Harry Awurumibe,  Abuja. Barcelona’s 16-year-old starlet Ansu Fati was granted Spanish citizenship earlier today (Friday), a government spokeswoman said, meaning he will be able to represent Spain at international level. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet approved a request made by the justice minister to give the Guinea-Bissau-born forward Spanish citizenship during its weekly meeting, the spokeswoman said. Fati was ...

Harry Awurumibe. A FIFA delegation visited Tehran on Friday to discuss allowing female spectators into football matches, the official news agency IRNA reported, days after a public row over a female fan who killed herself. “The FIFA delegation first visited the sports ministry and talked to officials and the football federation on the presence of women in (Tehran’s) Azadi stadium,” ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Sports and Youth Development minister, Sunday Akin Dare has said that he will continue to work together with the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to ensure that football does not suffer despite its leadership undergoing government agency’s procedural examination. Speaking to the State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council ...

Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Akin Dare has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will host the sportsmen and women who did the country proud at international competitions recently. Dare who addressed the State House Press Corps in Abuja today in the company of Information minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Works Housing minister, Babatunde ...

Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Akin Dare has disclosed that a whopping sum of N1.2 billion is required for the maintenance of the federal government-owned stadia. This much was revealed by the minister while briefing State House Correspondents today in Abuja after the second Federal Executive Council (FEC). He said that most of ...

The Nigeria Football Federation is working hard at sealing a match with an African team for the Super Eagles, after announcing on Monday night that the three –time African champions will play Brazil in a friendly in Singapore on Sunday 13th October. Nigeria and Brazil will tango in a much –anticipated encounter at the Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore on ...

Harry Awurumibe Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie is among the early birds as the team’s Abuja camp has come alive today with the arrival of many of the home- based professional players invited to camp by the Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifier match between Nigeria and Cote d Ivoire. Among the early birds at ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja To ensure that Nigeria’s Super Falcons qualify for       Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women’s football tournament, the team’s Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby has invited no fewer than 37 players ahead of the third round of the African qualifying ties between Nigeria and the senior women national team of Cote d’Ivoire which comes up in a fortnight. According ...

Harry Awurumibe World football ruling body, FIFA has stated that the bidding countries for the hosting right of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final are not allowed to also bid to host the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup final at the same time. Instead they are required to submit yet another bid different from the one they submitted ...

Harry Awurumibe with additional report from thenff.com, Abuja. Apparently happy with the winning streaks of all the national football teams including female teams, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has given thumbs up to the team’s. Specifically,  the NFF has praised the performance of the U-23 national team, Olympic Eagles better known as Dream Team in qualifying for the 3rd Africa U23 ...