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Saudi Arabia’s football body said it was ending the contract of national coach Roberto Mancini after 14 months in the job on Thursday following a run of poor results. The Saudi Football Federation has reached a “joint agreement” to terminate the contract of Mancini, 59, who signed a lucrative deal in August last year, a…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, scrapped the Federal Ministry of Sports Development and replaced it with the National Sports Commission (NSC). Tinubu announced the scrapping of the sports ministry alongside four others in a mini-cabinet rejig, yesterday.
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Football agent and global brand strategist Andrew Uyioghosa Ogbomoide, widely known as Drew Uyi, has thrown his support behind the newly appointed Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, in a bid to revitalise the Nigerian sports industry for enhanced efficiency and performance. Drew Uyi, based in the UK, expressed confidence in Dikko’s…
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The newly elected African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) Executive Council has signed a pact with Ethiopian Airlines to develop the sport in the continent.
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The Nigerian women’s U-17 national team, Flamingos, who went through the group stage of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup with a 100 per cent win record, are braced for a crunchy tie with world powers, the United States in the quarterfinals of the competition.
