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Players of Zimbabwe’s senior men’s national team, Warriors, are threatening to boycott training Thursday’s over unpaid allowances. The team is in Rwanda where they are preparing for their second Group C match of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Nigeria‘s Super Eagles at Huye Stadium in Butare on Sunday. In their first game on Wednesday,…
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Super Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has won both October Player of the Month awards in the Saudi Arabia women’s Premier League. Plumptre beat two other nominees to land the individual award. She polled 53.5 per cent to finish first, the runner-up got 40.8 per cent while the third-placed player had 5.7 per cent. Plumptre being…
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Gunmen who reportedly kidnapped an Assistant Manager with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lafia branch in Nasarawa, Isaac Bature Gbaja, are demanding N10 million as ransom. According to reports, Gbaja was abducted on Monday, 13 November 2023 alongside two other unidentified persons. It was gathered that he was abducted alongside the other victims around…
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Young Nigerian midfielder, Victor Gidado, has set his eyes on being a talent of global reckoning and following the footsteps of his role model Toni Kroos of Real Madrid and Germany who has been a huge influence on his style of play. In this exclusive interview with The Guardian’s Oluyemi Ogunseyin, Gidado who is managed…
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Retired Nigerian international, Etim Esin has urged whoever starts in place of Napoli striker, Victor Osimhen to prove his worth in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe. Osimhen will not feature in the two World Cup qualification encounters due to the hamstring injury he picked up in Nigeria’s international friendly game against…
