With just over two weeks to the kick-off of Africa’s biggest premier women’s football competition, the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024, the Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) and the Local Organizing Committee have confirmed tickets will go on sale this week. The first phase will open on Thursday, 26 June 2025 for the VISA presale (only ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja  Reigning Africa’s best goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie had a game to remember forever as Nigeria’s Super Falcons provided both flair and steel in a 0-0 draw with hosts Portugal in a pre-WAFCON friendly match in Lisbon on Monday.  The nine-time African champions, aspiring boldly for a 10th title, only arrived in Portugal less than 24 hours before ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Super Falcons of Nigeria and Portugal’s “Seleção das Quinas” could not find a winning formular over each other as they battled to a 0-0 draw in their international friendly pla at the Estàdio José Gomes in Amadora near Lisbon on Monday night. It was a repeat of their meeting in June 2021 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Bragging rights will be  at stake this evening when Portugal’s senior women’s football team “A Seleção das Quinas” or “The Team of the Escutcheons” takes  on the Super Falcons of Nigeria in a pre-tournament international friendly match at Estádio José Gomes, Amadora near Lisbon  billed for 7pm Nigerian time. The encounter which ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Super Falcons’preparations for the 13th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) holding in Morocco from July 5 to 26, 2025, will kick off later this morning when the team will embark on a light workout to shake off the jet lag after a long journey from Abuja to Casablanca and another one ...

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

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s senior women’s football team Super Falcons have arrived in Casablanca, Morocco, in the first leg of the trip to Lisbon for a training camp in Portugal in preparation for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), Prompt News reports. The Nigerian delegation made up of 10 players, coaches, and backroom ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,Abuja Determined to make a good impression on their retun to Africa’s biggest women’s football competition in Morocco next month, Ghana’s Black Queens boosted their pre-Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) records with an impressive 3-1 victory over the Scorchers of Malawi in friendly match played at the Ziaida Complex in Benslimane, Morocco on Saturday, Prompt News ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed profound shock and grief at the death early on Friday morning of retired technocrat and one-time Chief of Staff to the Minister of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Abba Abdullahi Yola.  He was reported to have given up the ghost after a period of illness.  Yola, a highly-experienced civil servant, served at various times as Zonal ...

The National Leadership of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has commiserated with the family of the late sports icon, Alhaji Abba Abdullahi Yola, the people of Kano state and the entire sports fraternity in the country. In a statement signed by the Association’s Secretary-General, Amb. Ikenna Okonkwo, Friday, the SWAN President Mr. Isaiah Benjamin paid glowing tribute to Abba ...