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From Harry Awurumibe, Casablanca Defending champions South Africa laboured to a 1-1 draw against Tanzania in their second match of Group C at Honor Stadium in Oudja on Friday night. Desperate Tanzania still hurting from the opening 0-1 loss to Mali after the Twiga Stars missed their leader-pitch general Opa Clement went in front early when the rare talent, whose ...

By  Harry Awurumibe,  Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist After beginning their 10th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title chase with an impressive 3-0 bashing of Tunisia, the Super Falcons have deservedly got a day off to enable the players recover fully from the rigours of the opening match played at Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Sunday evening. Prompt ...

By Harry Awurumibe Editor-in-Chief A fourth minute strike by six-time African Player of the Year Asisat Oshoala steered the Super Falcons to a comfortable 3-0 victory over their Tunisian counterparts as the nine-time champions got their challenge for a 10th continental title smoothly off the ground in Casablanca on Sunday. Rinsola Babajide, from the left side of the field, floated ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Nine-time African champions Nigeria’s Super Falcons overwhelmed their Tunisia opponents in what would have been a complete rout if the Nigerians had scored the many chances that came their way to start their quest for the 10th Women’s Africa Cup Of Nations (WAFCON) title chase with a scintillating 3-0 thrashing of Tunisia in the Group B opening ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor, Abuja Bureau Host country Morocco bounced back from the brink of defeat to snatch a heartwarming 2-2 draw in the opening match of the 13th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) played at Olympic Stadium in Rabat. Reigning African Best Player of the Year, Women, Barbra Banda put the Copper Queens in front in just 2′ ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. I Women Football Journalist Twenty-four hours to the kick-off of the 13th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), formerly known as the African Women Championship (AWC), the entire African continent, especially ardent football followers and women’s game in particular owe a huge gratitude to the foresight of past leadership  of the Confederation of African Football ...

Nine-time champions Nigeria loom larger than any other participant as the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals begin in the Kingdom of Morocco on Saturday.  Winners of the inaugural edition that their country hosted in 1998, the Super Falcons also took home the diadem in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018, and look forward to the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.I Women’s Football Journalist After one week and two days of training camp in Mohammedia, Nigeria’s Super Falcons will depart their Novotel Mohamedia temporary abode this morning for the bustling City of Casablanca, venue of their three group matches. Prompt News exclusively gathered that the 24-player roster, technical crew led by the head coach Justine Madugu, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Before 1990, not much was known or heard about women’s football at the continental level as only a few countries in Africa actually had organised women’s football structure, a situation which may have forced the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to pay little attention to the development of the women’s game in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has opted to extend the tenure of the present boards of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Nigeria National League (NNL) and the Nigeria Nationwide League One (NLO) till the end of the tenure of the present NFF administration headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau (MON).  The ...