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It was all win for Nigeria last night as  Super Eagles winger, ADEMOLA LOOKMAN, scooped the CAF Footballer of the Year for at Marrakech, Morocco. LOOKMAN was announced as the winner at an elaborate event, beating off competitions from Ivory Coast’s SIMON ADINGRA and PSG’s ACHRAF HAKIMI, Guinea striker SERHOU GUIRASSY and South Africa goalkeeper RONWEN WILLIAMS, to take home the award. Similarly, Super Falcons star,  CHIAMAKA NNADOZIE has won the Goalkeeper of the Year at the CAF Awards 2024, winning it for the second successive year after […]

West Ham edged to a narrow Premier League victory over struggling Wolves to ease the pressure on under-fire head coach JULEN LOPETEGUI. TOMAS SOUCEK'S second-half header from JARROD BOWEN'S corner had set the hosts on their way. MATT DOHERTY had superbly levelled from RAYAN AIT-NOURI'S cross for the visitors, before BOWEN scored West Ham's decisive second goal with a placed effort during a frantic spell in the second-half. The result leaves West Ham 14th in the table, nine points […]

The Super Eagles yesterday defeated Grassrunners FC 1-0 in their first friendly ahead of the 2025 African Nations Championship qualifier against Ghana in Ikenne. Substitute PAPA DANIEL scored the winning goal in the second half. The Eagles, who opened camping for the qualifier in Ikenne on Wednesday are expected to play more friendlies before the clash with the Black Galaxies. Ghana will host the first leg at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday, December 22, […]

Bundesliga clubs,  Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and VFB Stuttgart have joined the race to sign GIFT ORBAN. ORBAN is expected to leave Ligue 1 outfit, Olympic Lyon, in January after failing to secure a regular playing berth at the club. Turkish Super Lig side, Trabzonspor, are also reportedly interested in the Nigerian. Lyon signed the forward for around 14m euros from Belgian Pro League club, KAA Gent, in January 2023,  but the […]

Nigerian international and Bayer Leverkusen striker, Victor Boniface will be unavailable for today’s Champions League match against Brest due to a recent car accident. Boniface was involved in an accident on Sunday in Germany, when the car he was in collided with a truck and also shared images and a video on social media showing a black Mercedes with a damaged chassis along with photos of his blood-soaked arm.  It was reported […]

TAIWO AFOLABI, has been named Player of the Match following Flamingos’ 4-1 victory over New Zealand last night. The number 10 bossed the midfield all day and got a goal for herself early in the second half, nodding home Nigeria’s fourth goal of the day on 55 minutes. SHAKIRAT MOSHOOD, KHADIJAT ADEGOKE and FARIDAT ABDULWAHABwere the other goal scorers for BANKOLE OLOWOOKERE’S side in the game. Flamingos occupy top spot in the group with three […]

Wimbledon has announced that it will replace all 300 line judges with artificial intelligence and an electronic system from next year, removing human officials for the first time in the championship's 147-year history. The All England Club has confirmed all 18 match courts will be installed with automated electronic line calling (ELC), and the system will be the same as the one used at the US Open since 2020, where automated […]