Some Nigerians did not know that before a compatriot ever became Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Pius Quist, a...

Friday Ekpo was one of the superstars of the Nigerian League in the second half of the 1980s. He won...

They came as Vipers of Benin, lifted the Challenge Cup in 1972 before a name change to Bendel Insurance. Nothing...

Eleven months after the Nigerian Civil War in 1970, Emmanuel Amuneke, was born to Eziobodo, Owerri parents. As the war...

Politics in Lagos veered off track in the last Presidential elections when a phantom group apparently representing parochial interests stormed...

They say you cannot be more catholic than the Pope. I am not a Roman Catholic so I may not...

Red Atlas Lions of Morocco won the Africa Nations Cup for the very first time in 1976. The Green Eagles...

She was born in Poland as Stanislawa Walasiewicz, After four months, her parents relocated to the United States and she...

Chief Moshood Abiola was not called Pillar of Sports in Africa for nothing. The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land was...

Outrage followed Nigeria's dismal performance at the Moscow '80 Olympic Games. Some officials were accused of sleeping with female athletes...

Theirs is a family of twins and national athletes. Siblings, Taiwo and Taiwo Ogunjobi, represented Nigeria in Athletics and Soccer...

Richard Ihetu made news in 1958 when he beat Pat McAteer in Birkinhead, United Kingdom to become British Empire Middle...

An experience too rough to forget. It was a USA '94 World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and Red...