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The Football Association has confirmed that West Ham defender, Arthur Masuaku will serve a mandatory six-game ban for spitting at an opponent. The Frenchman reacted to a challenge from Nick Powell in the Hammers' FA Cup loss to Wigan on…

President Buhari was seen watching Nigeria's Super Eagles match against Angola. Even with the tight schedules and back to back meetings in Addis Ababa, President Buhari found time to Follow the Quarter Finals match between Nigeria and…

Swiss tennis star and world No 2, Roger Federer has just won his sixth Australian Open title, including becoming the first man to win an astonishing 20 Grand Slam title. The 36-year-old defeated his opponent Croatia's Marin Cilic in…

Tennis Champ,  Serena Williams will return to action next month in the United States' Fed Cup first round tie against the Netherlands. Williams who has not played a WTA tournament since she won the Australian Open title last year and…

Cleveland Cavaliers star, LeBron James has surpassed Kobe Bryant to become the youngest NBA player to reach 30,000 regular-season points. The Cleveland Cavaliers player who needed eight points finished with 28 points when his side…

Pep Guardiola saw his Manchester City side pushed hard before defeating second-tier Bristol City in an entertaining League Cup semi-final on Tuesday to leave him one game away from winning his first major trophy in English football.…

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has claimed they had “no chance” of keeping Alexis Sanchez and suggested the forward is chasing money by joining Manchester United. The 29-year-old is expected to finalise his move to Old Trafford in the…

Manchester United have signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal, in a swap deal with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Chile forward Sanchez, 29, who almost joined Manchester City last summer, has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal worth £14m a…

Tottenham striker Harry Kane has been voted England Men’s Player of the Year for 2017. Kane was the clear winner after receiving 75 per cent of the ballots from members of the England Supporters Club. The 24-year-old made six appearances…

On what would have been his 56th birthday if he were to be alive, former Nigerian Super Eagles captain and coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has been honoured by tech Giant Google with a doodle. Doodles are changes made to the Google…

Nigerian midfielder, Joel Obi, has become surplus to requirements at Italian club Torino FC, with the club subsequently placing him on transfer, AOIFootball.com has scooped. Joel Obi joined Torino from Inter Milan in 2015 for a…

Home-based Super Eagles yesterday resurrected their hope of qualifying from Group C at the on-going African Nations Championship (Chan), beating the defending champions, Libya 1-0. The match played at the Stade Ibn Batouta in…

Brazilian international Fernandinho rated by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola as one of the three best defensive midfielders in the world signed a two year extension to his contract on Friday. The new deal will see the 32-year-old…

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round while the third seeded Garbine Muguruza and Stan Wawrinka were sent packing in upset victories on a hot day in Melbourne. Federer defeated Jan-Lennard of Germany /4; /4; 7/6 (4)…

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have maintained their 51st position in the latest Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Coca Cola World Ranking released yesterday. The latest rankings was published on FIFA’s official website.…