PREVIEW: NIGERIA WOMEN PREMIER LEAGUE
The Nigeria Women Premier Football League last weekend recorded two away wins.The first was in the star match of the week played at the ancient kingdom of Benin City where the visiting Ibom Angels...
View ArticleDolphins grab former Senegal captain
Xavier MendyFormer Captain of Senegal’s U23 national team, Xavier Mendy has signed a one year deal with Dolphins.Mendy who last played for ASFA Yennega of Burkina Faso told naijafootball247.com that he...
View ArticleFederation set for elections
NFF president, Aminu MaigariAmoni Biambo, a Port Harcourt based business man will head the recently inaugurated Nigeria Football Federation electoral committee.He was saddled with the responsibility of...
View ArticleGiwa FC, Nembe City get conditions to return to League
The Emergency Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation on Monday heard the appeals of both Giwa FC and Nembe City FC, regarding their non-registration for the 2013/2014 NPFL season, and handed out...
View ArticleKano Pillars comply with financial regulations
Kano Pillars is the first club in the League to comply with the Nigeria Professional Football League 2013/14 registration requirement of providing a financial performance guarantee.The Club in a letter...
View Article“Super Eagles messed me up”- Siasia
Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has finally opened up on his relationship with “star” players in the national team.Siasia was sacked after the national team failed to qualify for the Africa...
View ArticleCrown get paid ahead of Sharks battle
The management of Crown Football Club has off-set bonuses of players and officials of the team ahead of the game against Sharks in Port Harcourt on Saturday.The Chief Operating Officer of the Club,...
View ArticleLeon Balogun Drops Crutches
Newly capped Super Eagles defender, Leon Balogun, has revealed that he has dropped the crutches he was using to aide movement since he got injured in the international friendly between Nigeria and...
View ArticleFans vote Ideye as best player
Fans of Dynamo Kyiv voted Super Eagles’ player, Brown Ideye as best performer in the Ukrainian FA Cup game against Metalist.Forty five percent of the votes in the Supporter’s poll went to Brown Ideye...
View ArticleSuper Eagles missing XI
Every World Cup year at this time, the debate comes up on who should be in a country’s team to the Mundial.This debate is not peculiar to Nigeria.In 1994, the Cameroonians argued over whether 39 year...
View ArticleOsaze, Uche make World Cup shortlist
Ikechukwu Uche and OSaze Odemwingie have made the forty man shortlist by Nigeria’s manager, Stephen Keshi for World Cup preparations.Both players had been frozen out of the team so at least one year,...
View ArticleRangers International and the three game ultimatum
As is characteristic with Nigerian football, managers press the panic button when it seems things are not going right with their team.Enugu based Rangers International have not won a trophy anywhere in...
View ArticleNigerian League Bloggers pick March winners
Akwa United defender, Nnamso Edo and his coach, Patrick Udoh, have been named the League Bloggers Awards (LBA) Player and Manager respectively for the month of March.Both men were outstanding in the...
View ArticleSchool children demand peace in Nigeria
Young School children, in commemoration of the United Nations day on Sports for Peace and Development in Nigeria, played a 'football match for peace' on Friday April 4.The match was played between LEA...
View ArticleBosso gets N5m performance bonus
Abia Warriors head coach, Ladan Bosso says he will receive a performance bonus of two million naira (about $11,700) if he can take the club to play in the CAF Confederation Cup next year.Ladan Bosso...
View ArticleMIKEL : THE DEEP BLUE SEA, THE DEVIL & THE SAVING GRACE
By Kobi OkoyeTHE DEEP BLUE SEA“If you stand still in football for a moment, you’ll move backwards”. Words of a silver haired wily old-fox called Sir Alex Ferguson. This statement embodies everything...
View ArticleNigeria to know AFCON opponents on Sunday
The draw for the Final Round of Qualifiers of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2015 takes place at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo on Sunday 27th April, from 12:30hours GMT.The Orange Africa Cup...
View ArticleAFCON 2015: Nigeria get South Africa again
Just like in the 2010 World/ AFCON Qualifiers, Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play against South Africa as both teams try to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco next year.Champions, Nigeria...
View ArticleStephen Keshi and locker room control
This piece has taken a long time coming and I have been thinking and doing my bit of research on the Super Eagles situation and why certain players have been “kicked” out of the team.Players like Osaze...
View ArticleNNL ADJUSTS WEEK-14/15 MATCH SCHEDULES
The Nigeria National League (NNL) has tinkered with the league fixtures after the postponement following the involvement of most of the clubs in the state Challenge Cup finals.Consequently, some of...
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