A former member of the Flying Eagles team, Mike Onyemachara who won a silver medal in Saudi Arabia in 1989, is dead. Onyemachara reportedly passed away on Thursday, May 4. The circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. But unconfirmed account indicated that he might have died in his three-bedroom apartment in Ajegunle area of Lagos. Some […]
Football enthusiasts have tipped a veteran football referee and university Don, Suleiman Usman Omeiza, to emerge President of the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA). The NewsZenith reports that election of new national officers of NRA holds on Saturday, April 29 in Ilorin. Sources close to the Council of NRA have expressed optimism that Omeiza would emerge […]
Kwara United, Coach Kabiru Dogo, has described his team’s 1-0 away defeat to Gombe United as a huge setback for its efforts at advancing on the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Group A log. Dogo lament the defeat after the team’s NPFL Match Day 11 fixture encounter with Gombe United, played at the Pantami Stadium […]
Explosions rocked Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, an international athletic competition, which kicked off in the country’s restive Anglophone region of Southwest, on Saturday, according to the Police and eyewitness. The blasts went off in three locations just a few minutes after the race began in Buea, the chief town of the region, the local […]
As the presidential election gets underway, youths mounted several football pitches on major highways in parts of the Lagos metropolis. Correspondents of The NewsZenith, monitoring the elections, observed that no fewer than 15 temporary football pitches were mounted. This happened between Costain and Oyingbo on Apapa road in the Mainland Local Government area. Some of […]
The 8th Gold-Label Access Bank Lagos City Marathon kicked off on Saturday amidst fanfare, with runners expectant of a good show. The marathon began at 7.00.a.m at National Stadium, Surulere, with Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare on the sidelines for the start. A total of 50,000 runners, local and international, are participating […]
Gombe United Football Club secured their first win of the 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season with a 2-1 win over Shooting Stars of Ibadan. In their Group A Match Day 5 fixture, on Wednesday at the Pantami Township Stadium in Gombe, Taye Yusuf grabbed a brace in the 52nd and 58th minutes. The […]
Dozens of Indian wrestlers staged a protest on Wednesday against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), the governing body of the sport in the country. The wrestlers sat on a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in India’s capital New Delhi. “The federation’s job is to support the players and take care of their sporting needs. […]
By Oluwashina Iyanda FIFA has announced it sold over half-a-million tickets to fans from more than 120 countries for the ninth edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. This is contained in a statement e-mailed to The NewsZenith on Monday The women soccer tournament is taking place this July and August in Australia and Aotearoa New […]
The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have qualified for the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled for Algeria in April. The lions obtained the qualification after beating Congo 2-0 on Sunday at the ongoing Central African Football Federations’ Union (UNIFFAC) tournament. The tournament, which kicked off in Cameroon on Friday, serves as zonal qualifiers for […]