Two gold medals have been won in the cycling event at the on-going 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja, with Rivers and Bayelsa States picking the first position in the men and female categories yesterday. Rivers State’s Gladys Tombrapa picked...

Pandemonium broke out at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Abuja, venue of the table tennis event of the 2018 National Sports Festival, on Friday as Table Tennis legend Segun Toriola was disqualified from the men’s event...

Rukayat Ajiboye of Lagos on Friday in Abuja won the 45Kg category of the women’s para-power lifting competition to claim the gold medal at the ongoing 19th National Sports Festival. Loveth Abokin from Delta finished second to win the silver...

The disciplinary body of CONMEBOL has rejected Boca Juniors' call for River Plate to be disqualified based on the trouble that took place outside the Estadio Monumental on the day the Copa Libertadores final second leg was originally scheduled to be played. The next option for Boca...

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung has identified misplacement of priorities as the reason states are unable to host the National Sports Festival. Dalung stated this while answering reporters' questions on the sidelines of the Opening Ceremony...

The festival is in Cross River, not so! Cross River can't host it anymore, time is too short to seek another host this year, what next? Cross River will be ready in another six months. It's been two years, are...

The Lagos State Sports Commission under the leadership of Dr. Kweku Tandoh, has concluded the insurance policy for the four hundred and forty two athletes registered for the 2018 National Sports Festival and the accompanying officials, slated for the...

South American football administrators CONMEBOL said on Tuesday that the postponed Copa Libertadores final second leg between fierce local rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors would be played outside Argentina. Following a meeting with the two Argentine clubs’ presidents in...

Andres Iniesta and Lukas Podolski engaged in a mass brawl after their J-League side Vissel Kobe conceded a 104th-minute equaliser to the opposition goalkeeper. Shimizu S-Pulse goalkeeper Yuji Rokutan scored from a corner 14 minutes into added time to snatch...

The BBC has released the five-man shortlist for the 2018 BBC African Footballer of the Year award. Although it seems they have left some names out, the nominees are worth their pedigree. First on the list is Medhi Benatia from...