BY HARRY AWURUMIBE In the words of an Irish author Oscar Wilde and Will Rogers, an American accomplished performer/actor, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” This very popular quote is apt in the decision of the incumbent President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Alhaji  Ibrahim Musa Gusau to prioritise accountability and selfless service in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja, Nigeria As the countdown races to Friday’s crucial 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, Nigeria’s Super Eagles are unfazed by talks of Nigeria never having beaten Rwanda in any part of the country called Rwanda. Their focus, according to team captain William Ekong, is the three points at stake.  “Actually, ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs have made a clean sweep of the tickets to the next round of the 2025 President Federation Cup with only Kano Pillars being the only casualty as Enugu Rangers eliminated them in the Round of 64 match played at Gwari Mini-Stadium in Abuja. Aside Rangers that beat Kano ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Ibrahim Musa Gusau-led NFF administration will add another milestone on Tuesday when the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Players’ Hostel and a number of new training pitches holds in Abuja. The groundbreaking will be done by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, GCON. Named the NFF-FIFA Players’ Hostel, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Renowned Football Analyst,  Abuja, Nigeria The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. This time-tested quote by a famous American poet and educator, *Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”* bears a clear testament to the rising profile of a Moroccan football administrator- extraordinaire, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja The 14th CAF Extraordinary General Assembly will be held in Cairo on Wednesday, 12 March 2025, at the Marriott Mena House. The event, starting at 10h00 Cairo Time (08h00 GMT), will be broadcast on CAFOnline.com and CAF TV. Key African football leaders, including presidents of CAF’s 54 Member Associations and its six Zonal Unions, as ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor -in-Chief, Abuja Bureau                                                                                                                                                      Determined to stamp out crowd incidents or totally eradicate stampede in match venues in its country, Botswana Football Association (BFA) has become the 20th nation in Africa to host the CAF Safe Stadium Initiative Workshop. The workshop designed to train Safety and Security Officers who will man the stadia across the country during ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                               ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                             Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingos, will on Wednesday fly out of the country to South Africa for the first of their two-leg FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying fixture against the U17 girls of South Africa, known as Bantwana.  The match, for which the Confederation of African Football has selected Kenyan officials to suprintend, will kick ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja It is not always that football fraternity will gather to celebrate one of their own, but it was a different case at the weekend in Abuja when sports personalities especially football fraternity, politically exposed persons and others gathered at the highbrow Maitama District, Abuja for the birthday bash of United Kingdom-born Nigerian FIFA licensed agent ...