**As 7UP Bottling Co waters the routes By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The organisers of Premium Trust Bank Abuja City International Half Marathon which will hold in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja tomorrow April 20, 2024, Nilayo Sports Management Limited (NSML) have promised that the event will be a pacesetter event for  marathons in Nigeria. This is even as ...

**As NFF holds national draws in Abuja By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief, Abuja                                                  Last year’s runners-up, Enugu Rangers will go up against Kano Pillars in what is indisputably the pick of the men’s Round of 64 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief, Abuja The National Draw for the men’s and women’s versions of this year’s Federation Cup competition will take place on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja. Already, the field for the national competition in the men’s draw has been trimmed to 64 following last week’s Play-off matches that saw the elimination of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor -in-Chief, Abuja Unknown to many Nigerians and even the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) one of the indigenous coaches who applied for the vacant head coach of Super Eagles, Emmanuel Amuneke has taken it upon himself to embark on self-sponsored spying mission on Nigeria’s next two group opponents in the 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers coming ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief , Abuja With the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) set to unveil the name of the new head coach of Super Eagles, another international football administrator has given a vote of confidence to one of the candidates for the plum job, coach Emmanuel Amuneke who he said is “as white as snow” as far as football integrity ...

  By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist                Thirty three years after the introduction of women’s football in the continent, the game is fast taking roots in the four regions of Africa as unknown to many, two of the four top finishers in the last Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The two countries to represent the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the Paris 2014 Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament have booked their tickets to fly the continental flag in France later in the year as Nigeria and Zambia emerged from the final round of the African qualifiers concluded on Tuesday. After ...

** As Nigeria holds South Africa to barren draw in Pretoria By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s Super Falcons returned to the Olympic Games after a 16-year absence after a hard fought barren draw with South Africa’s Banyana Banyana Tuesday night at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria ensured that the West Africans qualified for the 2024 Paris ...

By Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The African proverb which says ‘When the elephants fight, the grass suffers’ could not have been more apt than when Africa’s top two women’s football playing countries, Nigeria and South Africa, clash in the final match of the 2024 Paris Olympics Women’s Football Tournament CAF qualifiers return leg tie billed for Loftus Versfeld ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor- in-Chief, Abuja As Nigerians await the appointment of a new head coach for the senior men’s football team Super Eagles, an international football administrator has advised the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that working as a member of Confederation of African Football (CAF) Technical Study Group (TSG) is a huge advantage for any of the applicants for ...