By Harry Awurumibe,A frica’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria may be a top country in women’s football in Africa, but that is only at the national team level as the performance of her clubsides in the Five-year old continental club competition named CAF Women’s Champions League (CAFWCL) is nothing to write home about as clubs from South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja It is no longer news that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has made a decision by picking Morocco and Al Hilal Ladies football club of Saudi Arabia forward, Ghizlane Chebbak as the winner of the coveted CAF African Women’s Footballer of the Year 2025 title. At an elaborate CAF Awards ceremony held on Wednesday, November ...

*For commercial viability, sustainable growth By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in- Chief,  Abuja Apparently dissatisfied with  the structural defects in the development and management of football in Nigeria, renowned FIFA-licensed intermediary, Ayodele Thomas, has tasked the Chairman of National Sports Commission (NSC) Mallam Shehu Dikko to urgently embark on structural reforms that will reposition Nigerian football for sustainable growth, global competitiveness, and ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor,  Abuja Bureau Nigeria’s dream of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup final in the United States of America (USA), Canada and Mexico is still alive as the Super Eagles walloped Gabon 4-1 in the first semi-final match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Play-off decided this evening at Prince Héritier Moulay El Hassan Sports Complex ...

By Harry Awurumibe In less than 48 hours from the time of this report, the battle to earn the sole ticket to represent Africa in next year’s intercontinental play-off mini-tournament in Mexico will start as Nigeria’s senior male football team Super Eagles play the match of their lives in the first semi-final match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ...

By Harry Awurumibe Three years after claiming their first-ever bronze medal at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India after defeating Germany 3-2 on penalties, Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team nicknamed the Flamingos, have continued to wobble and fumble out of two successive editions of the global junior women’s football tournament. Nigeria claimed her first-ever bronze medal at the ...