Wilfred Ndidi put a smile back on Claudio Ranieri’s face as the Leicester midfielder’s first goal for the troubled champions inspired a 3-1 win over Derby in Wednesday’s FA Cup fourth round replay.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, announced restriction of vehicular movement in the major highways earmarked for the February 11 International Marathon scheduled to start by 6am at National Stadium, Surulere and terminate at the Eko Atlantic City.

With a terrific display at FIBA Africa Champions Cup (ACC) last December in Cairo, Abubakar Usman reminded everyone how he is preparing to regain a place in the senior men’s national team, the D’Tigers.

FC Barcelona will appeal against the red card which will rule striker Luis Suarez out of the Copa del Rey final.

Brisbane Roar have produced one of the great shocks in Australian football history with a 2-0 win away to a Shanghai Shenhua side that included Carlos Tevez and Obafemi Martins. Tevez is reportedly the world’s highest paid player on around $600,000 per-week, while the Roar players and staff were having issues receiving payment as recently as August 2016.