Not many Nigerians would probably be able to locate Finland on the world map but for several of Nigeria’s top stars, the European country has turned the latest place to further their careers, writes ’TANA AIYEJINA In the mid-1980s, former Nigeria captain Stephen Keshi spearheaded a mass exodus of Nigeri...
Manchester United won the FA Cup with a 2-1 extra-time victory over Crystal Palace thanks to Jesse Lingard’s extra-time winner at Wembley on Saturday. The victory, United’s first Cup triumph since 2004, draws them level with Arsenal as the most successful sides in the competition with 12 wins. It was a...
Factional leader of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ambassador Chris Giwa, has had a hellish weekend as he was interrogated by the police on Friday shortly after his club Giwa FC was expelled from the Nigeria Professional Football League by the League Management Company (LMC) for its failure to p...
The BET Awards nominations was announced on Thursday, this Award honour artists, entertainers and athletes in more than 20 categories, as selected by BET’s voting academy—a group of entertainment professionals and fans. It’s been a banner year for Drake, whose new album,Views,debuted at No. 1 on the Bil...
Just two days after a vigilante group found one of the missing schoolgirls that had been kidnapped more than two years ago by the militant group Boko Haram from a government school in Chibok, Nigeria, a Nigerian military spokesman announced on May 19 that a second school girl had been rescued in a milit...
Retired boxing star Manny Pacquiao recorded a big political success Thursday with election into the Philippines senate. The boxing legend is a two-time Congressman and stepped it up on Thursday after he was declared among 12 new members of the country’s upper house of Congress, following a general elect...
