Spanish top side, Barcelona have named former midfielder and captain Xavi Hernandez as first-team coach on a contract until 2024, following the sacking of Ronald Koeman.

Abdu Maikaba, the newly recruited Technical Adviser (TA) of Rangers International Football Club (FC ) of Enugu, was on Wednesday welcomed to the club by General Manager Davidson Owumi in his office, a statement by Rangers FC media officer, Norbert Okolie, has said.

The D’ Tigress, Nigeria’s national women basketball team, have finally received $100,000 dollars (N41. 1 million) as their share of the ‘Adopt-A-Sport initiative’ payment.

Few days after the sack of Nuno Expirito Santo, Tottenham have announced the appointment of Antonio Conte as their new head coach

Rilwan Akanbi and Fatimo Bello have emerged winners of the men’s singles and women’s singles events at the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Western Region Championship in the best of seven games.

Head Coach Gernot Rohr has listed team captain Ahmed Musa, deputy captain William Ekong, defenders Kenneth Omeruo and Leon Balogun, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Alex Iwobi, forwards Moses Simon and Victor Osumhen, as well as 16 others for Nigeria’s closing Group C games of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 African race against Liberia and Cape Verde this month.

Coach Abdu Maikaba, unveiled on Thursday as the new technical adviser of Rangers International FC of Enugu, has described the club as the best-organised in Nigeria.

Premiership side, Tottenham football has sacked head coach, Nuno Espirito Santo less than five months after being appointed as head coach.

Tayo Popoola, General Coordinator, Lagos Women Run, on Thursday, said over 400 women had registered for the physical run from different countries, while several others registered for the virtual run.

Opuene Yekorogha, the coach of Bayelsa Queens Handball team, said late preparations affected their performance at the ongoing 2021 Prudent Energy Handball Premier League.

The Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York has honoured Nigerian-born chess champion, Tanitoluwa ‘Tani’ Adewumi, who won chess championship in the U.S. at the age of eight.

The embattled former president of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Musa Kida has finally bowed to pressure to postpone the NBBF Congress as ordered by the ministry of Youth and Sports.