By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Super Eagles of Nigeria beat Bafana Bafana of South Africa 4-2 in penalties to reach the African Cup of Nations finals. It was a match South Africans purposely dragged to penalty shootout believing that they have advantage over Nigeria after they eliminated Cape Verde in the quarter-final tie thanks to goalkeeper Ronwen Williams who ...

** As History Favours Super Eagles over Bafana Bafana By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja As Africans and the entire football followers across the globe wait with bated breath for the start of the first semi-final match of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) Cotè d Ivoire 2023 which pitched two African giants Nigeria and South Africa, Super Eagles are condemned ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Chairman of Anambra Football Association, Chikelue Iloenyosi has received a tacit support of the former President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Melvin Pinnick for his emphasis on the grassroots football development in his state. According to Iloenyosi popularly called “General” by his admirers, Pinnick is so far impressed with his performance in office ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist February 1, 2024 will remain indelible in the memory of the reigning CAF Best African Player  (Women), Asisat Lamina Oshoala after she sealed a big transfer move to emerging United States (US) National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) outfit, Bay Football Club, from European champions, FC Barcelona Femení, on permanent basis, for an ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist FIFA World Cup bronze-medallists, Flamingos of Nigeria were in killer mood on Sunday as they thrashed their counterparts from Central African Republic (CAR) 6-0 in the first leg, second round of the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup African qualifiers match played at Stade de la Reunification in Douala, Cameroon. It took ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief , Abuja                                                      The fearsome Nigeria juggernaut rolled with pomp into the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals on Friday, after another self-assured performance that knocked ambitious Angola out of the competition ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist FIFA World Cup bronze-medallists, Flamingos of Nigeria who arrived Cameroon yesterday will today begin training at Stade de la Reunification in Douala where they will take on their counterparts from Central African Republic (CAR) on Sunday in a second round, first leg African qualifiers of the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in- Chief, Abuja The Confederation of African Football has announced the participating teams for the football event of the 2024 African Games, with Nigeria’s men and women’s U-20 teams, the Flying Eagles and the Falconets, taking automatic spots. Ghana will host the 2023 African Games, which is the 13th edition, from March 8 to 23 across three ...

By  Harry Awurumibe with reports from thenff.com The Super Eagles have vowed to recreate their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16 defeat of Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in Alexandria, when both teams clash in Abidjan on Saturday at the same stage in the ongoing 34th edition of the competition. That day, at the Alexandria Stadium in Egypt, the ...

By Harry Awurumibe with reports from thenff.com History, pedigree, current form and turf familiarity are factors weighing heavily in favour of the Super Eagles as they confront the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in the Round of 16 at the 34th Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday. Five-time champions Cameroon prosecuted their group phase games in Yamoussoukro, and have now arrived ...