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Puma, the German sportswear manufacturing company, has pulled the plug on the 4-year kits sponsorship contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN). The contract was signed on July 24, 2019, in Doha by the AFN board under Ibrahim Gusau. ...

Aston Villa playmaker, Jack Grealish, is set to become the most expensive English footballer ever. Manchester City are close to finalizing a £100 million deal for the 25-year-old. It is believed the Premier League champions will seal the deal in ...

World Athletics Committee and the organizers of the ongoing Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, have been told to conduct a thorough check to ascertain the actually sex of Christine Mboma, a 200m athlete from Namibia. Mboma, 18, has hyperandrogenism, a condition ...

  Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has signed a new contract which will keep him at Anfield until 2027. The Brazilian becomes the latest Reds star to commit his long-term future to the club, following in the footsteps of Trent Alexander-Arnold and ...

Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has announced she will retire in the wake of her groundbreaking appearance at the Tokyo Olympics this week. The New Zealander on Monday contested the +87kg category weightlifting, in a debut the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

  Australian Andrew Hoy became the oldest medallist at the Olympics since 1968 when he took silver in the equestrian eventing team competition at the Tokyo Games on Monday. It was the 62-year-old’s fifth Olympic medal in total — three ...

Ese Brume has won the first medal for Nigeria at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She won bronze in women’s long jump. Germany’s Malaika Mihambo soared to gold in the women’s long jump, snatching victory from former champion Brittney Reese ...

Former Ajax footballer Jerge Hoefdraad has been shot in the head while trying to break up an argument at a party. Dutch outlet De Telegraaf report that Hoefdraad is in critical condition on Monday from the serious injuries that he ...

Laurel Hubbard’s groundbreaking Olympics debut didn’t quite go as planned. Hubbard, who made history as the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, was eliminated after failing to record a single lift in three attempts in Monday’s over-87-kilogram super-heavyweights. ...

Barcelona have banned captain, Lionel Messi, from participating in the club’s training. AS reports that Messi will not be training at Barcelona until he signs a new contract with the Camp Nou club. The Argentina captain has been a free ...

Nigeria’s Ese Brume has made it into the final of the women’s long jump event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Brume finished fourth in Group B with a 6.76m jump to take the final spot. Reigning World Indoor ...

Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics, abandoning his mixed doubles bronze medal match. He cited a left shoulder injury, moments after losing the singles bronze medal to Spaniard Pablo Carrena Busta. He has therefore gifted Australia’s Ashleigh Barty ...

Team Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru has been disqualified from Heat 5 of men’s 100m for a false start at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Meanwhile, Ese Itsekiri representing the country in the 100 metres at the Olympics qualified for the semi-final ...

  Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been suspended after failing a drugs test, just hours before the women’s 100m Olympic final. Okagbare had cruised to first place in her 100m preliminary race, and had been due to face off against ...

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus will pursue their European Super League dream, after winning in court on Friday. The three clubs refused to pull out of plans for the breakaway league in April, after nine clubs withdrew following public outrage. ...

Nigeria failed to qualify for the final after finishing last in the semi-final first heat of the 4×400 mixed relay at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The country was represented by Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ojeli, Imaobong Nse Uko, Samson Oghenewegba Nathaniel ...

Nigerian athletes staged a protest in Tokyo after 10 of them were disqualified from taking part in the the track and field events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.     The protesting athletes carried placards with the inscription “Why ...

Arsene Wenger has been linked with a return to management three years after leaving Arsenal. The former Gunners boss, 71, hasn’t officially retired and has left the door open to be back in the game. Since 2019, Wenger has been ...

Team Nigeria’s duo of Blessing Okagbare and Grace Nwokocha on Friday qualified for the semifinals of the women’s 100 metres event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Okagbare who is the reigning Nigerian record holder in both the 100m and 200m ...

Nigerian striker, Simy Nwankwo, could be playing next to Harry Kane at Tottenham Hotspur next season. According to The Telegraph, Tottenham are targeting Nwankwo as a possible partner for Kane. Tottenham’s new technical director, Fabio Paratici, is keen to add ...

Ten Nigerians athletes have been disqualified from the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics for not meeting up with the necessary requirement for the games. A statement issued by the Athletics Integrity Unit, an independent body created by World Athletics that manages ...

  Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister has been hospitalised with pneumonia due to complications in her fight against Covid. Katia Aveiro revealed she was in hospital in her native island of Madeira in an Instagram post. The 42-year-old singer is being treated ...

  Piers Morgan has questioned US gymnast Simone Biles’ sudden departure from the Olympics team competition citing mental health issues after she performed poorly in the opening round of the games. According to him, young people need a better role ...

  Manchester United have confirmed an agreement with Real Madrid for the signing of Raphael Varane. The 28-year-old centre-back will become Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s second major signing of the summer after the arrival of Jadon Sancho earlier in the month. ...

Christian Eriksen was spotted out and about with his girlfriend and their young daughter for the first time since being released from hospital following his cardiac arrest. The 29-year-old collapsed during Denmark’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on June 12 ...