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Two captains stood out in Nigerian football just one year after the end of the Civil War. Godwin Achebe and...

Football made a lot of difference during the Nigerian Civil War. While Biafra had no active national team, some names...

This is not Greek History, we are discussing Nigerian football, which drew quite some historical names between 1973 and 1986....

Cows deserve more than passing comments in the Nigerian narrative. Professor John Peeper Clark realized this early enough and penned...

General Yakubu Gowon was a good boxer during his cadet days in Anzio Company, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, United Kingdom...

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

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...

We cannot forget so easily the duo of Emmanuel and Patrick Okala, brothers, the first Nigerians to bring African Nations...