The Nigerian Football Federation is delighted to announce it has agreed a multi-year partnership with top Italian football club, AS Roma, The partnership, which was unveiled  on Friday in Abuja, will see the NFF and Roma collaborate  together on and off the pitch, with one long term objective being for the club to help further grow and improve all levels of football in Nigeria. Under the terms of the understanding, the two parties will share football, business and media ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. The Honourable Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Sunday Akin Dare on Friday met with the Members of Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) led by Mr. Melvin Amaju Pinnick and the General Secretary, Dr, Mohammed Sanusi. The crucial meeting which was at instance of the minister, was to interface with the NFF towards ...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, His Excellency Joseph Olusola Iji today (Friday) made a passionate win-the-match plea to the Home-based Senior National Team, Super Eagles B who arrived in Lome, Togo by mid-day of the same day. The Eagles will take on the Sparrow Hawks of Togo on Sunday in a first leg, second round qualifying match of ...

Harry Awurumibe,  Abuja. Barcelona’s 16-year-old starlet Ansu Fati was granted Spanish citizenship earlier today (Friday), a government spokeswoman said, meaning he will be able to represent Spain at international level. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet approved a request made by the justice minister to give the Guinea-Bissau-born forward Spanish citizenship during its weekly meeting, the spokeswoman said. Fati was ...

Harry Awurumibe. A FIFA delegation visited Tehran on Friday to discuss allowing female spectators into football matches, the official news agency IRNA reported, days after a public row over a female fan who killed herself. “The FIFA delegation first visited the sports ministry and talked to officials and the football federation on the presence of women in (Tehran’s) Azadi stadium,” ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Sports and Youth Development minister, Sunday Akin Dare has said that he will continue to work together with the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to ensure that football does not suffer despite its leadership undergoing government agency’s procedural examination. Speaking to the State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council ...

Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Akin Dare has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will host the sportsmen and women who did the country proud at international competitions recently. Dare who addressed the State House Press Corps in Abuja today in the company of Information minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Works Housing minister, Babatunde ...

Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Akin Dare has disclosed that a whopping sum of N1.2 billion is required for the maintenance of the federal government-owned stadia. This much was revealed by the minister while briefing State House Correspondents today in Abuja after the second Federal Executive Council (FEC). He said that most of ...

The Nigeria Football Federation is working hard at sealing a match with an African team for the Super Eagles, after announcing on Monday night that the three –time African champions will play Brazil in a friendly in Singapore on Sunday 13th October. Nigeria and Brazil will tango in a much –anticipated encounter at the Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore on ...

Harry Awurumibe Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie is among the early birds as the team’s Abuja camp has come alive today with the arrival of many of the home- based professional players invited to camp by the Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifier match between Nigeria and Cote d Ivoire. Among the early birds at ...