Newly crowned ITTF African Cup champion, Quadri Aruna, Olajide Omotayo, Edem Offiong and Fatima Bello have qualified for the table tennis event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Aruna qualified automatically as the African champion while the three other Nigerians secured their tickets at the African Qualifiers for the Olympics over the weekend. Offiong was the first Nigerian to secure her Paris ticket in the qualifiers...
Seven Nigeria players featured in the 2023-24 Premier League season for four clubs. Taiwo Awoniyi and Ola Aina played for Nottingham Forest, Gabriel Osho and Femi Onyedinma are in the books of Luton Town, Calvin Bassey and Alex Iwobi featured for Fulham and Frank Onyeka impressed at Brentford. Afrosport ranks the performances of each player ahead of their final league games of the campaign. 1. Alex...
The Flamingos were a class apart at the Abuja National Stadium on Saturday evening as they dispatched Burkina Faso 6-0 and 7-1 on aggregate to move into the final round of the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifiers. The first leg ended 1-1 in Bamako but the Burkinabe ladies were no match for the Flamingos who went ahead in the 11th minute through Chidi Harmony...
Victor Boniface found the back of the net as Bayer Leverkusen recorded a 2-1 win over Augsburg at the BayArena to end the 2023-24 Bundesliga season unbeaten. The Pharmaceutical-backed outfit sealed their first-ever league title when they defeated Werder Bremen 5-0 on matchday 29 and have not lost their guard since then. Boniface put his team in front in the 12th minute after profiting off an...
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets were held to a goalless draw by familiar foes Burkina Faso in their opening Group B match in the WAFU B U17 AFCON qualifying tournament in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday. The match, which made for a poised encounter as it was evenly contested by both sides, was ruined in the latter stages by the playing conditions, as the heavy downpour at the University...
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