Mohamed Salah will be unavailable for Liverpool’s Premier League game with Burnley as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury he suffered while on international duty with Egypt at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The 31-year-old picked up the injury in the first half of the Pharaohs’ 2-2 Group B draw with Ghana and missed the rest of the tournament as the seven-time AFCON...
Former Ivory Coast coach Jean-Louis Gasset has tipped Nigeria as favourites to lift the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations ahead of the Elephants. Gasset led Ivory Coast into the tournament but he left his position as head coach after the country's poor run of results in the group stage. The French coach was replaced by his assistant, Emerse Fae who has steered the Elephants into the...
Nigeria women's basketball team began their quest to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a 72-65 win against Senegal on Thursday. D’Tigress rallied to a seven-point lead in the fourth quarter after trailing in the second and third quarters. Nigeria made a bright start to the game in Antwerp with a 20-18 lead in the first quarter but they fell behind with nine points...
Three Nigerians have been confirmed dead while watching the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final game between Nigeria and South Africa on Wednesday. An Igbo businessman identified as Chief Osondu ‘Angus’ Nwoye slumped inside the Stade de la Paix in Bouake after South Africa scored a late penalty on the stroke of full-time to force the game into extra-time. A politician named Cairo Ojougboh who previously...
French coach Jean-Louis Gasset will not be getting any medal for Ivory Coast's success at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The competitions department of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), confirmed that the mutual termination of Gasset's contract in the group stage will not allow him to add to his list of coaching achievements. Gasset led the Elephants into the tournament that's been staged on...
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