (NBF), Azania Omo-Agege has reacted to the recent celebrity boxing fight between two Nigerian Superstars

...says sports achievement is a barometer for evaluating effective and meaningful governance

The Honourable Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh is leading a ministerial retreat on athletes' performance at the 2024 Olympic and 2024 Africa Games, which focuses on addressing some of the factors responsible for the poor performance of Nigerian athletes at international sports competitions.

World football-governing body, FIFA has moved the 2024 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup final qualifying round, first leg match between Nigeria and Burundi from Bujumbura to Dar es Salaam in nearby Tanzania, as the world body has deemed the pitch in Bujumbura unfit to host the game.

 ...harps on home grown solution to football development 

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) on Tuesday congratulated the trio of Victor Osimhen, Asisat Oshoala and Chiamaka Nnadozie for emerging the best male and female footballers in Africa during a prestigious event which held on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco.

............Bishop Amakri, Engr Edward praises impact of the football Academy in FCT

Former Nigerian football star, Femi Ajilore, and the proprietor of FAFC, a football academy in the Federal Capital Territory has rolled out progress made by the academy in the outgoing year, 2023.

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau was a very happy man on Monday night, as Nigeria swept important honours at this year’s CAF Football Awards held in Marrakech, Morocco.