The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has urged Golden Eaglets to go all out and ensure that they defeat their Burkina Faso counterparts in Friday’s semi-final encounter of the ongoing WAFU U-17 championship taking place in Togo. Lawan spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone through his Special Adviser (SA) on Sports, Sani Fema. He urged the team to focus on the record already set by the country in U-17 football both at...

The Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) has unveiled its 2021 activities aimed at enhancing the development of the game in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Dayo Abulude, the Secretary-General of the Federation, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the Federation would be organisimg various local tournaments, as well as participate in international competitions. He said these would include wheelchair international tournaments’ World Qualifiers, and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis Junior,...

Hosts Rivers United Football Club on Sunday defeated Kwara United FC 3-0 in a 2020/2021  Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt. Stanley Eguma, Technical Adviser of Rivers United, told sportswriters after the Match Day 3 game that the result was the product of discipline on the field of play. “We started working on the players in the area of character and discipline, and as you can see today,...