Nigeria eased into the quarter-finals of the All-African Badminton Championships after beating Zimbabwe 5-0 in Port Harcourt today.

Fresh from their 5-0 win over South Africa in their Group D opener yesterday, Habeeb Temitope Bello and

host to the All-African Badminton Championships ©Getty ImagesAlso advancing from Group D were South Africa

Germany has emerged as a potential candidate to host the 2025 Summer Universiade after a delegation of officials from the country held talks with the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

leading the feasibility study.Other countries who could bid for the 2025 Summer Universiade include South Africa

Rugby Africa’s President, Khaled Babbou, has met his counterparts at Rugby Europe and World Rugby in London to discuss the proposed World Rugby Nations Championship and its potential effect on tier two and three countries.

Brett Gosper about the impact of the planned global competition on the lower levels of the game.A Rugby Africa

statement said: “The discussions touched on the future of Rugby in Africa, its immense potential and

the strategies to keep growing the game in Africa and improving performance at the same time.

Babbou, the encounter was a good platform to give his vision for the growth and development of rugby in Africa

Both the formal and informal discussions laid the platform for Rugby Africa to work closely with its

Hosts Nigeria thrashed South Africa 5-0 as action began today at the All-African Badminton Championships

The opening game against South Africa went fine and our strategy is to take each game as it come," Nigeria

UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger and England Netball chief executive Joanna Adams have visited Zambia as part of the World Cup legacy programme - NET2019.

 International Netball Federation Africa regional development manager Joan Smit was also in attendance

Conflicting messages have again emanated from International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach in the past 10 days.

Olympic dreams are worryingly frequent, while other competitors, particularly in developing countries in Africa

A record-breaking 15 countries are set to take part in the All-African Badminton Championships at Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa

Egypt are the defending champions in the team event, having taken the title for the first time in South Africa

Alabo the shuttler is the mascot for the All-African Badminton Championships ©Badminton Confederation Africa"It

The event has been organised by the Badminton Confederation Africa (BCA) and the Badminton Federation

It is a sad indictment of the state of global sports governance that everywhere you look, a bad news story seems to rear its ugly head.

of Man to meet European nations and then Zanzibar to meet Commonwealth representatives from across Africa

Cricket Scotland has paid tribute to Con De Lange following his death at the age of 38 on April 18 following a brain tumour.

“He was a great servant to cricket in Scotland as well as South Africa and elsewhere, not just in the

287 from Zimbabwe, with De Lange taking one wicket and then hitting the winning runs.Born in South Africa

The International Boxing Association's (AIBA) precarious status as the Olympic governing body for the sport is among the headline topics set to be discussed during an extraordinary meeting of the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC) Executive Committee tomorrow.

investigation.The governing body gave countries interested in hosting qualifiers in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa

Hamad Kalkaba Malboum has been re-elected Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) President after he comfortably defeated challenger Amara Khaled at the organisation's Congress in Abidjan.

Malboum, who failed in his bid to become President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

North and South Korea – who are still technically at war – remain in the running to host the FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup.

World Cup ©Getty ImagesArgentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa

Samuel Eto’o, one of the most decorated players in world football, has joined the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) – the organisation responsible for delivering tournament infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and its associated legacy programmes – as a global ambassador.

, in March 2006 he launched the Samuel Eto’o Foundation and has since built football schools across Africa

have to share my experience with some and above all, the grassroots in Cameroon in particular and in Africa

Cameroon, stripped of hosting rights for this year’s African Cup of Nations (AFCON), has now been offered the staging of the 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN) finals in place of Ethiopia.

gone to Cameroon “by tacit agreement”.CAF President Ahmad Ahmad said Cameroon, stripped of the 2019 Africa

awarded the 2019 African Nations Championship "by tacit agreement" ©Getty ImagesIn 2014, CAF awarded the Africa

Paralympics Australia have announced a partnership with global financial services firm Citi in the build-up to Tokyo 2020.

Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa