International football gets underway in Europe for the first time in 2025 as the Nations League moves into the quarter-finals stage and the continent’s 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign gets underway. Nations League promotion/relegation play-offs are also on the cards in a week where all the European big guns are in action. AFP Sport looks […]
Liverpool boss Arne Slot admitted his team had been extremely fortunate in their 1-0 win away to Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League last 16 first leg on Wednesday as he heaped praise on goal-scoring hero Harvey Elliott. “If we had a draw over here we would have already been the lucky one. That is […]
Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso said keeping a cool head would be the secret to making his side’s recent dominance of Bayern Munich count in the Champions League last 16. Managing in the top flight for just a second full season, Alonso may be inexperienced in coaching terms, but the Spaniard knows a thing or […]
Liverpool manager Arne Slot will be absent from the touchline for Wednesday’s home game against Newcastle after receiving a two-match suspension and a hefty fine for his actions during the Merseyside derby. The controversy arose after James Tarkowski’s stoppage-time equaliser secured a 2-2 draw for Everton at Goodison Park on February 12, leading to chaotic […]
Atalanta co-owner Stephen Pagliuca has acknowledged that head coach Gian Piero Gasperini ‘made a mistake’ with his comments about Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman but insists the Italian remains a ‘great and passionate coach.’ The controversy stemmed from Gasperini’s public criticism of Lookman after the forward missed a crucial penalty against Club Brugge in the Champions […]
Lionel Messi was on target again as Inter Miami surged into the CONCACAF Champions Cup last 16 with a 3-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Tuesday, winning the tie 4-1 on aggregate. Messi scored in the 1-0 first-leg win in icy Kansas City last week and it took him only 19 minutes to find […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed deep sorrow on Tuesday over the tragic death of Abubakar Lawal, a Nigerian professional footballer in Uganda. Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirmed the sudden passing of Lawal in a statement in Abuja. Tuggar, in the statement issued by Kimiebi Ebienfa, Acting Spokesperson for the Ministry, […]
Nigeria has joined the three other countries in Group B of the 2025 Afrobasket qualifiers, Cape Verde, Libya, and Uganda, in qualifying for this year’s final championship slated for Angola even before yesterday’s final round of games in Libya. Nigeria won two games and lost three to garner seven points, same with Uganda, which was […]
Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, says the federal government is working round the clock to employ 28,000 health workers whose salaries were previously covered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Speaking on Channels Television, Pate said the move is in line with the government’s plans to absorb the […]
In a show of composure, grit and technical brilliance, Nigeria’s representative in the 2025 Africa Badminton Championship, Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori, won the tournament. Opeyori secured this victory over Egypt’s Adham Hatem Elgamal in the men’s singles final of the All-Africa Senior Badminton Championship in Douala, Cameroon, on Sunday. This win is his seventh African title. […]
