The Federal Government on Friday lauded the bronze medal –winning effort of the Super Eagles, as a team led by the Secretary to the Federal Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha received the Nigeria delegation to the finals in Egypt, on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. A chartered Air Peace aircraft that flew the delegation from ...

The term of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick as the 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football along with that of the 2nd and 3rd Vice Presidents expired today. In line with Article 22(4) of the CAF Statutes, every two years when elections are held at the CAF Congress (as took place ...

Mr Ahmad Ahmad, President of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has defended the announcement that the World Soccer Governing Body, FIFA, would take over the running of African football in the interim. Delivering his speech at the 41st CAF Ordinary Assembly in Cairo on Thursday, Ahmad said he actually requested for help from FIFA. Ahmad admitted not having necessary ...

Last June, the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Ahmad Ahmad announced that he had called on FIFA President Gianni Infantino to create an unprecedented partnership between FIFA and CAF that would allow the continuation of reforms aimed at modernising the governing body of African football. Today, at the CAF General Assembly held in Cairo, the two organisations ...

Harry Awurumibe A 3rd minute goal when the game was still young was all that the Super Eagles of Nigeria needed to defeat the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia 1-0 at Al Salaam Stadium in Cairo, Egypt to finish in the third place and also claim the Bronze medal in the AFCON 2019 edition. Nigeria could have scored more goals as ...

By Harry Awurumibe The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has expanded the African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) from eight to 12 teams starting from the 2020 tournament. This piece of information was dropped earlier today via the social media by no less a person than the CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad in Cairo, Egypt. “With @CAF_Online’s #exco, we took a great ...

Harry Awurumibe Africa’s football governing body, CAF is set to have a much-anticipated Congress on Thursday, where some far-reaching decisions including the idea to cede control of the body to FIFA are likely to dominate discussions. The meeting to be held in Egypt’s capital, Cairo is the first by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) 54-member associations since allegations of ...

It is a feisty confrontation of Eagles as Nigeria and Tunisia file out at the Al Salam Stadium in Cairo on Wednesday for the third place match of the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals.  Otherwise called the ‘losers’ final’, the third place match traditionally awards bronze medals to the winning team. Both Nigeria and Tunisia must recover adequately and ...

Harry Awurumibe who was in France The world may have seen the last of some of the super stars of women’s football at the just concluded 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final even as France 2019 may well prove to be the World Cup swansong for some of the world’s finest players like Megan Rapinoe of United States and Brazil’s ...

Harry Awurumibe Former Super Falcons Head Coach, Alhaji Ismaila Mabo has described the Round of 16 exit of Nigeria in the just concluded 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France as a big failure against the backdrop of the adequate preparations given to the team by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) ahead of the competition. In an exclusive chat ...