Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Determine to fill the vacant management positions in the football house, the Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) which met via video conference on Monday, August 10, 2020 to deliberate on important issues in Nigerian Football has instructed its Technical and Development Committee (TDC) to work in tandem with the NFF Integrity Office to submit ...
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FIFA Covid-1 Package: NFF releases breakdown for men’s, women’s Relief Fund
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Apparently to show its transparency in handling the finances of the football body, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has released the breakdown of the distribution of FIFA’s Covid-19 Relief Fund for restart of men’s and women’s football in Nigeria. Specifically, NFF provided details of disbursements of the sum of $500,000 dedicated fund for women’s football in ...
Read More »Nigeria, B/Faso FIFA qualifier tie: Falconets wait on FG, Flamingos too
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Barely three weeks to the first leg first round of the FIFA U-20 Women World Cup African qualifier match between Nigeria and Burkina Faso billed for September 4 or 5 in Ouagadougou, the national U-20 team. Falconets are waiting for words from the Federal Government to know if they will resume camping in Abuja ahead of ...
Read More »Rivers Angels, Heartland Babes, FC Robo, others to benefit from FIFA Covid-19 largess
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Respite must have come the way of struggling football clubs including men’s and women’s professional, amateur, youth and grassroots teams through the USD 1.5 billion available to football community. This was contained in the statement released on Wednesday after the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA)’s groundbreaking Coronavirus (Covid -19) Relief Plan reached a major milestone ...
Read More »Finally, Bureau of FIFA Council approves $1.5b Covid-19 Relief Plan regulation
Harry Awurumube, Editor, Abuja The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA)’s groundbreaking Coronavirus (Covid -19) Relief Plan reached a major milestone as the Bureau of the FIFA Council approved the plan’s regulations. Under the terms of the COVID-19 Relief Plan, USD 1.5 billion is being made available to support all 211 FIFA member associations and the six confederations to assist ...
Read More »2021 FIFA U-20/U-17 Women’s World Cup: Falconets, Flamingos to open camp for Burkina Faso, Ghana
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja With less than one month to the first leg first round of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup African qualifier tie between Nigeria and Burkina Faso slated for Ouagadougou on September 4 or 5, Nigeria’s Falconets are expected to return to camp to prepare for the crunchy encounter barring any hiccups occasioned by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. ...
Read More »Super Falcons receive 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup largesse
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Super Falcons players and officials are currently grinning from ear to ear as they have finally received their 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup participation money. Sportsrevelation exclusively gathered that Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has already disbursed the prize money to the 21 players, coaching crew led by ex- Super Falcons Technical Adviser, Thomas Dennerby and backroom ...
Read More »Covid-19: NFF set to support league clubs for season’s campaign
The Nigeria Football Federation will provide support for Clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League, Nigeria National League, Nigeria Women Football League and the Nigeria Nationwide League for next season’s football campaign, as a result of challenges that have arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic, says the Federation’s President, Amaju Melvin Pinnick. During a live session on NFF’s official Instagram ...
Read More »NFF okays end of 2019/2020 leaque season, FG to approve September start of new season
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has approved the end of the 2019/ 2020 Nigeria Professional Football Leaque (NPFL) season with the names of the Top 3 (three) clubs on the NPFL final PPG table as at ...
Read More »FIFA windfall: Club solidarity funding from France 2019 final report out
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja To mark the one-year anniversary of the last FIFA Women World Cup France 2019 which the USA won, their fourth trophy, FIFA has this week published the final report on the solidarity funding distributed to clubs from the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019. No fewer than 822 professional and grassroots clubs including Rivers Angels FC ...
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