The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed that the game’s World Cup trophy will arrive in Abuja, Nigeria at noon today to begin...

The Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, on Saturday congratulated the Flying Eagles on their qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.

Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung has faulted claims by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that poverty level among Nigerians has worsened under President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Speaking during the Walk for Buhari organised by the women and youth campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign organisation in Abuja, yesterday, Dalung…

Football all over the world, not only in Nigeria, is more than a game of 22 young persons running after an inflated leather. It is big business and the fight for the control of its political bureaucracy in Nigeria is actually a fight for the big bucks. Since 2005 when former Nigeria Football Association (NFA)…

FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, makers of Peak Milk on Tuesday donated a new mobility bus with wheelchair access to the Nigeria Para-powerlifting Federation. The donation at the company’s headquarters in Lagos was in fulfillment of its recent promise to the Para-powerlifters.  The International Paralympic Committee-approved mobility bus seats 12 people and 15 wheel chairs. This…

Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung is at the head of a Nigerian delegation in London for talks with Nigerian national teams’ kit maker, NIKE. The team, which includes Nigeria Football Federation big wigs, including its president, Amaju Pinnick....

Youths and Sports Development Minister, Solomon Dalung has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to providing enabling environment for athletes to thrive under the various sporting federations.

Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, Governors Akinwunmi Ambode and Willy Obiano, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Atlanta ‘96 Olympic Games...

Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung yesterday vowed to resuscitate the National Stadium in Lagos, which last hosted an international competition in 2006. Since then the stadium has been abandoned to rot by successive leadership of the sports ministry. Speaking on the prospects of the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 2019, Dalung said Nigerian athletes would…

Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has blamed foreign culture for social vices like drug abuse and corruption in Nigeria. Dalung stated this on Sunday at Tarok Cultural Carnival organised by Ntim Otarok Cultural Association (NOCA), in Mabudi, Langtang South Council of Plateau State, with the theme ‘Promoting and Sustaining Tarok Culture in…

Sports minister, Solomon Dalung is not relenting in his efforts to know how the sum of N1.6 billion allegedly released to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to cover its expenditure up to the quarterfinals of the Russia 2018 World Cup was spent.

Former Nigerian jumper, hurdler and sprinter, Seigha Porbeni says the just concluded 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja was the worst ever organized in the nation’s sports history.