The 12-time Grand Slam champion was forced to retire in the second set of his Wimbledon quarter-final with Tomas Berdych earlier this month and later revealed that he had been suffering from pain in his right elbow for over a year-and-a-half.
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It’s not the first time the former heavyweight champion has said he is calling time on his career but the 28-year-old claimed on Wednesday that his stint as a boxer has come to an end.
The Nigerian international was moved from the right wing-back to the left wing back in the closing stages of their 2-3 loss to Bayern Munich in Singapore on Tuesday.
Dalung made the call on Tuesday in a protest letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, over the refusal of the UK and US to issue transit visas to Team Nigeria to the Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Match Day 31 encounter scheduled for Sunday was shifted to Monday morning due to heavy downpour at the Soccer Temple, Agege Stadium.
The 19-year-old scored 26 goals for a struggling Bristol City side last season, including 23 in the Championship, and he has once again been shipped out on loan by parent club Chelsea for the 2017-18 campaign.
Chelsea started brightly in the second game of their tour of Asia but they fell behind after just six minutes
Emefiele said this while fielding questions from newsmen at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting of the CBN on Tuesday in Abuja.
Apart from winning the sum of N1 million, Obanor also won for himself a brand new GAC car and will also be representing Nigeria at the World Super Ball Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, Dalung said the football world governing body, FIFA, wanted to do justice to Africa.
Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, who will be making her fourth competitive appearance at the IAAF flagship event, will compete in the 100m and long jump events.
As the most successful player in the history of the championship and since the inception of the ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open in 2013, Egypt’s Omar Assar has been unbeaten apart from his absence in 2016, which paved way for Finland’s Benedek Olah to claim the men’s singles title.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn added that the fight is likely to take place in Las Vegas, with either the MGM Grand or the T-Mobile Arena the expected venue for the encounter.
Okpala takes over from Chukwuma Agbo, who has been in caretaker charge of the NPFL side since the contract of championship-winning coach Imama Amapakabo was terminated earlier this year.
Bolt will chase his fourth successive 100 metres world title and a fifth consecutive 4x100m relay gold at the August 4-14 meeting, his last international competition.
McGregor has been hard at work at the UFC’s newly-opened state-of-the-art Performance Institute in Vegas as he prepares to take on undefeated Mayweather at boxing.
The session, according to the national team Twitter handle: @NGSuperEagles, was supervised by Coach Salisu Yusuf and his assistants at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano
The former Manchester United striker has penned a three-year contract, which is reportedly worth £140,000 a week, making him the highest-paid player in the club’s history.
Collins, who was reinstated as a representative of the National Association of Women in Sport, expressed her dissatisfaction on Monday during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
This is according to Zdenko Milinkovic, a physician with the Serbia national team, who spoke for Belgrade’s Sportski Zurnal sports daily.