The delegation of Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons to next week’s 2020 Olympics qualifying match against the Senior Women National Team of Algeria will depart Nigeria on Saturday. Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has already submitted a list of 18 home –based professionals who will do battle with the Algerians, following the inability of foreign –based players to make the ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Newly sworn-in Minister of Sports and Youth Development have promised to take sports and youth development to the next level in accordance with the vision and mission of the President Mohammadu Buhari-led Federal Government. Speaking exclusively this afternoon at the lobby of Aso Rock Villa, Abuja After he and 42 others were assigned portfolios by President Buhari  ...

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles got their first three points of the football event of the ongoing 12th African Games with a 2-1 win over South Africa at the FAR Sports Complex in Rabat on Tuesday. Goals by Collins Sor and Ahmed Ghali ensured Nigeria went top of Group A of the men’s football event at the on-going competition. Coach Paul Aigbogun made ...

Ahead of the FIFA U17 World Cup taking place in Brazil 26th October – 17th November, Acting President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi has charged the Manu Garba-led technical crew of the Golden Eaglets to focus on the youth development policy and programme of the Federation. Akinwunmi, who is also the Chairman of the NFF Football Committee disclosed ...

Harry Awurumibe                         The Head Coach of the national senior women’s football team, Super Falcons, Thomas Dennerby has submitted the list of the players he hopes to use to prosecute the two-legged CAF Olympics qualifier matches between Algeria and Nigeria. With the first leg scheduled for the Blida, a city near Algiers, the capital of Algeria on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 ...

Management and Staff of the Nigeria Football Federation on Monday felicitated with the General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, on his recent turbanning as the Danmasani Wajeke of Wamakko local government in Sokoto State.   Dr. Sanusi was himself pleasantly surprised when all members of Management and Staff lined up at the door to the Glass House to give him a ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has disclosed that its lawyers have started to review the decision against former Nigeria player and coach Samson Siasia by the FIFA Ethics Committee, which on Friday announced that it had placed a life ban from all football-related activities on Siasia.   Acting President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, himself a lawyer of ...

The General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Mohammed Sanusi has challenged the U20 boys’ and girls’ National Teams to go for gold medals in the football events of the ongoing 12th All-Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco. Paul Aigbogun’s wards were forced to a 1-1 draw by their counterparts from Burkina Faso in their opening match of the men’s ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed shock over the death on the morning of Sunday 18th August 2019, of a former Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League and 2nd Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Oyuki Jackson Obaseki. The 75 –year old breathed his last on Sunday in Benin City, having left his giant footprints in the sands ...

Defending Champions Football Club Barcelona made a nightmare start to the defence of their La Liga title on Friday by losing Luis Suarez to injury and then losing 1-0 to Athletic Bilbao, after a sensational late volley from substitute Aritz Aduriz. Suarez hobbled off in the 37th minute with what looked like a calf injury before Aduriz came on in ...