Nigeria’s women’s football team, the Super Falcons beat Cape Verde 5-0 in the Women’s AFCON Qualifier on Thursday, November 30 at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Thursday. Uchenna Kanu and Esther Okoronkwo scored two goals each while Monday Gift got a goal in the emphatic win while Monday Gift got a goal as the Super Falcons recorded an emphatic win over the minnows. It did not take time before Kanu opened the scoring as she …
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Blessing Onu, the Chairperson of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the financial dispute between the Falcons and the Nigeria Football Federation, has ordered the football body to produce payment slips for players and officials of the women’s national team at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. She gave the order while quizzing the NFF president Ibrahim Gusau, who appeared before the committee on Thursday, August 24 in Abuja. Onu said documents of how the …
There was confusion at Zambia’s press conference after journalists were stopped from asking questions about an investigation into manager Bruce Mwape over se3ual assault allegation. Mwape is being investigated over the allegations, with the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) saying it had referred its probe to FIFA. According to the Guardian, an unnamed player on the team had claimed: ‘If [Mwape] wants to sleep with someone, you have to say yes. Normally, the coach sleeps with the players …
Actor Uche Maduagwu has taken to social media to slam actress Judy Austin- Edochie, the second wife of actor Yul Edochie. Judy incurred the wrath of some Nigerians after a video of her boasting about how God loves her and makes her win all her battles was shared on her husband’s verified Facebook page today May 7. Uche in a post shared on Instagram, stated that it was out of place for Judy to share such a video …
Team Nigeria has secured yet another gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rose Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha emerged as winners of the 4x100m Women’s relay race today August 7 The quartet set a new African Record of 42.10s to win what was Nigeria’s 11th gold medal in Birmingham and a historic Commonwealth Games medal. Watch a video of the race below.
? Former US women’s soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo has been arrested on charges of misdemeanor child abuse, resisting arrest and impaired driving. The Washington-born goalkeeper spent most of her career as the United States’ goalkeeper and represented her country between 2000 and 2016. The Winston-Salem Police Department in North Carolina said in a statement on Saturday, April 2 that officers arrested Hope Amelia Stevens also known as Hope Solo, on Thursday in the parking lot of a business center in …