(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea have retained their place at the top of the Premier League thanks to a hat trick by Mason Mount and a resounding 7-0 win over 10-man Norwich City at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. The hosts were without first-choice strikers Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner, who both suffered injuries in Wednesday’s Champions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pope Francis has thanked Argentina football star Lionel Messi for sending him a Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) club jersey. “Lionel Messi, dear brother, thank you for the jersey and the dedication,” the pontiff said in a video published on Friday by Argentina’s Telam news agency. “Thank you for staying grounded. Stay like this. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea cruised to a 4-0 win over Malmo FF in the Champions League on Wednesday as strikers Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner were forced off through injury. Lukaku left the game at Stamford Bridge on 18 minutes with an ankle injury after he was brought down inside the box, while Werner limped […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC), Sola Aiyepeku, on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the usage of over-aged athletes for the just-concluded National Youth Games (NYG) in Ilorin. African Examiner reports that Team Lagos came second behind Team Delta for the second consecutive time. Team Lagos had 19 gold, 25 silver and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Antoine Griezmann scored twice but was sent off for Atletico Madrid as they fell to a 3-2 Champions’ League Group B defeat to Liverpool. Liverpool’s in-form attacker Mohamed Salah netted a double, including the winner from the penalty spot. Salah opened the scoring with a deflected effort in the eighth minute and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Bayern Munich FC defender, Lucas Hernandez, appeared before a Madrid court on Monday ahead of a potential six-month spell in prison, court officials have disclosed. Hernandez, 25, was due to appear Tuesday to inform the court where he would serve the sentence for violating a restraining order in 2017 while playing at Atletico […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – League leaders, Chelsea kept their grip on the top spot in the English Premier League (EPL) on Saturday by beating neighbours Brentford 1-0, thanks to a Ben Chilwell strike. But this was only after a string of last-gasp defending and saves by goalkeeper Edouard Mendy denied the hosts. Chilwell scored for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Villarreal forward, Arnaut Danjuma, says that although he loves Nigeria, the Netherlands is the team after his heart. It was rumoured that Danjuma was contemplating switching allegiance to the Super Eagles in the past. However, the former Bournemouth winger was given a late call up to the Dutch senior side by Louis […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Belgium must wait to confirm their place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after Wales maintained their chance of automatic qualification with a 1-0 win at Estonia on Monday. Kieffer Moore struck the only goal for Wales, who are third in Group E, five points behind Belgium. Belgium did not play […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Arsenal striker, Kevin Campbell has tasked Nigerian-born striker, Folarin Balogun, to leave the Gunners on loan. Campbell, speaking with Football Insider stated that Balogun needs a loan away from Arsenal to jumpstart his fledgling career. Campbell said: “He needs to learn his trade. Balogun needs to go out on loan and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Super Eagles of Nigeria made good their promise to bounce back from a shocking 1-0 loss to the Central African Republic, CAR by beating the Wild Beasts 2-0 on Sunday in Douala, Cameroon in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying match. Goals from Leon Balogun and Victor Osimhen ensured that they […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tyson Fury retained his WBC heavyweight crown on Saturday with a spectacular 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder as their trilogy fight delivered a boxing classic. In an epic battle in front of 15,820 fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, both fighters were knocked down on multiple occasions in a contest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tyson Fury vowed to knockout Deontay Wilder when the two meet for the third time on Saturday in Las Vegas with the Briton’s WBC heavyweight title on the line. The undefeated Fury (30-0-1), who battled Wilder (42-1-1) to a draw in 2018 before taking the belt from the American 20 months ago, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Brighton & Hove Albion created a slew of chances but failed to get many of them on target as they were held to a 0-0 draw by a rudderless Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. On a wet, blustery evening, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka got the game off to a promising start […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lionel Messi scored his first goal in a Paris Saint-Germain shirt as they beat visiting Manchester City 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday. After Idrissa Gueye put the hosts ahead in the eighth minute, PSG withstood ferocious City pressure before Messi sealed the victory, firing high into the net from a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Giandomenico Massari, Chairman, caretaker committee of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN) has confirmed that Nigeria had won the bid to host the 2022 Track Africa cycling championship in Abuja. Massari stated this in an interview that the global body, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and the African Cycling Confederation (CAC), had signed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anthony Joshua, fresh from being dethroned as world boxing heavyweight champions, is set to go to hospital to check a suspected broken eye socket. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, who announced this moments after the loss to Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine on Saturday in London, said also that his fighter was “devastated” by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anthony Joshua’s reign as world heavyweight champion ended in London on Saturday after he was defeated by Oleksandr Usyk. Oleksandr Usyk is crowned as the new unified world heavyweight champion after a unanimous decision win over Anthony Joshua with scores of 117-112, 116-112, 115-113. Usyk has become the third boxer after Evander […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has congratulated Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, for qualifying for the final of the 2021 Afrobasket women championship in Cameroon. African Examiner sports reports that D’Tigress defeated their Senegalese opponents 73-63 in Friday night’s semifinals to book a place in their third consecutive […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Allen Onyema, the President of Air Peace Airline, has compensated the Super Falcons past and present teams with the sum of ₦20 million. This is contained in a statement by Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Wednesday. It said that Onyema presented the cheques to the various […]
