News

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief It was a game won by experience rather than determination as Nigeria’s hard fighting D’Tigress early Tuesday lost by a single digit to highly rated Team USA by 72-81 points in a game the Nigerians put up an impressive performance. Although D’Tigress were rated lower to their opponents in the World Ranking, the encounter was one ...

Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Two goals in each half of the match ensured that Nigeria’s women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels beat Hasaacas Ladies of Ghana 2-0 in the first match of the West African Football Union (WAFU- B) tournament holding from June 24 to August 5, 2021, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Rivers Angels goalscorers were Maryann Ezenagu ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The sole African representatives in the Tokyo Olympics women’s football event, Zambia bounced back from the humiliation of the first match to play out a respectable 4-4 draw with China in the second match of Group F on Saturday. Also, Zambian senior women’s football team’s Captain, Barbara Banda have continued to cover ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels Football Club have arrived Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, venue of the maiden CAF Women’s Champions League  West Africa Zone B tournament holding from June 24 to August 5, 2021. A contingent of 56 made up of players, coaching crew, backroom staff and Rivers states government officials ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The greatest surprise of the opening day of Tokyo Olympics was the 3-0 massacre of reigning FIFA Women’s World Cup Champions, United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) by Sweden on Wednesday as women’s football took the center stage in Japan. For the Team USA, it was a day the players will live to regret as ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No 1 Women’s Football Journalist Expectedly, Africa’s sole representative at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Zambia suffered a crushing defeat in the hands of the Dutch as the Zambians were walloped 10-3 by Netherlands in their  Group F opening match as women’s football took the center stage. Infact, the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup beaten finalist, Netherlands ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Expectedly, Coaches of Nigeria’s senior Basketball teams, D’Tigers and D’Tigress have released their final 12-man rosters, ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After one month of close camping in Sacramento and Las Vegas, United States of America (USA), D’Tigers’ American Head Coach, Mike Brown, in his wisdom picked no fewer than eight National Basketball Association ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau With Nigeria’s men and women football teams unable to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics football event, four African countries are in the race for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals on display at the Summer Games which unofficially starts in Tokyo on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 with Japan taking on Canada in the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Five home-based Super Falcons out of the 26 invited by Coach Randy Waldrum and a handful of backroom staff  who left Lagos aboard Ethiopian Airlines arrived Austrian capital, Vienna on Thursday evening to begin a week plus one day training camp as part of the team’s elaborate preparations for both the Aisha ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The organizers of the forthcoming CAF Women’s Champions League  West African qualifying competition, WAFU-B Secretariat in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, has officially informed  Member Associations (MA) about the new date of the tournament. According to a  letter to Member Associations signed by Boureima Balima, Executive Director, WAFU-B, obtained by Sportsrevelation, the competition will now ...