Director General of the National Sports Commission(NSC) Gbenga Elegbeleye has denied that the National Sports Festival(NSF) was postponed because of political campaigns across the federation.

The League Management Company (LMC), on Thursday announced that Nigeria Professional League’s (NPFL) final match day is now Sunday, Nov. 16.

Ghana have vowed to compound the woes of under-fire Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi when both teams clash in an international friendly match at the newly-built Akwa Ibom stadium in Uyo.

Returnee Super Eagles and Villarreal striker Ikechukwu Uche is keen to make a goal scoring return to the Nigeria squad after he was recalled for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against Congo and South Africa.

Super Eagles captain, Chigozie Agbim has praised the quality of his colleagues as they gear up for the International friendly against Ghana’s Black Meteors on Friday at the Uyo International Stadium.

More than one year after the Sunday Dankaro house was inaugurated as the new Secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the football house says it was still awaiting the release of the fund promised by the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio to furnish and move into the new office.

Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has commended the government and people of Cross River State for the support shown to sports development in the country and accepting to host the 19th National Sports Festival tagged “Paradise Games – Calabar 2014.”

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has reposed confidence in the Management and Staff of Nigeria Football Federation, after a late morning meeting with the personnel on Wednesday.

Three Nigerian players will play in today’s quarterfinal ties of the ongoing Lagos International Squash Classics just as Egypt Air has promised to offer free ticket to winner of the raffle draw taking place during the tournament.

Ukraine’s tattered ceasefire came under new strain Wednesday as shelling killed two teenagers playing football in rebel-held Donetsk and President Petro Poroshenko said he was deploying reinforcements to face a threatened separatist offensive.