May 2026

Ahmed Musa holds a record that most Nigerian football fans carry in their hearts: he scored both goals in Nigeria's 2–0 victory over Iceland at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first Nigerian player to score in two different World…

Ese Brume never set out to fill anyone's shoes. When Blessing Okagbare chose sprints over the long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the 18-year-old from Ughelli, Delta State, stepped into the sandpit and won gold. It was, in…

On a hot July evening in Eugene, Oregon in 2022, Oluwatobiloba Ayomide Amusan did something no Nigerian — indeed no African — had ever done in an athletics event. She won gold at the World Athletics Championships in the 100 metres hurdles,…

For more than a decade, Blessing Okagbare was Nigeria's most recognisable athlete — a sprinting and long jumping force who could beat anyone on her best days, whose 100m time of 10.79 seconds stood as the African record for years, and whose…

At the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, in the Group D match between Nigeria and Spain, Sunday Oliseh received the ball 35 yards from goal and hit it — first time, with the outside of his right foot — into the top corner of the net with a…

Paul Onuachu is a striker who does not make sense on paper until you watch him play. Standing at 6 feet 7 inches tall, he is physically among the most imposing footballers on the planet. Defenders expect an old-fashioned target man who wins…

Taiwo Awoniyi's career is one of football's most instructive redemption stories. Liverpool signed him as a teenager in 2015, but for six years he could not get a work permit to play in England, spending that entire period on loan across…

Ola Aina's story carries an element that resonates beyond the usual football narrative: he is a player who had a choice. Born in London to Nigerian parents, Aina was eligible to represent England and trained in Chelsea's academy system —…

In French Ligue 1, a league known for discovering and shaping some of the world's great strikers, Terem Moffi wrote a quiet but compelling chapter of his own. From arriving at Lorient as a relatively unknown Nigerian striker to becoming one…

Samuel Chukwueze Biography: Nigeria's Explosive Winger with La Liga Pedigree Samuel Chukwueze is a footballer who makes stadiums hold their breath. When he receives the ball in wide areas, the combination of pace, close control, and…