By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist A solitary second have goal scored by winger Opeyemi Esther Ajakaye in the 80th minute at Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Saturday, saw Nigeria’s U-20 women’s football team, Falconets beat their opponents from Burundi 1-0 to qualify on 2-0 aggregate for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup which will come ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s U20 girls have intensified their training sessions in Abuja ahead of Saturday’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup final qualifying run-out against their counterparts from Burundi, at the MKO Abiola National Stadium. Head Coach Chris Danjuma, who also led the team to the quarter-finals at the last edition of the FIFA U20 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. Women Football Journalist Nigeria is 90 minutes away from qualifying for the 2024 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia later in the year after the national junior women’s team, Falconets beat their opponents from Burundi by a lone goal in the first leg of the African qualifiers double-header played at Azam Stadium Complex in Dar ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria is 90 minutes away from qualifying for the 2024 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia later in the year after the national junior women’s team, Falconets beat their opponents from Burundi by a lone goal in the first leg of the African qualifiers double-header played at Azam Stadium Complex in Dar ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist After a long trip which took the team to Nairobi, Kenya before landing in Tanzanian on Wednesday, the national U-20 women’s football team, Falconets will today start training at Azam Stadium Complex ahead of the crunchy FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup African qualifiers first leg double-header against Burundi scheduled for Sunday, January ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist For diehard supporters of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons it will be very difficult contemplating a scenario Nigeria will not win the next Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) slated for Morocco in 2024. It is four years now since Nigeria won her last WAFCON trophy, this being in 2018 ...

***As Super Eagles seek fourth title in Cote d’Ivoire By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Three-time champions Nigeria have picked a team of 25 players for their onslaught for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title, with Head Coach Jose Peseiro settling for usual suspects in a roster that has three goalkeepers, nine defenders, five midfielders and eight forwards. Captain Ahmed ...

By HarryAwurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja World football-governing body, FIFA has moved the 2024 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup final qualifying round, first leg match between Nigeria and Burundi from Bujumbura to Dar es Salaam in nearby Tanzania, as the world body has deemed the pitch in Bujumbura unfit to host the game. It has also been clarified that following the expansion ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Still basking in the euphoria of Nigeria’s near clean sweep of major prizes at last week’s 2023 CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco especially in the Women’s Category, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has revealed that the football house under his watch has devised ways to maintain Nigeria’s ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Women’s Football Aficionado ….Continued from yesterday However, the final seal of approval for women’s football to have tap root in Nigeria was given in  1989 when the federal government through the Ministry of Social Development, Youth and Sports approved the request of National Sports Commission (NSC) to include women’s football as one of the events of the ...