By Harry Awurumube, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The final draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Egypt 2025 will be conducted on Sunday, 13 April at 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT). The tournament will be staged from 27 April to 18 May, 2025, with Sunday’s draw LIVE from the Egyptian Football Association headquarters via ON Time channels and ...
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Christian Chukwu: Oriental Derby to go on despite demise, Says Enugu Rangers boss
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Despite the sad news of the demise of its foremost captain and head coach, Chief Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu, in the early hours of today in Enugu, Rangers International Football Club management has said that the Oriental Derby between the Coal-city outfit and neighbours, Heartland Football Club of Owerri will go ahead tomorrow at Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, ...
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: CAF officially announces revision of U-20 AFCON draw
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially informed Member Associations (MAs) affiliated to it that qualified for the forthcoming CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2025, including Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) of the decision by CAF Organizing Committee for Youth Competitions to redo the draw to realign the match calendar, considering the ...
Read More »Ahead WAFCON 2025: Ghana, Morocco, suffer defeats, Tunisia wins in friendlies
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Writer Host of the forthcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), Morocco have suffered their first defeat in the build-up to the competition slated for the North African nation in July after losing 0-1 to Cameroon’s senior women’s football team yesterday in their international friendly match played in Casablanca. This is even ...
Read More »CAF B- Licence Coaching Course takes off in Nigeria
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau (MON), on Monday at the NFF-FIFA Technical Centre inside the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja officially inaugurated the first batch of participants for the CAF B-Licence Coaching Course. The NFF boss expressed his delight at witnessing this significant milestone: “Today marks a moment of great ...
Read More »Ghana, Morocco, other WAFCON 2025-bound teams test skills against tough opposition
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Writer, Abuja No fewer than 10 African women’s senior national teams, including the African reigning champions South Africa, will be in action on todayy as the March-April FIFA Women’s International Match Window closes on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. After losing to Thailand 3-2 last week, the Copper Queens of Zambia will play Uzbekistan ...
Read More »WAFCON 2025: Morocco thrash Nigeria’s opponents, Tunisia, 3-1, Egypt wallop Jordan 3-0 in friendlies
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Writer, Abuja Nigeria’s group opponents in the forthcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), Tunisia lost woefully to host country, Morocco 3-1 over the weekend in one of the international friendly matches played across the world including the African continent as part of the 2025 FIFA women’s international match windows. Prompt News ...
Read More »Ahead WAFCON 2025: South Africa thrash Malawi 3-0, Ghana pips Senegal 1-0 in friendlies
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Writer, Abuja Forward Elizabeth Badu’s 24′ goal was all Ghana needed to defeat host Senegal 1-0 in the first of the two-legged international friendly matches between the two West African countries in preparation for their forthcoming Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) billed for Morocco in July. The match played in the Senegalese ...
Read More »Int’l Friendlies: Nigeria’s opponents, Tunisia, battles host Morocco ahead WAFCON 2025
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Writer Ahead of the 2025 CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) slated for Morocco in July, one of Nigeria’s group opponents in the competition Tunisia will on Tuesday in the city of Casablanca take on the host nation Morocco during the 2025 FIFA women’s international match calendar running from March 31 to ...
Read More »2025 WAFCON: Zambia tests strength against Thailand, China
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja, Nigeria Determined to finish better than the third position they reached in the last Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), the Zambian women’s national team Copper Queens will play two international friendly matches against Thailand and China during this month’s FIFA international women’s window. But the team will not be with its talismanic Barbra Banda and ...
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