By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist For diehard supporters of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons it will be very difficult contemplating a scenario Nigeria will not win the next Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) slated for Morocco in 2024. It is four years now since Nigeria won her last WAFCON trophy, this being in 2018 ...

***As Super Eagles seek fourth title in Cote d’Ivoire By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Three-time champions Nigeria have picked a team of 25 players for their onslaught for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title, with Head Coach Jose Peseiro settling for usual suspects in a roster that has three goalkeepers, nine defenders, five midfielders and eight forwards. Captain Ahmed ...

By HarryAwurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja World football-governing body, FIFA has moved the 2024 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup final qualifying round, first leg match between Nigeria and Burundi from Bujumbura to Dar es Salaam in nearby Tanzania, as the world body has deemed the pitch in Bujumbura unfit to host the game. It has also been clarified that following the expansion ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Still basking in the euphoria of Nigeria’s near clean sweep of major prizes at last week’s 2023 CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco especially in the Women’s Category, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has revealed that the football house under his watch has devised ways to maintain Nigeria’s ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Women’s Football Aficionado ….Continued from yesterday However, the final seal of approval for women’s football to have tap root in Nigeria was given in  1989 when the federal government through the Ministry of Social Development, Youth and Sports approved the request of National Sports Commission (NSC) to include women’s football as one of the events of the ...

….CAF Awards (Women) too By Harry Awurumibe, Women’s Football Aficionado There is no gainsaying the fact Nigerians in general and football followers in particular are still in Cloud 9 over the huge number of awards won by Nigerian players especially the top two prizes in men and women categories as well as crowning the senior women’s football team Super Falcons ...

***As Oshoala,  Nnadozie, Super Falcons sweep women category By Harry Awurumibe Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Super Eagles striker and Napoli of Italy talismanic goalpoacher Victor Osimhen has won the prestigious CAF Best Player of the Year Award 2023. The Nigerian who singlehandedly helped Napoli to win the Scudetto after many years in the wilderness shrugged off stiff opposition from Egypt’s Mohammed Salah ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Barely one month after she attended the Elite Women Instructors Course organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Morocco, the assistant coach of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons, Ann Agumanu-Chiejine, has today in South Africa bagged another international coaching certificate after completing a week-long first-ever CAF Goalkeeping Elite ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Apparently unsatisfied with his overall performance with his team in the year under review, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has overlooked Super Falcons head coach to the last FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, Randy Waldrum as he has failed to make the final list of the prestigious CAF ...

***As NFF keeps Nigerians guessing on vacant Head Coach position By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Until 2018 when the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) signed an agreement with top Swedish football coach, Thomas Dennerby, to take the role of Head Coach of then eight-time African champions, Super Falcons, indigenous coaches have being leading the team and have done ...