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The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria Sunday night beat Ghana 6-1 in their African Junior Championship Group B match in Marrakech, Morocco. Striker Isaac Success scored four goals. He opened the scoring with a finish on 10 minutes before Bulbwa added the second from a counter-attack in the 30th minute. In the match, Nigerians announced themselves as the team to beat ...

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Manchester City will meet Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup final after winning an enthralling Wembley encounter with Chelsea. The 2011 winners looked on course for a comfortable victory as goals either side of half-time from Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero gave them the lead their dominance deserved. Chelsea, to their great credit given their recent arduous schedule, somehow summoned ...

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to launch violent attacks on mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations of Islamic followers, as well as assassinations of clerics who propagate doctrines of hate. According to MEND in a statement issued on Sunday evening and signed by its spokesperson Gbomo Jomo, the proposed attacks is a ...

Former Super Eagles star Peter Rufai has denied he bolted away with the sum of €200,000 meant for a Nigeria community football club in Belgium. It was reported earlier this week that Rufai ran to Nigeria with the money given to Nigeria community football club by the Belgian government to feature in the Belgian fourth division. However, according to a ...