The Taekwondo duo of Chika Chukwumerije and Isa Mohammed left the country yesterday for their Olympic training tour in South Korea, promising to do their best to win medals at the London 2012 Olympics.

The seriousness of the Senate Hearing on sports came to question Tuesday when the Senators started leaving the Hall one after another, leaving only three of them on duty when serious issues were raised.

Belgian coach Tom Saintfeit has been given a four-year contract as Nigeria’s technical director, officials announced Wednesday.

President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria must surpass its 1996 performance in the forth coming London Olympic Games.

A referee sent off five players in the dressing rooms after a post-match brawl at an English League Two (fourth tier) game between Bradford City and promotion-chasing Crawley Town.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp was left looking forward to a third FA Cup match at Wembley in five years after his side beat Bolton Wanderers 3-1 to set-up an all-London semi-final with Chelsea.

Supervising Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi yesterday got a standing ovation at the Senate Committee on Sports after volunteering to go and beg in the homes of aggrieved football administrators, who still have issues with the current board of the Nigeria Football Federation.

Monday, March 26, Senate conference room, venue of a two day public hearing on the Dwindling Fortunes of Nigerian Sports In General and Football in particular.

Kwara Football Academy Secondary School has emerged Shell Cup champions after beating National Foundation College, Ugheli 4-1 .

Schalke have activated the purchase clause in Chinedu Obasi’s loan contract from Hoffenheim, securing the attacker’s signature until 2015 for a reported sum of €5 million.

The 2012 Gulder 5-A-Side football championship has been fixed to kick off from April 27 in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

A British university student was on Tuesday jailed for 56 days for inciting racial hatred, after posting offensive comments on Twitter about the collapse of Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba.

Chelsea are willing to make Laurent Blanc the highest paid manager in English football after identifying the France coach as the frontrunner for the vacancy at Stamford Bridge, The Times reported Tuesday.

SENATE President David Mark yesterday said that if Nigeria must get it right again in sports, which he said has collapsed, the principle of federal character in the selection process for sportsmen and women and their coaches ‘must stop’.

AL-QAEDA fanatics are plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack on the London Olympics, an investigation has found.