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Nigeria’s 2008 long jump silver medalist Blessing Okagbare has been banned for 10 years for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday.  The 33-year-old, who is also a sprinter, was expelled from the Tokyo Olympics…

Cameroon's national football team, the Indomitable Lions, Sunday donated $85,000 and dedicated their 2-0 victory over the Scorpions of Gambia to victims of the stampede that killed eight and injured 38 at Yaoundé's Olembe stadium this week.…

A statue of the late legendary basketballer, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna was placed on the site of their helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Wednesday, the second anniversary of their tragic deaths and that of seven…

President Mamady Doumbouya has forgiven the Guinea team for losing in the AFCON2021. Says his ultimatum that they'd refund the money spent on them if they don't win the cup was just to encourage them. He understands team building takes…

Former aide of the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari should be blamed for the defeat suffered by the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Cameroon. The Carthage Eagles of Tunisia defeated the…

Activist Omoyele Sowore on Sunday said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), transferred ‘bad luck’ to the Super Eagles of Nigeria through a video conference he had with the team earlier on Sunday shortly before the Eagles’…

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah has been nominated for The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year award for 2021. Salah, who plays his club football for Liverpool, will contest the award alongside last year’s winner Robert Lewandowski of…

Prophet Nigel Gaisie of the True Word Fire Prophetic Ministries has warned of a terrorist attack during the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cameroon. Gaisie disclosed that he foresaw terrorists detonating explosives in a…

Barcelona and Argentina striker Sergio Aguero on Wednesday announced his retirement from football at a tearful press conference, just over a month after the 33-year-old was diagnosed with a heart problem. “I have decided to stop playing…

Nigeria Football Federation is considering hiring Serbian Mladen Krstajić as new head coach of the Super Eagles, The PUNCH has learnt. Pressure has mounted on the NFF to sack Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, after the national team put up…