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By: Highcelebritysquard    The all-conquering scrabble contingent of Nigeria to the 14th Africa Scrabble Championship in Lusaka, Zambia, will arrive in the country on Wednesday. Nigeria stamped its authority again at the 2022 edition of the tournament, which featured 86 scrabble players from 10 countries, winning its 13th title in 14 editions of the championship.

By: Highcelebritysquard   According to an Indian publication, Khel Now, Nigerian striker, Sylvester Igbonu, has quit Indian club, NorthEast United, barely a month after joining the club, citing poor accommodation as the reason for leaving, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The former FC Ebedei and ex-FC Midtjylland striker was the Highlanders’ sixth and final signing for

By: Highcelebritysquard    With the EuroLeague Women’s new season set to get underway, basketball world governing body, FIBA, has listed some of the top players to look out for, with Nigeria’s Evelyn Akhator making the ranks, PUNCH Sport Extra reports. EuroLeague Women is the premier women’s basketball competition in Europe, featuring the top 16 teams

By: Highcelebritysquard      Rory McIlroy regained the world number-one ranking on Sunday with a one-stroke victory in the US PGA Tour’s CJ Cup. Three late birdies helped the Northern Ireland star hold off American Kurt Kitayama and return to the top of the rankings for the ninth time, and for the first time since

By: Highcelebritysquard    Bayelsa United, Bendel Insurance, El-Kanemi Warriors and Doma United will again wait till November before facing off in the Nigeria National League Super 4 play-off, no thanks to flooding that has ravaged some parts of Bayelsa State, where the tournament was scheduled to hold. The season-ending event was rescheduled to hold between

By: Highcelebritysquard    National and West African welterweight champion, Taiwo Olowu (14-1-0), will be making a bid to claim the belt of current WBO Africa welterweight champion, Charles Shinima (14-0-0) of Namibia. The two fighters will meet in arguably one of the biggest fights in Africa in 2022 on October 29 in Windhoek, Namibia. Olowu

By: Highcelebritysquard      Former France and Bayern Munich attacking midfielder Franck Ribery announced his retirement from football on Friday after succumbing to a persistent knee injury which kept him out of action for Serie A club Salernitana. A World Cup runner-up with rance in 2006, Ribery’s greatest successes came at Bayern Munich, where over

By: Highcelebritysquard      Tyson Fury will defend his world heavyweight title in an all-British trilogy fight against Derek Chisora in London on December 3 after the collapse of talks for a prospective showdown with Anthony Joshua. The bout against Chisora, whom Fury beat in 2011 and 2014, will be the “Gypsy King’s” first outing

By: Highcelebritysquard      Villarreal vice-president Jose Manuel Llaneza, a figure who has played a big part in the club’s success over nearly three decades, died on Thursday at the age of 74 years after a battle with leukaemia. “The club wishes to manifest its profound and immense pain, sadness and dismay for the irreparable

By: Highcelebritysquard    Steven Gerrard was sacked as Aston Villa manager less than two hours after his struggling side crashed to a dismal 3-0 defeat at Fulham on Thursday. Gerrard paid the price for Villa’s wretched start to the season, which sees the club languishing just one place above the Premier League relegation zone. Villa