The five candidates for the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award have been revealed on the BBC’s Newsday programme. Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure has made the shortlist for the fifth consecutive year and is joined by Nigerians Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi, Burkina Faso’s Jonathan Pitroipa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon. count […]

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has called for a review of policy on issuance of visas to Nigerian sportsmen and women. Dalung made the call on Tuesday in a protest letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, over the refusal of the U.K. and U.S. to issue transit visas to […]

Nigeria’s Super Eagles are settling in Durban for the Wednesday semi-final against the Eagles of Mali. The Super Eagles arrived on Monday for the match to be played at the Moses Mabhida Stadium and are getting used to the place and its people. The team did not train on Monday following a heavy downpour but […]

Kenneth Omeruo the Nigerian Super Eagles centre back is billed to join the English premier league side Chelsea for pre-season training ahead of next season. The defender has been on loan at Dutch club ADO Den Haag from Chelsea for more than a season. MTNFottball.com was informed by his representatives that he has begun processing […]

Lance Armstrong, former cycling’s most prolific icon and considered one of America’s greatest athletes, finally confessed to doping/cheating during all his seven tour de france title achievements.    After an entire decade of vehemently denying doping allegations, through substance mis-use and the use of oxygen-boosting blood transfusions, he finally came clean in an exclusive interview […]

Nigerians may not have the opportunity to watch the 2013 African Cup of Nations  televised live as negotiations between the Broadcasting organisation of Nigeria and JCM-African Sports Consulting hit a brick wall. BON accused the agent of Confederation of Africa of conspiracy during the negotiations for the rights to televise the tournament live. […]

Rafael Nadal coped with an on-court intruder and the Paris rain to beat fellow Spaniard David Ferrer and win a record eighth French Open title. Nadal, 27, came through 6-3 6-2 6-3 to reaffirm his dominance on clay, and further elevate himself among the greats of the sport. “I’m very happy, very emotional,” he said. […]