Iwobi Tear Net Five Times For Arsenal As Dem Waya Brentford (Pidgin)

Alex Iwobi of Naija U23 team tear net 5 times as Arsenal waya Brentford 6-kondo for padi padi match wey shele for Emirate stadium yesterday.

FIFA Presido Blatter: Bulbwa Goal Na Best Wey I Don See For My Life (Pidgin)

FIFA oga presido, Sepp Blatter don dey find anoda way wey hin go use chop presido of FIFA again as per say elections go soon reach and na Flying Eagles player wey score best goal for 2015 AYC for final, Bernard Bulbwa hin wan use toast Naija pipu.

TEAR RUBBER: Keshi Yarn NFF: I No Be Slave, I No Go Sign Una Contract! (Pidgin)

Oga Stephen Keshi wey be befor befor Coachie for Super Eagles of Naija don yarn all man dis early mormor say hin no go sign de new contract wey NFF carry dash am sake of say hin no be slave.

NPFL Week 4 Fixtures Suspended By LMC

The set of matches for the 4^th week of footballing actions of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) 2014/2015 season have been suspended by the League Management Company (LMC).

Siasia Invites Five Flying Eagles Players

The coach of the Nigeria U-23 men’s football team, Samson Siasia, has called up five new players. They are from the victorious U-20 African Youth Championship team that played in Senegal. The Flying Eagles won the African cup.

Ahmed Musa To Wear Captain Armband Against Bafana

Gidi Sportlight can confirm that CSKA Moscow winger, Ahmed Musa will captain the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Sunday's international friendly match against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa.

D’Tigers Qualify For AAG, Afrobasket

Nigeria became the 13th national team to qualify for AfroBasket 2015 following a 63-50 second-leg win over Burkina Faso on Wednesday at the National Stadium in Lagos, FIBA.com reports.

Futball Galore Honours Matilda, Adama

Rivers Angels team manager, Mrs Matilda Otuene-Onyiloha was on Tuesday evening given an award by Futball Galore for her outstanding contribution towards the development of women football in Nigeria.

Customer Experience - Is Nigerian Basketball That Sophisticated?

Written by BBall Naija

There is an African saying that if the knife is thrown up a thousand times, the handle will always hit the ground first. We cannot do things the same way over and over again and expect different results. I am beginning to think that this is one of our major problems in Nigeria sports.

NFF Unhappy With Eagles

The Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday night held showdown talks with the players at a meeting held after Nigeria’s loss to Uganda in an international friendly at the Uyo International Stadium.

Apparently, the Super Eagles 1-0 loss to Uganda didn't sit down with the hierarchy and a meeting was held at the Le Meridian abode of the Super Eagles to iron out the issues as Nigeria’s fortunes at senior level continue to dwindle.

Elderson Salutes Centurion Enyeama

Elderson Echiejile has saluted Eagles goalkeeper and skipper Vincent Enyeama over his 100th international cap for Nigeria.

NPFL: Abia Warriors & Dolphins Go Wear One Trouser (Pidgin)

Abia Warriors go follow Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt knack head today for inside Umuahia by 6pm for match wey dem no gree play for when dem suppose play am becos say Dolphins go do dem different gbege wey dem get for CAF Confed Cup.

Rivers Angels Crowned As NWFL Champions

A first half penalty strike from Ebere Ngozi ensured that Rivers Angels defeated Confluence Queens 1-0 in an exhibition match played at the FIFA Goal Project Technical Centre in Abuja on Tuesday.

Afrobasket/AAG Qualifier: D'Tigers To Face Burkina Faso Today In 2nd Leg Qualifier Match

Nigeria national Basketball team, D'Tigers will face the national basketball team of Burkina Faso in the 2nd leg of the Afrobasket and All Africa Games qualifier match on Wednesday by 6pm at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

Keshi Agrees To Continue As Super Eagles Coach

Coach Stephen Keshi, according to reports, has accepted terms on the contract handed to him by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and will return as coach of the senior national team of Nigeria.

DSTV BasketBall Premier League Week 1 Results

‪#‎DStvBBPL Week 1 Results:

Atlantic Conference-

Confluence Queens Tackle Rivers Angels In Exhibition Match

The Nigeria Women League Congress for the 2015 season billed for Tuesday 25th March will witness an exhibition match between League champions Rivers Angels and Confluence Queens.

