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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has selected first-choice goalkeeper Ifeanyi Harcourt, defender and captain Daniel Bameyi, midfielder Sulaiman Alabi Jojo and forward Kparobo Arierhi among a squad of 24 for this year’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt. The tournament gets underway in 10 days. Defenders Adamu Maigari and Emmanuel Chukwu (based in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation and the Nigeria Premier Football League on Thursday paid condolence visit to the family of deceased NPFL match commissioner, Mohammed Sani Abdul, who died on Wednesday, 9th April 2025, on his way back to Maiduguri from Jos where he had gone to commission an NPFL match.  Abdul, who ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The Nigeria Football Federation has decried statements in a section of the social media that the football-ruling body was indebted to former Nigeria captain and coach, ‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu, who died on Saturday.  Reacting to one statement on social media that claimed NFF was owing the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations-winning team captain the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Former governor of old Anambra state, Chief Jim Nwobodo, and ex-Rangers and Green Eagles players have visited the Enugu residence of Nigeria’s football icon Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu affectionately known as Chairman to show their solidarity to his immediate family. Prompt News reports that Nwobodo, who arrived at the Trans Ekulu house of late Chukwu on ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja With just hours to go before the Final Draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2025, the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has unveiled a striking new logo and trophy for the continental youth showpiece. The new visual identity marks a powerful step in celebrating the journey of Africa’s brightest ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Nigeria will now have to contend with Morocco, Kenya and Tunisia in the group phase of the 24th Africa U20 Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt, 27th April – 18th May this year. At the redraw conducted in the headquarters of the Egypt Football Association in Cairo on Sunday, Egypt and South Africa, who ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                               ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja President General of Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC), Dr. Rafiu Ladipo has joined eminent Nigerians in mourning one of the country’s greatest footballers past and present, Chief Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu, Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), who joined his ancestors yesterday in his home town Obe, Nkanu Local Government Area of Enugu state. ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Still in the state of mourning over the demise of the club’s icon player, coach and administrator,  Christian Chukwuemeka Chukwu, MON, whose passing to the great beyond was announced yesterday, Rangers International of Enugu today lost by two goals to nil to bitter rivals Heartland Football Club of Owerri in their much-advertised Oriental Derby played at ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja                                                                                                               ...