(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 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Banyana Banyana of South Africa on Tuesday emerged champions of the maiden edition of the Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Tournament after defeating the Super Falcons of Nigeria 4-2 in the final game. The match, played at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos, saw the two top teams in women’s football on the African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Secretary-General of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Fatima Samoura has applauded the display of skills and the level of competition at the ongoing 2021 Aisha Buhari Cup in Lagos. The FIFA scribe gave commendation on Monday in Lagos after the match that saw the Black Queens of Ghana defeat the Indomitable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mauricio Pochettino says there are “no issues” with Lionel Messi after the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) superstar’s reaction to being substituted during Sunday’s 2-1 win over Ligue 1 rivals Lyon. Messi had a puzzled look on his face as he walked past PSG head coach Pochettino, after being replaced by full-back Achraf Hakimi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City crushed RB Leipzig 6-3 in a thrilling UEFA Champions League Group A game on Wednesday as Christopher Nkunku scored a hat-trick for the German side. It was a hugely entertaining match at the Etihad Stadium and Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola, will be happy with the three points for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two goals from Robert Lewandowski and one from Thomas Mueller propelled Bayern Munich to a 3-0 win at Barcelona in their opening Champions League game on Tuesday. It was indeed another brutal demonstration of the gulf in class between the two sides. Mueller gave Bayern the lead in the 34th minute of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Encomiums from some notable sports groups in Oyo State have continued to trail Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) on its promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League(NPFL). The groups showered the encomiums on the Oluyole Warriors in separate statements made available to newsmen in Ibadan. African Examiner reports that 3SC, on Saturday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Simon Ekpa, an athlete who represented Nigeria at the 2003 African Junior Athletics Championships, says he is no longer a Nigerian and he has vowed to return the medal he won for the country. Ekpa disclosed this in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying that leaders have failed the country. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges on Jan. 24 after the Chester Crown Court set a trial date on Friday, British media reported. The 27-year-old, who was denied bail last week after he was charged with four counts of rape and one count of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Super Eagles continued their 100 per cent record against Cape Verde in their second match of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday. The Nigerian team won the game 2-1 after staging a comeback. While Victor Osimhen scored Nigeria’s first goal in the 28th minute, the Super Eagles got their second […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Brazil and Argentina in Sao Paulo on Sunday was suspended due to a breach of Brazilian coronavirus restriction rules. In extraordinary scenes, health officials entered the pitch early in the game to object the participation of three Argentinian players who have allegedly broken the coronavirus […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday has stated that he could not contain his excitement in the match between the Super Eagles and Liberia. It could be recalled that the Super Eagles defeated the Lone Stars on Friday in a 2022 World Cup Qualifier after Leicester City forward, Kelechi Iheanacho, scored two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Super Eagles of Nigeria got their World Cup qualifier for Qatar 2022 campaign on a good start courtesy of in-form Leister City forward Kelechi Iheanacho’s brace in the first half of the game. The Day 1 Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifier played in a near-empty Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere, Lagos, had […]
