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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has warned that it would no longer be business as usual for match commissioners and referees in the domestic game, as persons who fail to meet the high standards already put in place will be summarily ejected and sanctioned appropriately. The NFF President made this ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Edito-in-Chief, Abuja Apparently complying with the demand of aggrieved members of Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) for the football governing body in Nigeria to implement the FIFA CIRCULAR 2020 before the start of a new football season, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally constituted its Judicial and Match officiating Committees. The Federation also said that the  Judicial and Match ...

For most Nigerians  especially football followers, the year 2022 will be remembered with mixed feelings in many respects depending on how anyone is assessing it. In keeping with the calendar of human progress, the year 2022 will yield place to the new year, 2023, in the Gregorian calendar hence it had had its time and now assumes its honoured place ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Irrespective of where the pendulum of victory swings to in the second semi final match between Morocco and France at Al Bayt Stadium, Doha  in the on-going FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022, the Moroccan senior football team has already represented the African continent and Arab world as well as their country and families creditablly in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist ….Continued from yesterday While Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc and Pepsi were the first corporate sponsors of the Super Falcons, Nigeria Women’s Football Premier League and Nigeria Women’s Challenge Cup (FA Cup) competitions for four years, Cadbury Nigeria and Julius Berger were the first corporate sponsors to donate cash to NFA (now NFF)  ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Those who still believe that Nigeria  is a force to reckon with in women’s football in Africa at both clubs and national team levels should better wake up from the dream land and accept the current reality that Nigeria has fallen from top to bottom of the ladder.   Although Nigeria still ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Moroccan side ASFAR Club thrashed defending Champions Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies of South Africa 4-0 in the final match of the 2022 CAF Women’s Champions League to emerge new Champions with striker Ibtissam Jraidi’s remarkable hat-trick securing a huge final victory for the host.   Enterprising Fatiman Tagnaout opened scoring for the Moroccan ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’sNo.1 Women Football Journalist Bayelsa Queens football club of Yenegoa has won themselves a bragging right in Africa as one the three top women’s football clubs at the moment as they finished third in the just concluded 2nd CAF Women’s Champions League final in Morocco.     Bayelsa Queens which represented West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone B ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Morocco’s top women’s football club, Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales (ASFAR) on Sunday walloped defending champions, Mamelodi Sundowns women’s football team of South Africa 4-0 in the final of the 2nd CAF Women’s Champions League at Stade Prince Moulay in Rabat.   A second half hat-trick by ASFAR forward, Ibtissam Jharidi ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, Flamingos will arrive Abuja, the nation’s capital city on Wednesday aboard Ethiopian Airlines via Addis Ababa, three days after the team defeated Germany to scoop Bronze medal in the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup final in India.    Prompt News exclusively gathered that the Flamingos will ...