Owner of popular D’Rovans Hotel, which is now known as Walan Hotel in Ibadan, Francis Aiyegbeni, is dead. The boxing enthusiast was said to have breathed his last on Saturday afternoon at the Intensive Care Unitof the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan. According to reports, the Edo State-born former boxer was rushed to the hospital…
Leicester City have made history by becoming the champions of England by winning the Barclays Premier League. The Foxes were last season battling relegation by this time, but they broke all permutations to emerge the best team in England in the 2015/2016 season, which ends in two weeks’ time. Eden Hazard’s second goal for Chelsea…
Nigerian striker, Odion Ighalo, is going through difficult times at the moment and the reason is not far-fetched. The Watford goal poacher has lost his father, Paul Ighalo, to the cold hands of death. Ighalo announced the demise of his dad via his BBM on Monday, informing his close friends of the unfortunate incident. He…
The Cowbell Football Academy, CFA, on Saturday, welcomed the Indian International Language School, Ilupeju, Lagos, to a friendly match between its Under-10 and Under-15 teams respectively, at the Main Bowl of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. The 40-minute game was flagged off at 9:35am, with the CFA Under-10 side beating their Indian Counterpart with a…
Captain of the Nigeria professional football league side, Kano Pillars, Gambo Mohammed, has now been discharged from hospital. Aproko247 gathered that Mohammed was discharged by doctors at Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday. The skipper suffered a head injury in Sunday’s week 12 league game against Rivers United in Port…
Nigeria’s representative at this year’s CAF Champions League, Enyimba, say they will snatch a win, or at worst, a draw against Etoile Sportive du Sahel when they meet on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Tunisia and hope to chase the club out of the competition. One of the players of the Nigeria professional football league…
Current Spanish champions, Barcelona, were on Sunday night defeated in front of their over 70,000 fans by Valencia. The Catalan giants were beaten 2-1 by their visitors in the late Sunday La Liga match. Barcelona went two goals down in the first half, but Messi pulled one back for his team in the second stanza…
Draws for the semi-finals for this season’s UEFA Champions League have been made and the four surviving teams now know their opponents. At the draws held at the UEFA headquarters in Switzerland on Friday, Manchester City were paired with Real Madrid, while Atletico Madrid will fight Bayern Munich to book a place in the final…
It has been revealed that Chris Giwa and members of his board may be banned from football activities in the country for the recent actions. This was disclosed in a communiqué issued on Wednesday by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, after an extraordinary meeting held in Abuja. It was stated that Giwa and other would…
Defending champions of the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona, have been knocked out of this season’s competition. The Catalonians were chased out of the tourney by Atletico Madrid 1-0 on Wednesday night and leaving the competition 2-2 on aggregate through an away goal scored last Tuesday at Barcelona by Atletico. Antoine Griezmann scored twice, one in…