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 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The 19th CAF Safe Stadium Initiative Workshop being organised by the Confederation of African (CAF) Safety and Security Department headed by Dr. Christian Emeruwa has ended in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The two-day workshop hosted by Egypt Football Association (EFA) came to an end on Friday with the award of certificates to successful participants ...

***As 11 Northern states fail to participate in football fiesta By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau No fewer than 33 women’s football clubs that registered to take part in the women’s category of the 2025 President Federation Cup  National Draw scheduled for Lagos on March 12, 2025, have qualified for the Round of 32 without kicking a ball, Prompt News exclusively ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief, Abuja No fewer than 74 clubs will participate in the states final of the 2025 President Federation Cup, which will hold across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) this weekend, Prompt News reports. Amongst the clubs that will take part in the 2025 President Federation Cup states final are traditional heavyweights like Nigeria Professional ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor -in-Chief, Abuja In a bid to improve the financial state of the football house to enable it fulfill its monetary obligations to the numerous national teams  especially the Super Eagles, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Carloha, the exclusive dealer and franchise holder of Chery vehicles in Nigeria on Wednesday signed a partnership agreement that will ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja A late minute penalty goal scored by John Bassey in the 88th minute and a first half strike by Chukwuma Agor in the 30th minute ensured that Heartland Football Club defeated hard-fighting Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan 2-1 in Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Week 24 match played at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri on ...