Tag: Sports

Israel Adesanya on Saturday reclaims his middleweight title from Alex Peirera with a spectacular knockout during the UFC 287 in Miami, Florida. Peirera had previously beaten Adesanya three times, which makes this victory revenge. See how it happened:

The FIFA global ranking for February has slipped Nigeria to 36th position dropping the team by one point as they formerly held the 35th position. In the African ranking, the Super Eagles ranks the fifth best country as Senegal retains the No.1 spot,...

Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka, second-seed, defeated Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova to win their second Grand Slam trophy as a team at the Australian Open. The 22-year-old Sabalenka who intends to focus more on the singles dominated winning the duo 6-2, 6-3.

Nigeria's boxers have expressed their acerbating towards their elusive attempt in partaking in the 2021 World Olympics Boxing Qualifying Tournament in June in Paris which was cancelled due to COVID-19 worries. The Worldwide boxers are to compete for 52 places in the Tokyo...

Guinness Book of World Records has recognised Nigerian athlete to attend the Athletics Diamonds Meetings 67 times. The athlete on Wednesday shared her news on her verified Instagram account."A dream made a reality through God's grace and determination", she wrote"Look what finally came...

The 20th National Sports Festival has again been postponed to April 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic and the lack of funds needed for the event.The postponement of the festival which was planned to hold from February 14 to 28 in Benin, Edo State was decided at...

After being dropped from the Super Eagles squad for the two friendly matches between Ukraine and Brazil, South Africa based goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi leads the pack of returnee players to the squad for the double header AFCON 2021 qualifiers against Benin and Lesotho. The...

The FIFA U-17 World is set to kick off in Brazil tomorrow, October 26, with five-time world champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria set to continue its superb form which has seen it stun the world on five different occasions. However, many Nigerians do not know the...

The English Premiership entered its 9th week in the weekend of October 19 and 20 with sumptuous match ups served the teeming fans of the league. In the day's early game, Everton lifted the pressure on boss Marco Silva with a deserved 2-0 victory over a disappointing...