NPFL Week 3 Results And League Table

Saturday, 21.03.2015 - Week 3. Matchday 1 16:00 h Sharks FC  1 - 0  Akwa United FC 16:00 h Wikki Tourists  1 - 1  Kwara United

OFFICIAL: Pelican Stars Pulls Out Of Champion Of Champions Challenge

Pelican Stars have pulled out of the 2013/14 Nigeria Women Premier League Champion Of Champions Challenge against Rivers Angels.

NPFL: Week 3 Preview. Enyimba Seeks First League Win, Taraba To Continue 100% Record

The previous match day produced two away wins in Ibadan and Uyo. Already 34 goals have been scored in 18 matches so far in this season's Glo Premier League. Interestingly FC Taraba and Rangers have accounted for the highest number of goals scored by any team in the top flight this term, being four goals each.

Chioma Wogu Targets Success With Super Falcons

Confluence Queens attacker Chioma wogu has revealed her target to help the Super Falcons of Nigeria get a convincing result this weekend in Bamako.

King Osanga Joins Enyimba

Former Golden Eaglet and Flying Eagles player, King Osanga, joins the Federation Cup holders, Enyimba International FC for the rest of the present Nigeria Professional Football season.

Nine NPFL Clubs Get Big Pay-Out From LMC

Guidelines for the implementation of fan engagement to grow attendance at Glo Premier League matches have been released by the League Management Company (LMC) even as clubs have began to receive their financial rewards instituted to inspire healthy competition and expand the fan base.

Chairman of the LMC, Mr. Shehu Dikko, while congratulating the nine clubs that have so far been rewarded through the initiative, also thanked fans, supporters and Club officials for the massive boost to the efforts of the LMC to drive followership of the league.

Uganda Name Squad To Face Super Eagles

Coach Micho Sredojevic has named his 25-man team that will face Nigeria in an international friendly billed for the Akwa Ibom International Stadium on Wednesday, March 25.

Dolphins To Return To Nigeria Twice

A release from the management of Dolphins of Port Harcourt has indicated that Members of the Dolphins FC team will return to Lagos in two batches after the Confederation of African Football, CAF ratified their disqualification from the Confederation Cup.

Draw For AfroBasket 2015 Set For April 4

ABIDJAN (AfroBasket 2015) - FIBA Africa have announced that the official draw for AfroBasket 2015 will take place on Saturday 4 April at the Carthage Acropolium in Tunisia's capital city of Tunis.

Basketball: D’Tigers Blowout Kenya 83-52

The Nigeria D’Tigers defeated Kenya in a blowout win on Thursday evening 83-52 in Johannesburg at the Four Nations Challenge hosted by South Africa.

Afrobasket/AAG Qualifiers: Nigeria Humble Burkina Faso In Ouagadougou

Nigeria senior national Basketball team, D'Tigers proved on Monday night in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso that it's a force to reckon with when it come to Africa basketball when it humbled host Burkina Faso by 87-64 points in the first leg of the 29th Afrobasket and 11th All Africa Games.

Basketball: DSTV Premier League Week 1 Fixtures

Week 1 Fixtures

Friday, 20th March, 2015

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE GAMES

Allardyce Linked To Eagles Job

West Ham United gaffer, Sam Allardyce is strongly linked to Nigeria to take over as coach of the Super Eagles according to the Sun.

Senegal To Face Nigeria In AYC Final

Senegal will meet Nigeria in the final of the 2015 Africa Youth Championship (AYC) after they beat Mali 2-1 to win the second semifinal on Thursday.

Bolus Named Giwa FC Head Coach

Glo Premier League side Giwa FC have named FC Sarduana coach Tony Bolus as head coach for the ongoing 2014/15 league season.

Kogi United Hosts Ekiti United In Friendly

As part of their preparation for the new Nigeria National League League season, Kogi United will engage Ekiti United in a friendly match on Wednesday.

Bolivia Withdraw From Friendly With Super Eagles

Bolivia FA have decided to pull out of the international friendly match with the Super Eagles of Nigeria slated for March 26, 2015 according to Bolivian media.

Christian Obiozor TERMINATES Contract With Kano Pillars

Nigeria national teamer Christian Obiozor has mutually terminated his contract with Kano Pillars.

Nasarawa United Dragged To Court

Nigeria Professional Football League [NPFL] club, Nasarawa United, have been battling with a court suit instituted by one of their ex-players, Onyenuchi Maurice in the past three months.

Super Eagles List: Ideye, Ujah Return, Emenike Dropped As Enyeama Is Set For Centenary

The Super Eagles stand in coach, Daniel Amokachi has picked 27 players for the Super Eagles’ two friendly matches against Bolivia and South Africa on March 26 and 29 respectively.

