SPORT

ABUJA – The Youth and Sports Development Minister, Mr Sunday Dare has handed over the pitch of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium to the Dangote Group, for the commencement of rehabilitation work. The renovation work which will be completed in 24 weeks was in fulfilment of the promise made a …

By Abiola Rufai ILARO-YEWA – The Transition Chairman of Yewa South Local Government area of Ogun State, Alhaji Rahmon Olabode Fagbenro has promised to implement policies that would aid sports talents among youths. Olabode gave the assurance while paying host to the Council’s Team that represented the Local Government at …

Angel Gomes, the Manchester United youngster who attended TB Joshua’s church in Lagos in 2016 could be set to sign a contract extension with the former Premier League champions. This has been suggested by Manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer ahead of their Premier League return against Tottenham. Gomes is out of …

It has been reported that Nigerian forward, Victor Osimhen is a more valuable and expensive player than Cristiano Ronaldo. According to the verdict of CIES Football Observatory which carried out an analysis on the most valuable players across the five major leagues in Europe, the Lille forward was valued at …

ABUJA: The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has placed the mother of late Super Eagles striker, Rashidi Yekini, Alhaja Sikiratu, on a monthly stipend of N10,000. Mr. Olaitan Shittu, a representative of the Minister of Sports, Mr. Sunday Dare, disclosed this at Ijagbo, near Offa in Kwara on …

With the revitalised news of Prophet TB Joshua’s influence in the victory of the Ghanaian team at the Under 20 World Cup in 2009, let us cast a glance on his previous prophetic involvement in football. T.B. Joshua is no stranger when it comes to the fusion of spirituality and …

GHANA: Former Ghana U-20 midfielder, Gladson Awako, has revealed that Nigerian pastor, TB Joshua, contributed to Ghana’s 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup triumph in Egypt by offering the team prayers before each game and arranging the order of Ghana’s penalty takers in the final against Brazil. Ghana became the first …

Many Nigerians have complained about how the country forgets their own, especially those who have served their fatherland in one aspect or the other in times past, when they are faced with difficult moments. One of such victims is former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Fregene, who suffered a spinal cord …

By Israel Ayedun *Lazio are interested in signing Chelsea and France striker Olivier Giroud, 33.(Sky Sports) *Chelsea will make a late second bid to sign Napoli and Belgium forward Dries Mertens, 32, after their first approach was rejected.(Telegraph) *Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani, 32, will not leave Paris St-Germain during the …

By Israel Ayedun *Barcelona made a late bid to try to hijack Manchester United’s move for Sporting Lisbon’s Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, 24.(Mirror) *Barcelona had planned to sign Fernandes from Sporting and immediately loan him to Valencia in order to secure a deal for Valencia’s 28-year-old Spain striker Rodrigo – …