Top Nigerian Players To Watch Out For This Season
From the lips of Nigerian citizens on the street to the finely tuned football pitches in England, the 2012/2013 English Premier league will hold center stage as it commenced on Saturday, 18th of August, 2012.
Olympics 2012: Nigeria’s Empty Medal Basket.
During the last moments of the games, while some countries were having a nice time scooping up and celebrating gold medals, Nigeria was still trying to get a bronze medal.
Olympics 2012: Support The Medal Hunt!
Within the last couple of weeks, Nigerians have witnessed setbacks in the ongoing Olympic competition, before then, sports stakeholders, administrators and Journalists have raised hopes of Nigerians, assuring the sports enthusiasts of our ability to win a couple of medals.
Olympics 2012: Team Nigeria’s Medal shyness
The London Olympic Games has gone one week and yet team Nigeria has not even a bronze in our medal basket. When some countries are already counting double figures of Gold medal, Team Nigeria is still some distances away from picking up a Bronze medal.
Olympics 2012: D’ Tigers Victorious against African champion, Tunisia!
In the early hours of the Sunday morning, D’ Tigers took to the court to face the Tunisian Basketball team. The game which ended with Nigeria on the winning end saw Alade Aminu scoring 15 points and nine rebounds while Ike Diogu added 13 points and 10 rebounds as Nigeria just beat Tunisia 60-56 in the opening game of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament.
Olympics 2012: Full List for Team Nigeria!
The opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games kicks off today. Out of the 26 sports which will be taking place in 28 venues, Nigeria will participate in 13 of the 26 sport events at the London 2012 Olympic Games. This was announced by the Ministry of Sports.
Should Nigeria Focus More On Basketball?
The countdown to the Olympic Games has gone from years to months to weeks and now a few days away. Preparations are already hitting home stretch and athletes and fans who will be involved are already sweating on the suspense of this spectacle.
Should Keshi Bring Back the Foreign Based Players?
Such is the situation with super Eagles head coach, Steven Okechukwu Keshi and his Philosophy to stick with the Home based players as the bed rock of his team. Severe criticism has emerged from all quotas concerning the unconvincing performance of the current Eagles Team which is highly dominated by the Home groomed talent.
London Olympics: Nigerian athletes impress.
The London Olympic Games could not have come at a better time. Recently at The African Athletics championship in Porto Novo, the Nigerian officials looked forward to a rush of medals and the athletes were favoured to win gold after their semi-final performances did not disappoint.
EXCLUSIVE: Super Eagles Face The Gunners in August!
The fixture Nigeria Vs Arsenal is not something we football audience are accustomed with. Arsenal FC and the Nigerian football Federation have concluded plans to play a friendly match on the 5th of August 2012 in Abuja.
The New Eagles and The Challenge So Far
In life, people go through rough patches and eventually get to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The Super eagles of Nigeria have tasted both sides of the coin and they are currently on a new adventure.
Super Eagles attempt to quench Flames in Malawi.
After the humbling of the brave warriors of Namibia at Calabar, the Super Eagles have arrived in Malawi attempting to make it two wins out of two.
Ike Uche saves the day for Nigeria
Call it a Lucky goal or a decisive goal, either way you won’t be wrong. Yesterday Nigerians were witnesses to a highly tensed match at Esuene Stadium in Calabar against the brave warriors of Namibia.
Keshi’s Eagles Show Promise.
By Obi Martins Okafor. In a match that could be regarded as a ‘grade A’ friendly match between our Super eagles who were richly dominated by the local players and the Peruvians from South America saw our Eagles emerge at the losing end of the score line; there are lots of positives which could be […]
Moses Bound to Rescue Nigeria
By Obi Martins Okafor So many plaudits have been heaped on the talent of Wigan Athletic’s exciting winger, Victor Moses but ‘a lifeguard’ is not one of the names mentioned. Nigerian football faces one of its most draught moments in its entire history and fresh mercenaries are being assembled to put an end to it. […]
Is Mikel Obi’s Champions League Success with Chelsea FC Good or Bad for Nigeria?
By Obi Martins Okafor This weekend, the stage will be set for the climatic Champions League finals match between ‘The Blues’ from London and ‘Bavarians’ from Munich. Only a few would have guessed that, a Nigerian would eventually make it to the finals this season. The season has brought a couple of upsets, starting […]