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World football –governing body, FIFA, has once more emphasised its zero tolerance for third party and political interference in the affairs of its Member Associations, declaring unambiguously that such would, without fail, always attract heavy sanctions from the world body, including the suspension of the affected Member Association. In an official correspondence dated Tuesday,  February 9, 2021 and addressed to ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Super Falcons Captain to the last FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France,  Desire Ugochi Oparanozie is the surprise omission in the list of 23 players the new coach Randy Waldrum invited for the fifth edition of the Turkish Women’s Cup which will hold in Antalya from February 15 to 24, 2021. The is expected to land ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Veteran QuarterBack, Tom Brady steered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a comfortable 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to extend his record for Super Bowl wins to seven. In his first season after a glittering 20-year spell with the New England Patriots, the evergreen quarterback helped Tampa Bay become the first team to play a Super ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor in Chief The death of former Super Eagles Assistant Coach and ex-NEPA FC of Lagos handler, Joseph Bassey Eric popularly known as Joe Erico has thrown Female Football Interest Group (FFIG) and the entire women’s football fraternity into mourning. This much was confirmed earlier today by the Secretary General of FFIG, Comrade Dapo Sotiminu who said the ...

Nigeria championship’s second tier, the Nigeria National League, will commence its 2020/2021 Season on Saturday, 30th January, 2021. This decision was reached at the Annual General Meeting of the league, which held in the Ebonyi State capital, Abakaliki on Friday. Chairman of the NNL and Member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Senator Obinna Joseph Ogba ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets and U-17 AFCON Five-time world champions zoomed into the final of the West African Fo*otball Union  (WAFU) U-17 Cup Tournament in Lome, Togo on Friday, following a 1-0 win over Group A winners Burkina Faso at the Stade Kegue. Victory means the Golden Eaglets are now not only eligible to battle for the tournament’s ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief The need to play in a bigger club was the motivating factor for Super Falcons rising star, Rasheedat Ajibade to switch allegiance to Spanish giants, Athletico Madrid Feminino. The former FC Robo of Lagos forward, Ajibade had few days ago  joined the Spanish women’s football league top side, Athletico on a two-year contract. Ajibade made public her ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Almost one year of inactivity, the Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) finally resumed Sunday after several postponement. The elite football has been in comatose following the suspension of football activities in Nigeria and across the world at the  outbreak of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But football activities in other climes quickly resumed while Nigerian league organisers and ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief The League Management Company (LMC) has confirmed December 27 as the commencement date for the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) 2020/2021 season. The league organiser said the commencement date was arrived at after consultations with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the participating football clubs of the NPFL and Redstrike Media Group UK, the NPFL commercial rights holders ...

Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Even as the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) is yet to kick off, the organisers, League Management Company (LMC) has said the winner of the competition will cart home a handsome cash amount of N75m. Sportsrevelation reports that N50m for the first Runner Up will receive the sum of N50m while  N35m willbgo to the Third ...