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Nigeria’s senior team has suffered a setback ahead of its first match of the AFCON 2027 qualifiers later this month, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports. Nigeria will participate in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers by opening their campaign at home against Madagascar on the 25th, before traveling to meet Guinea-Bissau in Morocco four days later. Ahead of the match, coach Eric Chelle is sweating …

CALGARY – The Calgary Stampeders stay in the CFL playoff conversation, thanks to a long field goal from Rene Paredes, while the Ottawa Redblacks remain winless after Calgary’s 40-38 win over Ottawa on Saturday. Paredes kicked a 62-yard field goal, the longest of his career, with two seconds left to end a tug-of-war between two football teams desperate for different …

EDMONTON – Dozens of protesters chanted “no is no” and “intoxication is not consent” outside the Rogers Place arena ahead of the Edmonton Oilers’ first home game on Saturday, which featured the team’s controversial new forward, Alex Formenton. Protesters held signs with messages like “Believe Survivors” as fans arrived, renewing calls for the Oilers to cancel Formenton’s Sept. 9 signing. …

Five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team — Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, and Michael McLeod — were acquitted in July 2025 on sexual assault charges stemming from an encounter at a 2018 Hockey Canada party in London, Ontario. Since then, the NHL has reinstated all five, allowing them to play starting Dec. 1, …

Coventry City ended a 25-year wait for a Premier League win on Saturday after securing a dramatic 1-0 victory away to Nottingham Forest at the City Ground. The victory marked Coventry’s first Premier League triumph since April 2001, when they defeated Bradford City 2-1 before being relegated from the top flight at the end of that season. First points of …

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Rivers Hoopers captain Victor Koko has made a firm appeal to his teammates, insisting that the six-time Nigerian champions must redeem themselves and reclaim the Nigeria Premier Basketball League (NPBL) title at the upcoming 2026 Final Four on home soil. The season-ending round robin was originally scheduled for early this month but was rescheduled to September …

Nigeria’s women’s youth national team, Falconets, have been given a stern warning to beware of Colombia’s might in Sunday’s quarter-final match at the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Poland, Sports247 reports. READ ALSO: Aduku dares to Colombia, says: The Falconets have an extraordinary opportunity to write their names in gold Ahead of the start of the competition at …

Victor Osimhen was absent through injury when Mohamed Salah scored a hat-trick to inspire Trabzonspor to a 4-0 victory over Galatasaray in the Turkish Super Lig on Saturday. The highly anticipated clash had been billed as a meeting between two of Africa’s biggest attacking stars, but Osimhen was left out of Galatasaray’s squad as he continued his recovery from a …

The chant of “Kadijat, let’s go!” rented the air in one of the covered rooms of the Palace of the Ooni of Ife, Arole Oodua Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, when the first edition of the Ojaja Table Tennis Championship ended on Friday. The championship ended on a high note, with Ooni, a former national table tennis …

Nigeria senior team head coach Eric Chelle has made recent changes to the Nigeria senior team squad for the upcoming AFCON qualifiers in September, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. Nigeria will participate in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers by opening their campaign at home against Madagascar on the 25th, before traveling to meet Guinea-Bissau in Morocco four days later. Chelle’s roster was …