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The stadium was never just a field of grass for Stephen Okechukwu Keshi. It was a battlefield disguised in white...

For a country that prides itself on football supremacy, Nigeria’s recent World Cup qualifying campaign has been a story of...

History has always chosen its rivalries with a kind of poetic cruelty. Athens had Sparta. Muhammad Ali had Joe Frazier....

If we can't scale through and qualify for the World Cup in a group filled with low-ranking underdogs and min​nows,...

On a February night in 1989, the city of Dammam exhaled a silence that felt almost unnatural. The desert sky...

Nigeria has never hosted a FIFA World Cup, despite its long-standing football tradition and passionate fan base. The country’s ambition...

While many moves are hailed as perfect and an upgrade on a player's former club, others are deemed uninspiring and...

The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) has continued to grow in relevance across the country and on the African stage....

On some forgotten afternoon in the late 1980s, in a corner of Owerri where the heat clung stubbornly to rusted...

On a narrow street in Ojuelegba, Lagos, rows of betting shops glow with bright signboards promising instant winnings. Inside, young...