By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief , Abuja To ensure safety in all football stadia across Africa, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) and UNITAR’s International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) jointly have announced the launch of the first United Nations (UN) certified Sport Safety and Security Training and Advanced Education Programme for professionals ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Fatima Tagnaout’s 78 minute goal was all the Atlas Lionesses needed to earn Morocco a historic 1-0 victory over the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in the Match Day 2 of the on-going Lagos 6-Nation Invitational Friendlies played at Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan. This victory is even sweeter as the Moroccans have to ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Two “gifted goals”  late in the game scored by FC Robo of Lagos captain, Gift Monday, saved the day for Nigeria as the Super Falcons laboured to a 2-0 win over the Female Eagles of Mali in the opening match of the Lagos  6-Nation Invitational Friendly Matches holding at Mobolaji Johnson Arena, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist All is set for Nigeria’s Super Falcons and Les Aiglonnes (The Female Eagles) of Mali first match of the much-awaited Lagos 6-Nation Invitational Friendly Matches holding at the refurbished Mobolaji Johnson Arena formerly Onikan Stadium, Lagos Island today. On paper, an encounter between  Falcons and Les Aiglonnes of Mali, is expected to ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief To win the coveted African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon next year, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) must ensure that the Super Eagles get the best preparations and unbiased selection of players to prosecute the competition. This is the candid opinion of former African Footballer of the Year and winner of AFCON trophy with Nigeria ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Super Falcons Head Coach, Randy Waldrum, earlier Tuesday took his team to the field for their first full training session as all but three players have reported to camp. Those who took part in the Tuesday morning training were team captain Asisat Lamina Oshoala of FC Barcelona feminine and all three ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist With the conclusion of the zonal qualifying matches, the first edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League sponsored by Total Energie now has a kick-off date. The competition  which is scheduled to hold in Egypt will be played in the capital,Cairo, from November 5 to 19, according to information posted  on the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s  No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Expectedly, invited countries for the Lagos 6-Nation Invitational  Friendly Matches have arrived Nigeria even as the Radisson Hotel camp of the Super Falcons have continued to swell wlikeith arrival of  overseas-based stars. As at the time of this report, Atlas Lionesses of Morocco who touched down in the early hours of Monday have ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist To ensure that all logistics are ready  for the arrival of the invited players of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons, the backroom staff will arrive camp today (Sunday evening). As earlier reported by Sportsrevelation , the bulk of the 19  overseas-based  invited players of Super Falcons will move into ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Apparently to absolve itself of blame, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it has deferred to FIFA’s own record of 98 caps for Super Eagles’ captain Ahmed Musa, following the nullification of two of the matches he played in which should have made his tally 100. “We defer to FIFA in this regard, so Ahmed ...