Nigerian table tennis star Quadri Aruna will be featuring for the second time at the WTT Cup Finals after the African champion joined the list of top 16 elite players listed for the $1m prize money championships in Xinxiang, China from October 27th to 30th.

The Chairman, NFF Task Force on youth competitions, Alh. Aminu Balele Kurfi has pledged the sum of $20,000 for the U23 men national team, Olympic Eagles, if they beat Tanzania in the first leg of their U23 AFCON qualifying fixture in Dar es Salaam on Saturday.  

Nigeria will play joint-hosts Australia, Canada and Republic of Ireland in Group B of the 9^th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals happening in the summer of next year.

Nigeria’s U17 girls say they foresee an interesting encounter when they tackle United States of America in Navi Mumbai in one of the quarter finals matches of this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau says it is incumbent on the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Professional Football League to imbue the nation’s elite domestic cadre with integrity, credibility and a firm hand on management and administration in order to turn things around for the better.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Wednesday in Benin City charged the new Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau to enthrone the ethos of transparency, openness and inclusiveness in running the game in the country, and to not shy away from taking stern measures to curb the malaise of hooliganism in the domestic League.

The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has in its custody a letter of petition from some special athletes over the exclusion of some of their sports from the 21st National Sports Festival, Delta 2022.

Nigerian women football league champions Bayelsa Queens can be N292 million richer if they win the 2022 CAF Women’s Champions League which begins on Oct. 30 in Morocco.

The U-23 National team will depart the shores of Nigeria via Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos today for the first leg of the second round AFCON U23 qualifiers against Tanzania.

Clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League are pushing for an abridged league for the 2022/23 season.

The organisers of the 5th Edo Heritage Sports Festival and Carnival, yesterday said about 2,800 persons are expected to participate in the forthcoming sporting event slated for November in Edo state.

Some physically-challenged persons on Wednesday staged a protest in the Surulere area of Lagos, causing a traffic gridlock which kept motorists on the roads for hours.