LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African player of The Year, Victor Osimhen and other two Super Eagles players, Moses Simon and William Troost-Ekong passed the Confederation of African Football (CAF) random anti-doping tests and are free to take part in their quarter-final clash with Angola on Friday, BSN sports.com.ng reports. CAF picked Nigeria international striker Victor Osimhen,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reigning champions Algeria were dumped out of the Africa Cup of Nations after an abject 3-1 defeat against the Ivory Coast as the group stage came to a conclusion on Thursday with Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea and tiny tournament debutants the Comoros all securing places in the last 16. Franck Kessie, Ibrahim Sangare…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vincent Aboubakar scored a brace of penalties to give hosts Cameroon a 2-1 win over Burkina Faso on Sunday in Yaounde as the Africa Cup of Nations finally got under way after a build-up troubled by the coronavirus. A raft of positive Covid-19 cases among competing teams has marked the days leading…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will resist the temptation to sack under-fire coach Gernot Rohr despite a worrying winless run, national team chiefs insisted Friday. Sports minister Sunday Dare has questioned the competence of the German coach after the Super Eagles failed to win a match this year, drawing three times and losing once. “Nigerian football…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria have moved up to 33rd place in the Fifa World Rankings released on Thursday for the month of July. On the back of their bronze-winning feat in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the Super Eagles climbed 12 places from their 45th position in June, accruing 1481 points. After finishing second…
