Former Super Eagles goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has started a professional career in Brazilian jiu-jitsu years after his retirement from active football Soccernet.ng reports. Ikeme took over from Vincent Enyeama after the latter retired from the national team. The former Wolverhampton Wanderers man was great in between the sticks in his ten appearances for Nigeria. Unfortunately, his career was cut short. Ikeme had to retire from professional football at the age of 29 because of leukemia. Ikeme eventually won the battle against the disease, but he was unable to return to football. However, the 36-year-old fell in love with something else. The former Wolves man decided to go into martial arts. Ikeme revealed in an interview that he was always interested in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but he decided to try it out when he saw the advert for a taster session at a petrol station.  “I was just filling up my car at a petrol station near home and saw a sign for Gracie Barra, a Brazilian jiu...

Head coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso has drawn up a preliminary list of players who will make the final selection of the Nigeria U20 team for the U20 World Cup. The coach steered his team to the tournament with a third placed finish at the U20 Africa Cup of Nations. Ahead of the World Cup, he is planning on improving the team in key areas particularly in attack Bosso has already extended invitation to some players for the tournament, which presently has no host following the decision of FIFA to strip Indonesia off the hosting right of the tournament over a row on the participation of Israel. One of the players, who have been called up to beef up the attack of the team is Doma United forward Charles Chibuike popularly called Osimhen due to his striking resemblance to Napoli and Super Eagles star Victor Osimhen. Three days ago , the forward scored his fourth goal in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) with a bullet header to power his newly promoted side...

THE FORMER SUPER FALCONS COACH, BALA NIKYU STEPS DOWN AS NASARAWA UNITED COACH Technical Adviser of Nasarawa United FC, Bala Nikyu has parted company with the Club on mutual consent after three seasons at the helm for the Coach. The former Super Falcons Coach's exit from the Solid Miners followed the team's extremely poor results in the ongoing 2022/23 Nigeria Premier Football League Season, particularly the 1-2 home loss to El-Kanemi Warriors FC of Maiduguri on match-day twelve on Saturday, 1st April, 2023, at the New Jos Stadium. He thanked the Club and its wonderful supporters for the opportunity given to him to serve, describing Nasarawa United as a big and amazing club with so much to offer. The Management of Nasarawa United headed by Chief Barr. Isaac Danladi, has welcomed the decision of Coach Bala Nikyu to throw in the towel, and wished him the best in his future endeavour. Subsequently, the Management has confirmed that Head Coach, Abubakar Arikya will beco...

Guinea's Alleged U-23 Age Cheat: Why Is The NFF Dragging Their Heels Over Complaining To CAF Barely seventy two hours after the Guineans dumped Nigeria out of the AFCON u-23 qualification campaign, it appears their celebration party has to be on hold as they potentially have case to answer over age falsification of their midfielder Alseny Soumah. Conakry born midfielder Alseny, who scored his side's second goal against the Olympic Eagles has been drawn in an alleged controversial age discrepancies, having providing conflicticting age information in his dates of birth. According to information gathered by several media outlets, Alseny was listed as 22 and 24 year on different platforms including CAF website.  Going by certain findings as posted on Transfer markt website, the midfielder was born on May 16, 1998 (24 years), while the second posited that he was born on the 1st of January, 2001 (22 years). In line with the 23 years age limit for the tournament, the secon...

A 25-year-old Kwara state footballer, Baraye Bamidele Saoban, of Ibrafix Football Club, Ilorin and one Adaraloye Ezekiel, have been convicted for love scam offences by a Kwara state high court in Ilorin. Baraye, hails from Ilorin, while Ezekiel is a native of Osi, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. The duo were prosecuted on separate charges by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. They pleaded guilty to the charges in court, following which, counsel to the anti-graft agency, Rashidat Alao, led witnesses in evidence to review the facts of the cases. The witnesses, who narrated how actionable Intelligence led to the arrest of Baraye and Adaraloye, informed the court that the duo specialised in ‘yahoo-yahoo’ business. Among items recovered from the defendants at the point of arrest, were iPhones, incriminating messages printed from their devices and manager’s cheque raised as restitution, which were tendered and admitted by t...

Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was only a few meters from the finish line, but got confused with the signs and stopped, thinking he had finished the race. Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was only a few meters from the finish line, but got confused with the signs and stopped, thinking he had finished the race. A Spanish man, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was going on, started shouting to the Kenyan to keep running. Mutai did not know Spanish and did not understand. Realizing what was going on, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory. A reporter asked Ivan, "Why did you do this?" Ivan replied, "My dream is that one day we can have some sort of community life where we push ourselves and help each other win." The reporter insisted "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win. The race was his."  The reporter insisted and asked again, "But you could have won!" Ivan loo...

Meet the 44 year old Nigerian named Dozy (Dozie) Mmobuosi (pictured) an IGBO MAN, who is about to buy  Sheffield United Football Club, England for £90 million. He is into IT and one of his companies Tingo Mobile / Inc. is valued at over £6-Billion. He is married to Oluwatosin Mmobuosi, a Yoruba woman, and they both live in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, some of us are bantering in foolishness! Dozy Mmobuosi is a  distinguished technology entrepreneur and advocate for technological advancement and social upliftment in Africa and beyond. He is the Founder/CEO of two prominent US corporations, Tingo, Inc., Africa's leading Agri-Fintech company and Tingo International Holdings, Inc. BACHELOR Ambrose Alli University. MASTER Ambrose Alli University. DOCTORATE DEGREE Universiti Putra Malaysia. He also completed the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Chelsea Appoint Nigeria Sulaiman as U18 Coach Hassan Sulaiman who graduated with a first class from University of the Arts, London College of Communication, holds a UEFA A License, a coaching license that allows holders to be head coaches of youth teams up to age 18, reserve teams for top-flight clubs, and men's professional second-tier clubs. Sulaiman has held several roles at Chelsea and was the head coach of the U16s before his recent promotion to the U18s. Congratulations Hassan  Well deserved

Former teammates in Flying Eagles show support for Siasia at father's commendation service. Former Nigeria international and coach, Samson Siasia had the complements of his former teammates while holding a comforting prayers at Trem Church in Smyrna, at Atlanta Georgia in the US. It was at a solemn ocassion for the celebration of life for Siasia’s father. Pa Commander Harrison Siasia, who died at 96 years old. Siasia had some of his old teammates in attendance. Among them was Paul Okoku who featured for the 1983 class of the Flying Eagles as well as the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations’ squad of Nigeria. Also in attendant were Godwin Odiye, McMilan Ogbomo, patron of Enugu Rangers, Sir Benson Ejindu, Emeka Donnie Ikpa and Peter Nosegbe. Others include Nathaniel Ogedegbe and Chibuzor Ehilegbu who sent their condolences. Some of his 1983 set in the Flying Eagles; Femi Olukanni, one of the Olukanni brothers, Alphonsus Akhahon, Dehinde Akinlotan, Taju Disu, Chibuzor Ehilegbu, Ta...

'You need a godfather to play in Eagles' — Chinwo  Former Flying Eagles defender, Kennedy Chinwo has revealed that having a talent is not enough to play in the Super Eagles without having a strong godfather. He made this startling confession in an interview on Brila FM, where he also disclosed his love for coaching. “It is the dream of every player to play for the Super Eagles. However, playing in the senior national team won’t just come easy. You need a godfather to play in the Eagles. But if you don’t have, no matter your talent, you won’t be able to play. “A few of the players who I feel should have been in the Super Eagles despite their talent were not given a chance to play in the team.” Recall that Chinwo was part of Samson Siasia-led Flying Eagles team that narrowly lost the final of the FIFA U-20 World Cup to Lionel Messi’s led Argentina in 2005 in Netherlands..