Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau Determined to curb the spread of the novel Coronavirus pandemic which is yet to record a casualty in Nigeria, the Federal Government today ordered the indefinite  postponement of the much advertised National Sports Festival code-named Edo 2020.    This piece of information was made public today in Abuja by Minister of Sports and Youth Development, ...

Harry Awurumibe, in Lagos Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team, Flamingos have embarked on two weeks break after eliminating the hapless Guinea Syli Starlets from the FIFA U-17 World Cup African qualifiers in Lagos  at the weekend on a 11-2 goals aggregate score.    The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) had asked the players and officials of the Flamingos on Sunday to ...

Harry Awurumibe, in Lagos Nigeria versus Ghana signposts the biggest fixture of the final round of the FIFA U-17  Women’s World Cup India 2020 African qualifiers slated for  May 1 to 17.    Flamingos were ruthless against hapless Guinean Syli Starlets in the just concluded first round of the qualifiers. Nigeria white-washed Guinea 6-1 away in Conakry and hit them ...

Harry Awurumibe, Live in Lagos Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team, Flamingos this evening hit hapless Guinea’s Syli Starlets 5-1 in the FIFA Women’s World Cup African qualifier return leg first round match played at Agege stadium in Lagos.   Nigeria had a fortnight ago beaten Guinea 6-1 away in Conakry in the first leg tie and has thus qualified for ...

Harry Awurumibe, Live in Lagos Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team, Flamingos are set to dump out opponents, Guinea from the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup African qualifiers tomorrow in Lagos.   The Guinean team arrived Lagos yesterday evening  ahead of the second leg of the first round of the qualifier tie slated at Agege stadium in Lagos.    PromptNews has ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja, Bureau The Director-General/Chief Executive of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF),Sir.Joseph Ari today in Abuja called for inter-agencies synergy and collaborations to tackle the unemployment scourge in Nigeria. He spoke at the 1st National Skills Summit held today (Thursday), March 12, 2020, at the Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Wuse Abuja. “It is with great ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, Falconets today in Abuja played out a barren draw with the visiting Nasarawa Amazons football club in a friendly tie hosted at FIFA Goal Project pitch at Package B of Abuja National Stadium. The match which the acting Head Coach, Moses Aduku and his coaching crew used to test the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, AbujaBureau Zambian senior women’s football team, Copper Queens this afternoon in Lusaka did the unexpected by dumping Cameroon’s Indomitable Lionesses out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Women’s Football event this summer. Two splendid goals by Mary Mwakapila in the10′ and another by Hellen Mubanga in the 45′ propelled the hard-fighting Zambians to overhaul the Lionesses who came ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau With three months to the expiration of his current coaching contract with Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr is sure of continuing on the job. This much has been confirmed by both the employee and the employers, in this case Rohr and NFF, hence both are working in harmony to ensure ...

Harry Awurumibe,Head, Abuja Bureau Rising star, Yemisi Samuel’s  hat-trick, a brace from Rofiat Imuran and an early minute goal scored by forward, Chinyere Kalu ensured that the Flamingos wallop harpless Guinea 6-1 in the first leg of the first round of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup African qualifier match played in the Guinean capital city of Conakry.   Kalu started ...