Portuguese soccer giant, Benfica is set to build a soccer academy in Ghana to unearth talents. The project will be spearheaded by Ghanaian licensed FIFA agent, Seedorf Asante, who is partnering the club to undertake its first major work on...
African football’s growing influence in Europe was confirmed after Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ended on top of the scoring charts in the English Premier League (EPL) with 22 goals each. Salah had gone into the final day’s...
Nigeria have climbed to the 38th position in the latest FIFA women’s world rankings released on the FIFA official website on Friday. The Super Falcons maintained their position as number one in Africa after amassing a total of 1,599 points...
Fifa’s revamped 24-team Club World Cup tournament, which will replace the Confederations Cup, will include three African teams. They will be joined by eight European clubs, as well as six teams from South America, three each from Asia and North...
Veteran Nigerian footballer Elderson Echiejile is off to Finland to join top club HJK Helsinki. The defender, who has 60 caps for his country, has signed a contract that will keep him there for a year though he has the...
The Qatar Volleyball Association has extended a wild card to athletes in the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF) to compete in this year’s Katara Beach Volleyball Cup. Francis Imoudu, The head coach of the beach volleyball team, made this known on...
The much-anticipated Monster Truck Juggernaut Monster Jam is set to hit Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg for the first time later this year. The family friendly mega motor sport event is set to make its debut at Moses Mabhida Stadium...
Paceman Kagiso Rabada is the only South African to find himself in the world’s One-Day International top-10 bowlers ranking which the International Cricket Council (ICC) released on Monday. South Africa fared slightly better in the batting department with two players...
The Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James and the Milwaukee Bucks’ Nigerian-born Giannis Antetokounmpo of Greece lead the list of 10 players – two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference – to start in the 2019 NBA All-Star Game....
Ethiopia’s Getaneh Molla produced the fastest marathon debut in history to win the Dubai Marathon, while Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich moved up to third on the women’s world all-time list at the IAAF Gold Label road race on Friday. In ideal...
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