Mr VAR

The Orseer Ikyaator Foundation has announced the 2nd Dr. Joseph Ikyaator Tennis Open, a landmark tennis event scheduled to take place from December 16th to 23rd, 2025, in Makurdi, Benue State. This year's competition promises to be a historic milestone for Benue and Nigeria, elevating grassroots tennis development to national prominence. Building on the success of the inaugural tournament, the 2025 edition will feature a National Ranking Tournament, sanctioned to feature Nigeria's highest-ranked professional players. This marks the first time in Nigerian tennis history that Benue State will host a nationally ranked competition, positioning Makurdi as a new destination for elite tennis in Nigeria. For one week, Makurdi will become the National Tennis Capital of Nigeria, attracting top-ranked athletes, coaches, officials, and spectators from across the country. The tournament boasts a prize money of Ten Million Naira (₦10,000,000) and Five Million Naira (₦5,000,000) i...

The Nationwide League One outfit, Best Talent Football Club continue their goal exploration away from home as in form Abel Kingsley scores twice to decimate the Lagos based hosts, Browl Football Academy, 6-0 on Wednesday, 10th December, 2025 at Iseri Mini Stadium, Lagos.  Other net breakers include: Ogendegbe Mathew, Akinola Jamiu, Odubiyi Joseph and Adeniyi Frederick. The Coach Farouk Yusuf tutored lads were vehement from the blast of the whistle taking the game beyond their hosts, not minding the travelling jetlagged experience from Ogun State to Lagos under heavy traffic. Presently, Adeyinka Adeyemo's boys are currently participating in S&S Sports Management Scouting and remain undefeated even with a split team deployed for each game. Statistically, Best Talent appear to have captured Lagos state having previously defeated Team 360, Bison FC and now Browl FA . As it stands , Coach Farouk Yusuf led technical team has played 27 matches, 19 wins, 5 draws...

Best Talent Football Club of Mowe today , maintain dominant display in the Nationwide League One pre season friendly after a narrow 1–0 victory against Bison FC at Onikan stadium, Lagos on Tuesday, 9th December, 2025. Fehintola Abiola scored the decisive goal and thus leaves the Ogun State Football giants a serial winners in the South West region of Nigeria Football . Adeyinka Adeyemo's boys now have 18 wins from 24 matches, lost 3 and drew 3 as Coach Farouk Yusuf is repositioning the club for upward drive.  The win marks a stronger response after dispatching Team 360 FC at the Legacy pitch, Surulere Lagos few days ago. The pre season tour embarked upon by the Ogun State Football outfit affords the coaching crew to explore different formations ahead of the forthcoming season. It's a league where every point is a battle, and strengthening the team with different tactics and churning out victories across states is more than statistics; it’s a statement of intent in th...

Rumours flying around by some media outlets about the Super Eagles players invited for the upcoming African Cup of Nations tournament in Morocco was reduced to 54  provisional list after a player asked to be left out of the squad has been described as baseless, unfounded and imagination of the writer. The speculation has it that Super Eagles coach, Eric Chelle originally invited 55 players, but later had it trimmed to 54 after Hamburger SV, Jordan Torunarigha asked to be left out of the squad for the tournament, except he's assured of making the final list and a run in the team at the tournament proper. However, after speaking with the player from his  base in Germany with Mr VAR, the son of former Super Eagles player, Ojokojo Torunarigha revealed that he never made such appeal to anyone nor disrespected the nation's invite on the ground of a must play clause. According to the Bundesliga defender,  "I quite appreciate your diligent investigation on this matter...

Nigeria Nationwide League One (NLO1) outfit, Best Talent FC of Mowe, today, Tuesday, 2nd December, 2025 defeated Team 360 Football Club 2-1 in a pre- season friendly match held at Legacy Pitch, Surulere, National Stadium, Lagos. The Ogun state Football giant under the tutelage of Coach Farouk Yusuf, started the game with high intensity and knock off their opponents beyond rhetoric right from the early minutes.  Known as a team that’s producing young and talented players in Nigeria, two of the young and exciting forwards, Best Talent Football Maestro,  and Fehintola Abiola and Odubiyi Joseph netted the opposing sides and condemned their hosts to a helpless situation in front of their fans. Team 360 FC pulled one back as a consolatory gift to make the result stood 2-1 in favour of Adeyinka Adeyemo’s boys. Having worked with Magate FC, Fackson Tofido, Coca-Cola Junior school and other club sides with different laurels, the grassroot exponent, Farouk Yusuf ...

 Nationwide League one outfit, Best Talent Football Club of Mowe shared spoils with SC Raven on Friday, 28 November, 2025 maintaining their impressive run at Redemption City Temple Arena, Mowe, Ogun State. After an artistically technical opening half hour where both sides struggled to find the breakthrough, Joseph broke the deadlock for the homers at 34 minutes with a composed side-foot finish that left the SC Raven defense flat-footed. In a bid to check other possible options with different set of players gave rise to insurgency from the opposing sides with Raven equalising 6 minutes to the stoppage time, thus, capitalised on a sleepy blunder of the Integrity outfit.  The statistics therefore reflected Best Talent dominance, with 63% possession, 18 shots (7 on target), and 11 corners compared to SC Raven FC 5 shots (1 on target) and 5 corners. Both teams finished without any dismissals, though the match saw a combined few yellow cards. The spoils solidifies Adeyin...