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Monday, February 06, 2012 |
Bolaji Abdullahi Sports Minister/Chairman National Sports Commission NSC, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, has allayed apprehension raised by football sponsors, assuring that nothing would happen to any sponsorship deal properly documented with the Nigeria Football Federation NFF and or the Nigerian Premier League NPL. The minister, who gave t ...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 |
Ghana entered the tournament as one of the favourites. In her opening match of the group stages, Ghana met Botswana. In a match dominated by John Mensah, for his winning goal and a red card for an unceremonious tackle on Jerome Ramathlakwane, Ghana took home all three points. It was a scrappy performance but her first win of the tournament, none t ...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 |
Certainly, the name of Senator Alkali Abdukadir Jajere, a Member Senate Committee on Sports, does not in any way ring bell to many Nigerians. However, when Sunday Sunsports engaged him in an exclusive interview recently, the senator representing Yobe South Senatorial District of Yobe State proved that he is not only a sports enthusiast, but als ...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 |
Manchester City comfortably beat Fulham 3-0 to move three points clear of Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table as snow engulfed northern England in freezing conditions on Saturday.Arsenal stayed in contention for a top four finish by crushing Blackburn Rovers 7-1 at the Emirates where Robin Van Persie scored a hat-tr ...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 |
Barcelona stayed on the heels of La Liga leaders Real Madrid when a side containing several youngsters from their B team secured a 2-1 win at home to Real Sociedad on Saturday.Real had earlier deployed close to their strongest team in a 1-0 victory at city rivals Getafe, defender Sergio Ramos nodding in the only goal on a bitterly cold ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
Zambia Battles Sudan PHYSICAL football and tight marking are just some of what should be expected in todays quarterfinal game between co-host of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, Equatorial Guinea and the Elephants of Cote dIvoire. The Nzalang Nacional, which has stunned its critics, is making attempt to out stage the west Africans, who arri ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
Rugby flexed its muscles worldwide and in Nigeria in 2011 LOOKING back 2011 was a vintage year for Rugby. Four faces celebrated victories on massively different stages in vastly different ways around the planet. Everywhere rugby was played it held its head up high. When Richie McCaw, the colossus of New Zealand, and captain of the fearsome ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
Football fans from across the globe were stunned on Wednesday when a melee broke out between fans of two Egyptian clubs, Al-Masry and Al-Ahly, leaving at least 73 people dead and 1,000 injured in the Mediterranean port city of Port Said, one of venues used during the 2006 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. In this reports, GOWON AKPODONOR looks ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
FOR the Managing Director, Golfteq Systems Limited, Babatunde Tobun, making golf, a sport for all was the reason why he decided to bring the golf simulator to Nigeria. Tobun, an account based in United Kingdom UK, felt that it is possible for Nigerians to be among the best golfers in the world, but said this would only be possible if childre ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
Action recorded between Gombe United and Heartland players. Defending champion, Dolphins of Port Harcourt, has full hands this weekend as it hosts in-form Gombe United in the star match of Week 7 fixtures of the current Nigeria Premier League NPL season.The Savannah Scorpions, Gombe United, currently tops the league ladder with 13 points ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
Nigerias Under 17 Womens team, otherwise known as the Flamingos, looks almost certain to progress to the final round of the qualifying race for one of the tickets to represent Africa at this years FIFA U-17 Womens World Cup holding in Azerbaijan later in the year. The Peter Dedevbo-tutored side keeps a date with its Kenyan counterpart in t ...
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Friday, February 03, 2012 |
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has invited 30 players to the camp of Super Eagles ahead of the international friendly match against the Lone Star of Liberia in Monrovia on Wednesday, February 15. The 49-year old Eagles former captain, now in South Africa analysing the on-going African Cup of Nations finals for Supersport, and who is ...
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Friday, February 03, 2012 |
FIFA has demanded a full report on the violence at the match in Egypt on Wednesday night that left more than 70 persons dead.Al Masry fans invaded the pitch after a surprise 3-1 win over Cairo club, Al-Ahly, in Port Said Wednesday night, with reports saying as many as 79 peersons died in the ensuing violence. There have been claims that sec ...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
As the first round of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations comes to a close, half of the original 16-team field is facing a disappointing trip home. But for the neutral, it has been among the more exciting continental championships in the last decade, full of shocks and upsets, passionate support for surprising co-hosts, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, ...
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