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Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen has been nominated for the 2023 Ballon d’Or award, becoming one of the few players from the country to have achieved the feat. The Napoli striker was in impeccable form last season, helping the Italian…

Following a good season with Barcelona Femeni, Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria has been nominated for the 2023 Women's Ballon d'Or. The 30-person shortlist was announced by French Football, the award's organisers, via a tweet on their…

Fulham have completed the signing of Everton midfielder Alex Iwobi in a deal which could reach £22m. The 27-year-old Nigeria midfielder joined Everton from Arsenal in the summer of 2019 and made 123 league appearances for the…

Israel Adesanya, the middleweight champion of the UFC, will premiere his film "Stylebender" in September 2023. Following a worldwide premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan in June, the fighter, who was born in…

Nigeria’s Super Falcons have moved up eight places from 40th to 32nd team in the world according to the latest women’s ranking released by FIFA on Friday. In the list by the world football governing body, the eleven-time African…

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back “stronger” next year after she lost her world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with journalists after the game, Amusan said…

Tobi Amusan, the world's fastest woman in the 100-meter hurdles, will start defending her championship on Tuesday (today) at Budapest's National Athletics Centre. In accordance with the championship's event schedule, the race gets…

Manchester United forward and England player Mason Greenwood will leave Old Trafford, the Premier League club has announced following an investigation into allegations of attempted rape of which he was cleared earlier this year. “All…

World 100 metres hurdles champion Tobi Amusan has expressed her delight after being cleared of doping violations by an independent tribunal on Thursday. Last month, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) provisionally suspended the…

Nigerian track queen Tobi Amusan has been cleared of doping violations with the provisional suspension on her lifted. “A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an…

The World Athletics has refuted reports that Tobi Amusan had been exonerated of all charges of doping and was now free to compete for the World Athletics Championship title in Budapest, Hungary. Tobi's participation in the future…

In their heavyweight boxing match on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, Anthony Joshua, a British boxer with Nigerian ancestry, knocked out Robert Helenius. A vicious strike from the former heavyweight champion's Finnish…

Nigeria women basketball team, D'Tigress, have won the 2023 Women’s Afrobasket championship, making it a record fourth title in a row. The D’Tigress defeated Senegal 84-74 in Kigali, Rwanda to etch their names in Nigerian basketball…

The prize money for the 2023 World Cup will be paid to the Super Falcons players directly, according to a FIFA announcement. The FIFA secretary-general, Fatma Samoura, said in a social media video that the Super Falcons of Nigeria…

Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala claims her father "is not happy" about her celebration after Nigeria defeated Australia 3-2 in the 2023 Women's World Cup. A little more than 10 minutes after entering the game in the 64th minute,…