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By Harry Awurumibe,  Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist To avoid any last minute pull out by any player from the forthcoming prestigious international friendly matches between Nigeria and Cameroon during the May/June FIFA women’s international football window, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has contacted the foreign-based Super Falcons players to be invited for the double-header billed to take place on ...

**As football world gathers in Paraguay By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor -in-Chief, Abuja World football ruling body, FIFA President Gianni Infantino is travelling to Saudi Arabia this week during United States’ President Donald Trump’s state visit to the Gulf state while the soccer body’s 211 member federations gather at their annual FIFA Congress being held in Paraguay. Although the agenda for ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor -in-Chief,  Abuja Two-time runners-up Nigeria have again booked their ticket to the FIFA U20 World Cup finals after edging out Cup holders Senegal from the CAF U20 Cup of Nations in Egypt on Monday. In the event, the Flying Eagles hearkened to the charge by NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi on Saturday, for the team ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Ahead of the prestige double-header international friendly matches between Nigeria’s Super Falcons and Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon, there are indications that head coach of the visiting team, Jean-Baptiste Bisseck has concluded plans to invite his ever-reliable attacking midfielder Nchout Njoya Ajara, reliable captain  Aboudi Gabrielle Onguéné and 22 other players he selected ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s intermediate girls football team, Falconets likely opponent in the second round of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Poland 2026 African qualifiers,  Rwanda has taken a bold step to qualify for the next round of the competition after beating their Zimbabwean rivals 2-1 in the first round first leg tie ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s opponent in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Poland 2026 qualifiers, which started on Friday, will be known on May 18, 2025, even as Ivory Coast defeated host Gambia 1-0 in the first leg of the first round of the African qualifiers. Africa’s women’s football power-house Nigeria has been drawn in ...

By Harry Awurumibe with agency reports Women’s football has received yet another impetus as the world football governing body, the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has said that Women’s World Cup will be expanded from 32 to 48 teams, like the men’s competition, starting with the 2031 edition, Prompt News reports. The FIFA Council, after its meeting  on Friday. ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The double-header international friendly matches between the Super Falcons and Indomitable Lionesses during this month’s FIFA women’s international match calendar will be used by both Nigeria and Cameroon to prepare their senior women’s football teams for the forthcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) finals in Morocco. Although Cameroon did not ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria will on Thursday launch their campaign for an eighth Africa U20 title when the Flying Eagles file out against the Junior Carthage Eagles of Tunisia at the 30 June Stadium in Cairo, in the opening match of Group B, according to a press statement from Dr. Ademola Olajire, Director of Media & Communications of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Despite wintry conditions in Blida, on the outskirts of the Algerian capital, Algiers on Friday night, Nigeria’s U17 girls dug their feet into the ground and achieved a scoreless draw that qualified them for this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals. Holding on to a 4-0 first-leg advantage, the 2002 bronze medallists adopted a calm ...