CAF Confed Cup: FIFA, CAF Call For Dolphins Probe, Team Stranded In Tunisia

The Nigeria Football Federation has been called to probe what has “become a great embarrassment to the game in Nigeria, one that has been reoccurring and must be arrested even as at Monday, the Nigerians were still stranded in Tunisia.

Nigerian Legend Willy Bazuaye Is Dead

Former Golden Eaglets coach, Willy Bazuaye, passed away on Monday morning at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital in Benin City.

Dolphins Cry Foul: Walkover At Tunisia Was Planned

Dolphins have stated that the walkover against them by Tunisia’s Club Africain in a CAF Confederation Cup first round, first leg on Saturday was staged managed by their hosts.

CAF Champions League: Enyimba 1-0 Smouha | Match Report

CAF Champions League

Result: Enyimba 1-0 Smouha

Date: 15 March 2015

Substitute Rafael Boumsong scored in the second half as Enyimba International recorded a slim 1-0 win against Smouha FC in a first leg CAF Champions League first round match in Aba on Sunday.

Flying Eagles Face Ghana In AYC Semi Final

Nigeria's U20 male football team, the Flying Eagles will have a third time within weeks to define their supremacy over Ghana's U20 when both countries meet in the Africa Youth Championship (AYC) semifinal on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at the Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium in Dakar.

#NPFL: Kwara United 2-1 El Kanemi | Match Report

It was a very interesting encounter at the Kwara State Stadium that saw the Harmony Warriors humble the Warriors from Maiduguri 2 goals to a consolatory one.

CAFCC: Wolves 2-0 Dedebit | Match Report

Etebo, Salami Hand Wolves Victory

Warri Wolves coasted to a 2-0 victory over Dedebit FC of Ethiopia in a CAF Confederation Cup first leg match on Saturday.

Super Falcons Set To Play Confluence Queens

The Female National Team of Nigeria, Super Falcons, are set to slug it out with Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) side, Confluence Queens of Lokoja as preparatory for the All Africa Games Qualifier against Mali.

The match is slated for the 14^th of March, and it will be the third friendly match for Falcons as test matches towards upcoming qualifier matches.

The venue for the match is the FIFA Goal Project center at the Abuja National Stadium and will kick off by 3pm on Saturday, 14 March 2015..

Nigeria Move Up One Spot In FIFA Rankings

The National Team of Nigeria, Super Eagles, have hopped up to 41^st in the latest FIFA World rankings that were released on Thursday.

Amongst all negatives about the team surrounding the contract talks of Keshi versus Amaju Pinnick, Nigerians can finally get a positive news on the Super Eagles that polled 701 points to move up one place from 42 to 41 in the world and they are 7^th in Africa according to the rankings.

Nigeria is set to play Bolivia and South Africa later on this month and winning those matches might see the Super Eagles move higher on the FIFA rankings.

Algeria are the highest ranked team in Africa at 18^th. Other countries above Nigeria are Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal and Cape Verde.

Sand Eagles Qualify For African Beach Soccer Championship

Nigeria has qualified for the 2015 African Beach Soccer Championship finals after Libya announced its withdrawal from the qualifying competition.

Libya’s withdrawal has been communicated to the Nigeria Football Federation, meaning the 2007 and 2009 champions go through to the finals scheduled for Seychelles April 14-19.

The Supersand Eagles returned to the country on Monday following a third place finish at the Power Horse Invitational Tournament in Durban, South Africa, and were set to continue training in Lagos ahead of the first leg of the qualifying fixture against Libya which was to be played this weekend.

Coach Audu Adamu Ejo said: “We would have loved to use the fixture against Libya as part of our preparation for the African Beach Soccer Championship. However, there is nothing we can do other than to now start our final camping for the championship proper.

   Credit: Rabark Bakare

Ujah Apologises For Goal Celebration

Cologne striker Anthony Ujah has been compelled to give a public apology to the club mascot after manhandling the goat during his goal celebrations in the side's 4-2 win over Eintracht Frankfurt.

 

Ujah, after putting his side 4-1 up, charged to the goat named Hennes and for the third time in three years tried to mount the poor goat by grabbing it by the horn.

 

After the game he took to Instagram to apologise to the club legend, as it appears it didn't take too lightly being manhandled.

 

This isn't the first time that Hennes has had a run in with Ujah, with the Nigerian striker taking the pair's "friendship" a little too far after scoring against Paderborn in 2013 and again after scoring against Hertha Berlin the following year.

