The Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, has hailed Nigeria’s senior national Basketball team, D’Tigers for their historic win of the AfroBasketball Competition beating African superpower Angola in the final.

Liverpool signed teenage Nigerian forward Taiwo Awoniyi on Monday and immediately sent him out on loan to German club FSV Frankfurt.

Drunken Feyenoord fans who rioted on Rome’s famous Piazza di Spagna in February will not be prosecuted for damaging a landmark 17th-century fountain, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday. Forty-four supporters of the Rotterdam club will, however, still face charges for fighting with Italian police ahead of a Europa League clash with home club AS Roma, said Jeichien de Graaf.

Kevin de Bruyne’s record transfer to Manchester City earned Wolfsburg a reported 79.8 million euros (£58 million, $89.3 million), but there are concerns here about the drain of Bundesliga talent to England. De Bruyne is just one of several German league stars tempted by Premier League cash before the closure of the transfer window in Germany on Monday.

Nigeria’s national male basketball team, D’Tigers, has finally won a first ever FIBA Afrobasket Championship on Sunday night, in Tunisia, after beat 10-time champions and arch-rivals, Angola 74-65.

PREMIER League star John Obi Mikel has fathered two secret love children with different women, reports The Sun on Sunday.

Nigeria’s last hope for a medal at the IAAF World Championships, which ended yesterday in Beijing, China, came crashing as the country’s 4x400m Women’s relay team gave their all but could only finish 5th in Sunday’s final.

As the Nigerian contingent to the forthcoming All Africa Games gets set to travel for the sporting fiesta, the Para-athletes and officials have promised to give the country quality representation in their various events.

The delegation of U-17 National Team, Golden Eaglets, departed for the Four-Nation Suwon Invitational Tournament on Sunday without team captain Kelechi Nwakali and coordinator Prince Udofia

The 2015 NNPC/Chevron Summer Tennis Clinic has ended at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan, with the sponsors thrilling the kids with tennis bags and sumptuous lunch.