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The 78th Annual General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation will hold on Friday in Benin City, capital of Edo State alongside elections of a new Executive Committee to steer the affairs of the nation’s supreme football–ruling body for the next four years. A ruling by the Court of Appeal on Thursday morning ordered a […]
Former Super Eagles captain and Chelsea star Mikel John Obi announced his retirement from football at the age of 35. The AFCON 2013 winner has brought down the curtain on an 18-year laurel-laden senior career that included 11 years in West London, a club he joined in 2006 in one of the most bizarre contractual […]
Norwegian striker of Nigerian heritage, Antonio Eromonsele Nusa, has become the second youngest player to score in the UEFA Champions League scoring the last goal for Club Brugge in their four-nil thumping of FC Porto on Tuesday, in a match day-two encounter. The 180cm tall attacker sits second to FC Barcelona forward Ansu Fati. At […]
The Federal Government has declared the League Management Company, the organisers of the Nigeria Professional Football League, an illegal organisation. The LMC established in 2012 is in charge of the local professional league in Nigeria but has now been enmeshed in politics. The Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, also at the centre of the […]
Chelsea Football Club have this morning parted ways with Manager, Thomas Tuchel. The London club’s new owners fired their head coach Tuchel, just three months after completing their takeover of the club. Tuchel was appointed as Frank Lampard’s successor in January 2021 and guided Chelsea to their second Champions League crown later in May that […]
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has promised to pay the country’s under-20 women’s soccer team, The Falconets their outstanding match bonuses as the team finally arrived home after an unusually long return journey from Costa Rica where they participated in the women under-20 FIFA World Cup. NFF general secretary, Mohammed Sanusi and representative of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will do all it can to ensure the development of football in Nigeria; describing the sport as a “National Asset”. The President stated this when he received a 10-year-Football Development- Master plan for his approval from the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare in Abuja on […]
The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare says boxer Anthony Joshua, UFC fighter Kamaru Usman and the women’s national U-20 football team, the Falconets should not allow their defeats over the weekend to dampen their spirits. The Minister says in spite of their losses, they can keep their heads up because they […]
The 2022/23 Premier League season is only two weeks old but there has already been enough drama to satisfy even the most unmovable of fans with the heights of the weekend’s drama culminating at the Bridge in West London. Reigning champions Manchester City have reclaimed the top spot after a perfect start, thanks to a […]
Nigeria’s under 20 women’s national football team, the Falconets have booked a place in the Quarter-finals of the ongoing 10th FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. The team led by Chris Danjuma recorded a 1-0 victory against South Korea in their second group game played on Sunday. South Korean girls were brimming with […]
