The 12 teams that made it to Morocco to battle their way to the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title have now been trimmed down to the final four at the end of week two. Africa’s premier women’s tournament has seen intense on-field action from the start, with hosts Morocco and rising force […]
The 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) has had a hard time being the spotlight football event of the season, partly due to the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the Women’s Euro running concurrently. It also doesn’t help that the tournament hasn’t seen the best broadcast coverage, with many within and outside the […]
For the better part of July 2025, the focus of football on the continent will mostly revolve around the rescheduled 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which is set to take centre stage in Morocco from July 5 to 26. It’s the 15th edition of African women’s football’s premier tournament, and just like in […]
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The decline in Africa’s representation in the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft didn’t get better with the class of 2025. From a solid representation of seven African draftees in 2023, there was a major dip to one in 2024, and it has now modestly rebounded to two in 2025. South Sudan’s Khaman Maluach and […]
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The FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) 2025 kicks off this Saturday, June 14, and runs until July 13, 2025. The international club football tournament, usually featuring the top seven teams from each continent, will expand to 32 sides this year. Originally announced in 2019 and scheduled to debut in China in 2021, the new format’s […]
Across the continent, there’s hardly any national football team that has attained the level of dominance the Super Falcons have achieved. Nigeria’s senior women’s national team holds a formidable legacy, having won nine of the 11 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) titles and reaching at least the semi-finals in every edition they’ve contested. […]
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Nigeria’s Flying Eagles wrapped up their 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) journey with a third-place finish and a ticket to the FIFA U-20 World Cup set for September in Chile. The team recorded a 1-0 win over Tunisia and drew against Morocco and Kenya in the group stage. These results pitted them […]
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The city of Ikenne has been more than alive since Sunday, April 27, 2025, after Remo Stars were confirmed as winners of the 2024/25 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL). On matchday 35 at their home stadium in Ikenne, the Sky Blue Stars sealed a 1-0 victory over Niger Tornadoes to clinch their first-ever league title […]
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As is the tradition, the WNBA Draft has always been a springboard for young and outstanding players across colleges and other professional teams to transition into the United States’ women’s professional basketball league. The 2025 edition was no different, only this time, seven African women were among those drafted at the Hudson Yards in New […]
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Gout Gout has barely started, but he’s already racing into the most defining chapters of the history book. The 17-year-old sprinter, on Sunday, April 14, clocked 19.84 seconds to win the men’s 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth. It was the second-fastest ever by an athlete under 20 surpassing legendary marks like […]
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Cricket has never truly broken into Nigeria’s mainstream sports. From its colonial-era introduction in the late 19th century to the present day, it has remained a fringe sport, far less visible and popular than football, basketball, tennis, or athletics. In truth, this isn’t exclusive to Nigeria. Across much of the globe, cricket takes a backseat […]
Hours after the euphoria of the Super Eagles’ 2-0 victory over Rwanda in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers faded on Friday, March 21, attention shifted to the match venue — Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali — where Victor Osimhen’s brace secured Nigeria’s first win on Rwandan soil in their fourth attempt. Osimhen’s brilliance, […]
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