Daily Archives: July 9, 2019

Fireworks as Eagles, Bafana light up Cairo

Nigeria and South Africa are at each other’s jugular in what promises to be a frenetic Africa Cup of Nations quarter final attrition at the Cairo International Stadium on Wednesday night. The match kicks off at 9pm Egypt time (8pm Nigeria time). While the Super Eagles bundled out Cup holders and five –time winners Cameroon 3-2 in the Round of ...

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AFCON 2019: Pinnick charges Eagles to soar over Bafana

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick has called on the Super Eagles to rise to the occasion and do the nation proud in Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter final battle with South Africa in Cairo. At a meeting with the players at breakfast on Tuesday, the man who is also chief organizer of the AFCON ...

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All Africa Games: Falconets start training, camp bubbles 

By Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau No fewer than fifteen players of the national U-20 women’s football squad were at Team Nigeria’s camp yesterday.    A visit to the Agura hotel Abuja camp of Team Nigeria revealed that most of the invited players have either arrived or are on the way coming to Abuja as  at yesterday.   Amongst the ...

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