By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has once again released the fixtures of the next round of the 2025 President Federation Cup with the encounter between Plateau United of Jos and Rangers Int’l of Enugu billed for Area 3 playground  Abuja  on Wednesday as the Star Match. Going by the fixtures released by the football-ruling body, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The seminar for the General Secretaries of CAF West Zone B, as well as representatives from Cameroon and Liberia, opened on Monday morning at the Zone’s headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. After the welcome address delivered by the Executive Director, Mr. Philippe Tchere, the official opening of the proceedings took place online under the chairmanship ...

By Harry  Chidozie Awurumibe,  Sports Journalist There is no gainsaying the fact that Chief Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu, (MFR) was a hugely talented footballer of his generation who bestrode Nigeria and Africa’s football scene like a colossus with his individual brilliance, and great performances on the pitch while his leadership qualities as the captain of his boyhood club, Rangers International of ...

…As Gusau, Soname shower naira on team By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria inched closer to an eighth appearance at the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals on Saturday after a brace by Queen Joseph and one each by Zainab Raji and substitute Aishat Animashaun left Algeria’s U17 girls bedraggled in Ikenne-Remo. There were bold hints of a massacre early ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in,Chief  Abuja The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Royal Air Maroc have concluded a historic strategic partnership granting Morocco’s national airline the status of ‘Official Global Partner’ for Africa’s biggest upcoming football competitions, the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 and the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2024. Prompt News reports ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Journalist Head Coach Bankole Olowookere said on Friday that Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingos, will aspire to win big in their FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup final qualifying round, first leg encounter against their Algerian counterparts on Saturday, in order to reduce the pressure ahead of next week’s return leg duel in North Africa.  “We ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has selected first-choice goalkeeper Ifeanyi Harcourt, defender and captain Daniel Bameyi, midfielder Sulaiman Alabi Jojo and forward Kparobo Arierhi among a squad of 24 for this year’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt. The tournament gets underway in 10 days. Defenders Adamu Maigari and Emmanuel Chukwu (based in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation and the Nigeria Premier Football League on Thursday paid condolence visit to the family of deceased NPFL match commissioner, Mohammed Sani Abdul, who died on Wednesday, 9th April 2025, on his way back to Maiduguri from Jos where he had gone to commission an NPFL match.  Abdul, who ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The Nigeria Football Federation has decried statements in a section of the social media that the football-ruling body was indebted to former Nigeria captain and coach, ‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu, who died on Saturday.  Reacting to one statement on social media that claimed NFF was owing the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations-winning team captain the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Former governor of old Anambra state, Chief Jim Nwobodo, and ex-Rangers and Green Eagles players have visited the Enugu residence of Nigeria’s football icon Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu affectionately known as Chairman to show their solidarity to his immediate family. Prompt News reports that Nwobodo, who arrived at the Trans Ekulu house of late Chukwu on ...