This is to respectfully call on Editors/Managers of the nation’s sporting media to send in requests for media accreditation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana of South…
The Nigeria Football Federation considers recent insinuations by a football stakeholder and one-time Chairman of the Gombe State Football Association, Alhaji Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe, that the cordial relationship between the Honourable…
. The new executive team of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (FCT Chapter) on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, MON at the NFF Secretariat. Photo shows Alhaji Gusau…
Wikki Tourists (Bauchi) 0-1 EFCC FC (FCT) Kebbi United (Kebbi) 1-0 Akwa United (Akwa Ibom) El-Kanemi Warriors (Borno) 1-0 Shooting Stars (Oyo) Ikorodu City (Lagos) 1-1 Inter Lagos (Lagos) – Inter Lagos win 5-4 on penalties Kwara United …
The Confederation of African Football has clarified that next year’s Africa U17 Cup of Nations will still have 12 finalists in attendance, as against the minimum of 16 teams being projected by African football enthusiasts. This means that…
Nigeria finished in third place to scoop the bronze medals and book a place at next year’s Africa U17 Cup of Nations after a hard-fought 3-2 defeat of hosts Ghana at the WAFU B U17 Championship on Tuesday. For several days now, there had…
The Nigeria Football Federation and players of the Super Eagles have lambasted a report in an online publication, which claimed that players of the team have not been paid from monies given by the Presidency to the NFF to offset their…
Liberia’s U17 girls will host World Cup bronze medallists, Flamingos of Nigeria at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium, Monrovia on Sunday, 9th June in the first leg of the teams’ FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup African qualification series final…
Global youth football powers Nigeria and Ghana will on Tuesday battle it out for the bronze medals of the ongong WAFU B U17 Championship in Accra, Ghana. Given their pedigree at this level, both nations should have been preparing to test…
The Nigeria Football Federation and players of the Super Eagles have lambasted a report in an online publication, which claimed that players of the team have not been paid from monies given by the Presidency to the NFF to offset their…
Five-time world champions Nigeria and three-time world champions Ghana were eliminated from the WAFU B U17 Championship at the semi-final stage on Saturday, with Burkina Faso getting the better of the host nation and the Baby Elephants of…
Nigeria’s Head Coach, Finidi George, has picked rave-of-the-moment Ademola Lookman, African Player of the Year Victor Osimhen and safe hands Stanley Nwabali among a crop of 23 players who will do battle with South Africa’s Bafana Bafana…
Bendel Insurance (Edo) 0-2 Wikki Tourists (Bauchi) EFCC FC (FCT) 0-0 Edel FC (Anambra) – EFCC win 5-4 on penalties ABS FC (Kwara) 1-2 Kebbi United (Kebbi) Akwa United (Akwa Ibom) 4-1 Zamfara United Feeders (Zamfara) Gombe United (Gombe) 0…
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets sailed majestically into the semi-finals of the ongoing WAFU B U17 Championship in Ghana with a 3-0 whiplash of Togo’s Baby Sparrow Hawks, that catapulted them to the top of group B and set the stage for a last…
World-governing body, FIFA has made changes to the officiating team of the 2026 World Cup qualifying match between Benin Republic and Nigeria which is scheduled for the Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny in the Ivorian capital on Monday, 10th…
Coach Manu Garba has reiterated that Nigeria’s U17 boys will go for a win in Wednesday’s group B final encounter in Accra even though a draw will be good enough to see the five-world champions through to the semi finals. “We are not here…
A number of teams in the top-tier Nigeria Premier Football League countenance exit from this year’s President Federation Cup as the Round of 32 matches hold across the country on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Former champions Lobi…
Senegal got a stunning sucker punch and were thrown out of the race for this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals after hosts Liberia stormed powerfully to a 2-0 win in Monrovia on Sunday to overturn a 1-3 first leg deficit. The Young…
Nigeria joined Burkina Faso at the top of group B of the WAFU B U17 Championship after a lone goal defeat of Niger Republic at the University of Accra Stadium on Sunday. Rapha Adams’ powerful header in the 31st minute was the difference…
Nigeria reached the final round of the African qualification series for this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals after a 6-0 defeat of Burkina Faso at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Saturday evening. Goal-poacher Harmony…
Coach Manu Garba has asserted that he is proud of the Golden Eaglets after Thursday’s scoreless encounter with their Burkina Faso counterparts in the Group B opener of the WAFU B U17 Championship. Five-time champions Nigeria created…
Head Coach Bankole Olowookere has assured that the Nigeria U17 girls have their minds firmly trained on Saturday’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying match against their counterparts from Burkina Faso, and not on the final round of the…
. Sanwo-Olu, Elegbeleye, GTI, Praiz, Solaja also in the running Organizers of the Nigeria Pitch Awards are set to take the ‘uncommon transformation’ city of Uyo by storm with the tenth edition of Nigeria’s longest-running football awards…
Ghanaian official Adaari Abdul Latif will be the referee for Thursday’s WAFU B U17 Championship group B opener between five-time world champions Nigeria and the Burkina Faso U17 boys at the Accra University Stadium. Latif will work with…
Chadian official, Alhadi Allaou Mahamat will be in the centre when the Super Eagles host South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo next month. Mahamat, 38, became an…
The Confederation of African Football on Tuesday declared that all 20 players presented by Nigeria for the WAFU B U17 Championship starting in Accra, Ghana on Wednesday have passed the examination in flying colours. The declaration of…
Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingos, are back in the country following their FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying match against Burkina Faso’s U17 girls in Bamako, Mali on Saturday that ended in a 1-1 draw. Head Coach Bankole Olowookere said…
Nigerian broadcasting icon, Dr. Nasir Danladi Bako has praised the Nigeria Football Federation for settling for former international and ex-Enyimba FC strategist Finidi George as Head Coach of the Super Eagles. The Kogunan Sakwatto, 66,…
. ‘Tough skin’ Finidi pledges six points from Bafana, Cheetahs matches The Honourable Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh on Monday praised the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation for settling for an indigenous…