The Swartland project is a second privately funded bid in South Africa's push to host Formula One for the first time since 1993. The group is targeting a grand prix by 2031.

NBA Africa is moving the Basketball Africa League to permanent, privately owned franchises, with initial bids of more than $50 million reported from six countries.

Nigerian artist will perform at the league's first regular-season game in France as the NFL expands its international footprint

Charlton Athletic Women have set up a standalone club board ahead of their return to English football's top flight.

DAZN will cover 48 markets across the region, giving subscribers access to all 380 matches a season in English and Spanish.

The new season kicked off on Friday, under an administrators nobody had heard of a week earlier, while the body meant to oversee the federation itself is still stuck in a leadership crisis of its own.

The NPFL, the sponsorship is the first conventional title deal since Globacom's backing lapsed in 2016.

Cameroon collected a $2 million winners' cheque after beating Malawi in Rabat to claim a maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations title, the single biggest prize money in the competition's history.

Landmark Africa is planning the Dream Theatre Entertainment Centre, a 20,000-capacity indoor arena in Lagos anchoring more than 70,000 sqm of mixed-use development.

A video scouting and analysis platform used by clubs, coaches and federations to track youth players, giving the Nigerian development league a data and video trail that scouts outside the country can follow.

Since 2023 she had served as Third Vice-President on the executive committee of the Africa School Sport Federation, and has sat as an assessor on the ISF Executive Committee. A positioning that made her a credible continental candidate well before the Belgrade vote.

The partnership centres on the inaugural NBA REC University Tournament, a two-day competition running 7–8 August at the University of Lagos.

Team PRONC signed its entry during E1's Monaco race weekend at the Yacht Club de Monaco, according to a statement. It becomes the latest addition to a grid whose ownership roster is heavily weighted toward celebrity investors, including LeBron James, Tom Brady, Rafael Nadal and Didier Drogba.

The invitation, issued alongside a bidding framework built with PwC and CAF's technical, financial and legal advisers, is pitched as a transparent, ethical process aligned with global best practice.

The broadcaster has logged more than 920 million views across its official YouTube channel and social platforms as of Friday, with the tournament's final still to play on Sunday.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) framed the tie-up as a milestone in its drive to reposition Nigerian sport and put globally recognised brands back on the country's athletes.

Emenalo, the Nigerian-born former technical director at Chelsea and Monaco, was one of the highest-profile executive appointments in the SPL.

Can a league that has struggled for years to sell its broadcast rights and pay modest wages suddenly underwrite the most expensive reward structure in its history?

It's a clean fit on paper: a digital-first bank chasing a young, mobile, football-watching audience, paired with a club that has built its brand around modern, intentional community-building.

DStv Stream, MultiChoice's streaming app, will now ship pre-installed on Samsung's Smart TV range across 18 new African markets, including: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.