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By Harry Awurumibe Three years after claiming their first-ever bronze medal at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India after defeating Germany 3-2 on penalties, Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team nicknamed the Flamingos, have continued to wobble and fumble out of two successive editions of the global junior women’s football tournament. Nigeria claimed her first-ever bronze medal at the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed Fatou Ngum from Gambia as the centre referee for the first leg of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 qualifier between Benin Republic and and Nigeria scheduled for October 24, 2025, at the Stade de Kégué, Lomé in Togo, Prompt News ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor -in-Chief,  Abuja Never in recent memory  has a football match generated a lot of interest,  eliciting great debates and prompting mathematical calculations laced with several ‘ifs’, yet nobody can confidently predict how the group will end on the final Match Day than the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifier ties between host Nigeria and Group ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja As uncertainties continue to surround the Elections into the board of the Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria, the National Sports commission, NSC, has been strongly commended for upholding the principle of transparency, due process and fair hearing among all stakeholders. This is according to Omowunmi Kafilat Olalere, a key Gymnastics stakeholder and a Presidential candidate for the ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria’s U’20 women’s football team Falconets, pipped hosts Rwanda’s She-Amavubi 1-0 in a 2026 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifying match in Kigali on Sunday Sportsrev reports. Both teams fought hard on the pitch of the Kigali-Pele Stadium, located in the Nyamirambo district of the city, but there was no breakthrough ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Interim chairperson of United Ex-Super Falcons (Worldwid), the umbrella body of retired national women’s team players, Mrs. Patience Avre-Odeli has commended the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the prompt payment of the thirty percent (30%) of the One Million Dollars ($1 million) (approximately ₦1.5 billion) prize money for winning the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist In line with its policy of transparency, the Ibrahim Musa Gusau led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has fulfilled its agreement with the Super Falcons by prominently paying the team the thirty percent (30%) of the One Million Dollars ($1 million) (approximately ₦1.5 billion) prize money for winning the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief, Abuja United States of America (USA) President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held on 5 December 5, 2025 at Washington’s Kennedy Center in District of Colombia (DC) even as he suggested he may even take part himself, Prompt News reports. The US president made the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Four-time CAF Best Player of the Year and Africa’s record goalscorer, Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha has risen in support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for honouring the victorious members of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team who won the 10th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title in Morocco last month with national awards ...

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