English Premiership club, Tottenham Hotspur has announced the sack of Coach Jose Mourinho after 17 months of what the club owners considered as a lackluster performance. The 58-year old Mourinho took over as coach in November 2019 and led Spurs to a sixth-place position on the Premier League table... Read more
The NSF is a biennial multi-sport event organized by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Sports Commission for athletes from the 36 States of Nigeria CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 15, 2021/ — Rugby Union returned to the National Sports Festival (NSF) 2020 after a ten-year absence... Read more
Club owners of the Nigeria Women Football League have agreed to take part in the Super 6 Tournament proposed by the NWFL Board to end the season and select Nigeria’s representatives at the upcoming maiden edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League in Morocco next month. At a... Read more
The Elegushi Beach in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos was on Saturday set agog when Member of world football governing body, FIFA’s Council, Executive Committee Member of CAF and President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick officially kicked off the new Nigeria Beach Soccer League. The League,... Read more
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed appreciation to the Federal Government as well as the governments of Akwa Ibom, Edo and Lagos States for their immense contributions to the Super Eagles’ qualification for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals taking place in Cameroon. Success in the qualifying... Read more
Three –time champions Nigeria soared high in concluding their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series with a commanding 3-0 defeat of the Crocodiles of Lesotho at an upgraded and effervescent Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr rested first choice goalie Maduka Okoye and started Tyronne... Read more
The Governor of Kogi State, Mr Yahaya Bello on Saturday, 27th March joined the Nigeria Football Federation in the commemoration of the International Women’s Month 2021 in Abuja, to canvass support for gender equality and women’s empowerment through football in the country. Governor Bello, who was Special Guest of... Read more
Nigeria will be one of the participating teams at next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon – but that ticket was secured three hours before a 1-0 win over Benin Republic in Porto Novo sealed a double over the Beninoise and ended an 8-year unbeaten run for the... Read more
The Super Eagles returned to Lagos from Benin Republic on Sunday afternoon, savouring the victory over the Squirrels that shot them to an unassailable 11 points in their 2021 AFCON qualifying group and looking forward to a colourful houseparty against the Crocodiles of Lesotho at the Teslim Balogun Stadium,... Read more
The list of major figures and leading entities felicitating with President of the NFF and new FIFA Council Member, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has soared with one of the richest men in the world, Alhaji Aliko Dangote (GCON), the Confederation of Central American and Caribbeans FAs and Zenith Bank PLC... Read more
