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Kilimanjaro Stars head coach Marcio Maximo has called up goalie Mwarami Mohamed from Mozambique's premiership team ..to replace injured Ali Mustapha.
Tanzania's Joseph Kaniki has finally signed a two-year contract with Gefle IF of Sweden for the 2010 Premier Division League.
Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has received sh. 33.7 million ahead of the Tanzania Mainland under 20 Uhai Cup scheduled to start on November 29 in the city.
Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission, Engr. Sani Ndanusa is worried that if nothing is done to reposition the Olympic Sports in the country Nigeria may not achieve the target of being one of the top 20 sporting nations of the world by the year 2020 as planned by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
Is Coach Shuaibu Amodu going to be sacked for qualifying Nigeria for the World Cup despite all odds? More so this is the second time he has done that in the history of Nigeria's qualification for the world cup.
All is set for this year's Lagos State Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship sponsored by Chief Molade Okoya Thomas. The event will hold between Monday November 30 and Friday 4th December, 2009 at the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Centre, Rowe Park, Yaba Lagos.
Former World and Olympic champion in the women's 5000m and IAAF Athlete of the year in 2007,Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and president of World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), Bruno Gozzelino arrived Nigeria Tuesday evening for this weekend's fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships.
The Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission Sani Ndanusa said yesterday that he is ready to answer to his actions and decisions in the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
Claims by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that globacom Limited, the official sponsor of the national teams of Nigeria, has defaulted in the payment of the sponsorship fee for 2009, have been rejected by the telephony company.
The Lagos State Principal's Cup football competition will come on stream this year with enhanced incentives for the victorious school that will go home with the cash prize of N1 million. The tournament is to be sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank. In the past, the tournament was the major platform in the sporting calendar of the state that illustrious ex-Nigerian international players like Adokiye ...
THE genius that is former England and Arsenal striker Ian Wright had us rolling in the aisles the other day when he gave in to the compelling urge to add his bit to the raging debate surrounding the Thierry Henry handball incident.
DANNY Jordaan -- CEO of the 2010 Soccer World Cup local organising committee -- yesterday expressed his displeasure at reports the British government had warned fans to be on the alert for hijackers when they arrive in SA for the soccer showpiece next June.
THE Blue Bulls Rugby Union has developed a master plan to advance to even greater heights in the future by forming a development dream team, which includes both its Super 14-winning coaches.
KAIZER Chiefs coach Vladimir Vermezovic warned yesterday that holders SuperSport United could edge closer to yet another domestic premiership title if Amakhosi did not stop the leaders in their tracks at Loftus tonight.
FORMER world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is set to challenge South African Francois "White Buffalo" Botha for the World Boxing Federation heavyweight belt at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala on January 16.
WITH three days before the start of the Orange Senior Challenge Cup, regional soccer body CECAFA came under attack from Kenya Football Federation over involving rival Football Kenya Limited in the organisation of the event.
NAKIVUBO war Memorial stadium is struggling to pay off a sh315m debt in a bid to restore electricity and water supply to the oldest sports facility in the country.
JUSTICE Vincent Zehukirize yesterday overruled a preliminary objection by soccer governing body FUFA about city lawyer Fred Muwema representing Express F.C in a case against them.
KYAMBOGO Warriors coach Gad Eteu will demand more passion from his team when they take on D'Mark Power in Game 2 of the MTN-FUBA men's division 1 playoff finals tonight.
GOLF will next season return to Mbale after nearly a decade.
THE national U-19 girls' cricket team started on a good note, winning their first two games on Sunday and Monday to stay in line for the ICC Africa regional trophy in Tanzania.
Sports Minister/Chairman National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, said yesterday that he was ready to offer himself for probe for his activities during the just ended FIFA Under-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Ndanus, has expressed fears that if nothing was done fast to reposition the Olympic Sports in the country Nigeria may not achieve the target of being one of the top 20 sporting nations of the world by the year 2020 even as he disclosed that the revised national sports policy as endorsed by the National Council on Sports was ...
Nwabufo Obienu doubled as vice chairman of then Nigeria Football Association and coordinator of the Eagles during the qualification for 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.
IN a dire need to revamp the grooming ground for the country's football talents which generated so much passion in the past, the Lagos State Government has partnered the Guaranty Trust (GT) Bank to bring back the glory days of the Lagos Principals Cup soccer championship.
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