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Nigeria, 1973 champions of All Africa Games, will look to win their first gold in men’s football tournament of the African Games when they take on Burkina Faso in the final of the event in Rabat on Friday. The seven-time African champions edged a memorable encounter with Mali in the semi finals, which went into extra time, penalty shoot-out and ...

The delegation of Super Falcons to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics women’s football qualifying match against Algeria in Blida on Wednesday will return to Nigeria on Friday just as the team was hosted by Embassy of Nigeria in Algeria after defeating their host 2-0. African champions Nigeria took a comfortable 2-0 lead into the return leg scheduled for the Agege Stadium, ...

Reliable goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie was at her best to stop crucial penalty kicks as Nigeria’s U-20 women’s team, Falconets emerged champions of the women’s football tournament of the 12th African Games in Rabat on Thursday after a 3-2 penalty shoot-out triumph over their counterparts from Cameroon. The keenly-contested game between two teams that had battled to a 1-1 draw in ...

Harry Awurumibe Still soaked in the euphoria of a  heartwarming 2-0 away victory over their Algerian host in the first leg second round Tokyo 2020 Olympics women’s football qualifier match, the African Champions, Nigeria will leave Bilda this afternoon for Algiers enroute Nigeria. An own goal (og) by Algerian defender, Isma Ouadah in the 15th minut and a long range ...

Harry Awurumibe Reigning African Champion, Nigeria this evening defeated Algeria 2-0 in Bilda in the first leg second round match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament Africa qualifier match even without the armada of foreign-based players like FC Barcelona femine star, Asisat Oshoala. The encounter played at the Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida outside Algiers, the capital ...

The Management of the National Youth Service Corps in the Federal Capital Territory has expressed a keen desire to establish closer co-operation with the Nigeria Football Federation in order to achieve its extra mandate of empowerment of the youth in the country. Speaking during a visit to the General Secretary of NFF, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja ...

   By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s revered women’s football journalist Tomorrow (Wednesday, August 28) in far away Bilda near Algiers, the capital city of  Algeria, the national senior women’s football team of Algeria, The Fennecs will host their Nigerian counterparts in the first leg second round of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament  Africa qualifier match. The Algeria Football ...

Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, will be battling for the gold medal of the 12th African Games in Rabat, Morocco after penalty shoot-out defeat of Mali in the semi finals on Tuesday. Both teams failed to find target in regulation and extra time, with Nigeria captain Abubakar Ibrahim inexplicably failing to convert a penalty kick in the 23rd minute. Penalty ...

Nine-time African champions Nigeria begin their race to the Women’s Football Tournament of next year’s Olympics in Tokyo with a determination to earn an away win over Algeria on Wednesday in order to make the second leg in Lagos next week an easier session. Coach Thomas Dennerby and squad arrived in Algiers on Monday after travelling through Turkey, and had ...

Harry Awurumibe A brace from fast-paced forward,  Cynthia Aku and a late strike from Zainab Olapade was all Falconets of Nigeria needed to brush aside opponents,Algeria in the semi final match of the on-going 12th All Africa Games in Morocco decided this afternoon in Rabat. Aku scored her first of the two goals in the 16th minute when she got ...