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Manchester United chiefs have cut Paul Pogba’s valuation by £30million and are ready to sell the player in the summer, the UK Sun reports. United turned down offers for Pogba last summer, as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looked to build his team around the midfielder. However, with Bruno Fernandes’ arrival and …

Samson Siasia said he needs the support of all Nigerians to raise a sum of £250,000. The erstwhile Super Eagles coach said he came out to beg Nigerians for financial assistance because he could not get the money from people he had contacted privately. Speaking on NTA’s Sports Parliament on …

Plateau United are back to the top of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) after edging close rivals, Rivers United 1-0 yesterday in the Match-day 18 clash in Jos. The climb to the top is also a fallout of defeats to Lobi Stars and Sunshine Stars and failure of Akwa …

  Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has said that the importance of grassroots sports development cannot be over emphasised. He said this while speaking to newsmen at the grand finale of the Kwara State Sports Festival on Saturday. He added that the resuscitation of the sports …

Patrick Mahomes produced a staggering fourth-quarter performance to guide Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in 50 years as they came from 10 points behind to stun the San Francisco 49ers in Miami. Quarterback Mahomes, 24, had endured a difficult evening under the pounding pressure of the …

7 other people were on board the ill-fated helicopter that crashed and killed American basketball player, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna yesterday, January 26th. Names and photos of victims of the crash has now been confirmed. See below… Kobe Bryant Gianna Bryant John Altobelli- Father of Alyssa Keri Altobelli- …

THE Ghana FA says it took the decision to remove all of its national team coaches with the Black Stars’ fixture schedule in mind. Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) says it removed all its national team coaches, at all levels of the game, “in line with the vision” of the GFA’s …

 Erstwhile African Player of the Year (APOTY), Nwankwo Kanu, is emphatic that the next player in line to be crowned as the African soccer king is nobody else than Senegalese Saido Mane. Kanu who is one of the only four Nigerians to have been crowned APOTY in the past, has …

Nigeria will continue their quest to qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations when it takes on Lesotho tomorrow evening at the Setsoto Stadium in Maseru, the Lesotho capital. Nigeria came from behind to defeat Benin 2-1 on Wednesday in their opening qualifying match. Goals from Victor Osimhen and …

The national 3×3 teams departed Abuja Thursday for Kampala, Uganda aboard a Rwanda Air flight for the 2019 FIBA 3×3 Africa Cup. Kano Pillars duo of Godwin David and Lucky Subel alongside Agu Ibeh (Gombe Bulls) and Victor Koko (Rivers Hoopers) made the final men’s team released by the Team’s …