Category: Sports

Former Senegal midfielder Papa Bouba Diop has died at the age of 42 after a long illness, local media and the West African state’s football federation said on Sunday.  Diop is best known in his native country for scoring the winning goal against then defending champions France in the group stages of the 2002 World […]

Football legend, Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at 60. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home. He had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency. Maradona was captain […]

Former Nigerian boxer, Jeremiah Okorodudu, has praised the effort of sports ministry officials and some ex-boxers, who came to his rescue after undergoing a major operation in a Lagos hospital. He was discharged on Wednesday morning after more than two months of battling with the ailment. Okorodudu, a member of Nigeria’s contingent to Los Angeles […]

Ex-Olympic boxer needs financial assistance after a major operation Nigeria’s ex-boxer and member of Los Angeles ’84 Olympic Games team, Jeremiah Okorodudu, is in need of financial assistance after undergoing a major operation in a Lagos hospital. Okorodudu, who rose to prominence as one of the country’s most celebrated boxers in the 1980s, is said […]

The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by next year, the organising committee’s president warned, ruling out further delays. The comments, in an interview with a Japanese sports daily published Tuesday, come as medical experts doubted whether the pandemic can be sufficiently contained by […]

Olympic chiefs on Tuesday postponed the 2020 Tokyo Games until next year, a historic move to push back the world’s biggest sporting event due to the coronavirus pandemic that is upending global society. The dramatic step is the first time the Olympics has been postponed in peacetime and comes as a devastating blow to the […]

The Federal Government has no plan to postpone the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival, which is expected to begin this month, Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has said. Debunking the rumour that the Edo 2020 would be postponed due to the fear of the spread of Coronavirous, Dare, who spoke through the ministry’s […]

US basketball legend, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna are among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California on Sunday. Bryant, 41, was travelling in a private helicopter when it came down and burst into flames. The LA county sheriff said there were no survivors. Early reports had suggested […]