 

Indeed, the former incident saw Ujah alarm Hennes to such an extent that he later felt compelled to visit his hairy little buddy in person at his stables with a peace offering of fresh carrots.

   Source

CAF Shifts Pillars, Tetouan Champions League Match By A Week.

The CAF Champions League match between Nigerian champions, Kano Pillars and Moghreb Tetouan of Morocco has been shifted by a week the Confederation African Football (CAF) has stated. 

The round of 32 first leg billed for Morocco will now hold a week after the original date, March 14, 2015. The decision by CAF to shift the date of the match by a week was consented to by the Moroccan Football Federation and Moghreb Tetouan. 

The Nigerian champions, Kano Pillars were to start their title defense in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) in Owerri against Heartland FC but were attacked in their road trip to Owerri by armed robbers near Lokoja. Five players, Gambo Muhammed, Eneji Otekpa, Adamu Murtala, Reuben Ogbonnaya and Ubong Ekpai sustained various degree of injury after the incident.

The Nigerian champions announced through its Twitter account late on Monday night that CAF has informed them that their Champions League match against Moroccan club, Moghreb Tetouan has been shifted by a week. 

The tweet read: "CAF committee has postponed our first leg match against MA Tetouan of Morocco by one week".

“The March 14th game is now scheduled to be played on 20, 21 or 22 of March. The match has been postponed due to the attack on the team."

   Source

Support Nigerian Basketball: An Inspirational Story

I’d planned to start the day with something different but this article on Bleacher Report just won my heart over.

So this 16 year old boy wrote to all 30 teams on the NBA telling them he wants a team he can root for in the league and asking each club to give him reasons why he should choose them. In each of the letter, he mentioned a few things about the club and drew the club logo at the bottom of the letter. Read Here

Sadly, only one team replied – Minnesota Timberwolves – and they gave him 10 reasons why he should choose them, together with an autographed ball. As expected, Minnesota Timberwolves got another die-hard fan.

Three words - THIS IS SWEET!!!

The things I find impressive are:

1. The amount of knowledge the boy has about all the teams in the NBA.

2. The love people have for basketball. The young man is a basketball die-hard fan at 16. He surely didn’t get there overnight.

3. The importance that some clubs attach to fan base and fan management.

This is where I hope we will be in the future. I hope the Nigerian clubs share this big dream of mine.

Written by @BBallNaija

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We have lots of people with the love for Basketball in Nigeria but they have no means to feed their passion. Not enough websites/blogs updating the fans on basketball (even on other sports besides football). That's just one, I know you know the rest.

The sports governing bodies in the country spend too much time and money on football, which is not an issue since Nigeria was colonized by Britain and their number one sport is Football which makes it ours too (or so I think).

Basketball was invented in America. Nigerians and Nigeria will (by all means) love to be like the number one nation in the world. Our entertainment industry and politics have their signature all over them.

America is one of the world power even at our beloved football. So why do we reject their sports (Yes, SPORTS. Most Nigerians do not like American Football and Baseball also)

Well, back to basketball. Nigerians are built to play the hoops sports. We have lots of Nigerians plying their trade in the NBA and many have climbed the ladder to the apex. Akeem Olajuwon is one of the greatest Basketball player of all time. We also have Jamal Olasewere. Just to mention a minute few.

According to Wikipedia, Nigeria has produced the most NBA players of any African nation with 13 players. Check out the list here.

Nigerians, let's increase our chances of winning medals at the Olympics. Let's increase our chances of winning trophies at the continental and world level. We'll also make the whole world take the country more serious in the world of sports.

Our national basketball team, D'Tigers, are doing a great job. Nigeria is ranked 24th in the present FIBA World ranking. Imagine if Nigeria Basketball can have half the follower-ship our football has (meanwhile, we are ranked 42nd in the FIFA World ranking). Do the math! We are better off loving basketball more.

Pick a basketball team in Nigeria to support today.


SAVANNAH CONFERENCE

• Mark Mentors (Abuja)
• Bauchi Nets B.C.(Bauchi)
• Kano Pillars (basketball)(Kano)
• Immigrations (Minna)
• Plateau Peaks (Jos)
• Gombe Bulls (Gombe)
• FCT Rocks (Abuja)
• Kada Stars (Kaduna)

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE

• Oluyole Warriors (Ibadan)
• Dodan Warriors (Lagos)
• Delta Force (Delta)
• Lagos Islanders (Lagos)
• Nigeria Customs (Lagos)
• Union Bank Basketball Club
• Police Baton (Lagos)
• Kwara Falcons (Kwara)