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Nigeria will be paid a sum of $12.5 million about N4.5 billion by FIFA for qualifying for Russia 2018 with $2.5 million of this amount paid for the Eagles to prepare adequately for the football World Cup. They will earn more cash should they reach the knockout rounds of the...

Nigeria moved up to the 41st position in the World and retained the fifth in Africa in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings. The rankings released by the World Football governing body showed that Nigeria moved up three places from the 44th position in September, but maintained the fifth spot...

The Senate on Tuesday praised the nation’s male football team, Super Eagles, for being the first to qualify in the African continent for 2018 World Cup in Russia and thereby urged the Federal Government to ensure they are funded with the recovered looted funds to be able to perform well...

Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia and will begin chemotherapy immediately, the club said on Thursday. Abnormal blood tests were taken during the Championship club's pre-season training and further medical investigation has revealed the 31-year-old is suffering from leukaemia. "It would be an understatement to...

Real Madrid, Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo remained atop Forbes magazine's list of 100 highest-paid athletes, with Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James moving up to second on a list heavy on NBA players. The 32-year-old Portugal forward is estimated to have earned a total of $93 million between his football salary...

As Nigeria is getting ready to tackle South Africa in the 2019 AFCON qualifier, the country has invited 23 players for the match taking place on June 10th, 2017 at Akwa Ibom, Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, at 5 pm Nigerian time: The invited players: Goalkeedpers Daniel Akpeyi Ikechukwu Ezenwa Dele...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed Wednesday that video assistant referees will be used at next year's World Cup in Russia for the first time. According to Yahoo Sport, Infantino said: "We will use video refereeing at the 2018 World Cup because we've had nothing but positive results so far," he...

Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has described as tragic and horrifying, the loss of several lives at a viewing centre in Calabar, the Cross River capital on Thursday. The governor said this in a statement issued by Christian Ita, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary...

Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar has been elected the president of the Confederation of African Football(CAF) in Addis Ababa on Thursday. Ahmad defeated Issa Hayatou who had been the president for an era spanning 29 years and a senior administrator at Fifa, Hayatou, a former teacher and sports minister from Cameroon...

Cameroun, the winner of the African Cup of Nations hosted in Gabon pocketed a sum of $4 million as prize money, which is a 64 per cent increase from a previous $1.5 million. The runners-up, Egypt also took home $2 million. This increase came after CAF signed an agreement with...