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Tension over plans to create a ‘new NFA’
Due to the court judgment a forthnight ago that declared the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) ‘unknown to the Nigerian laws’, indications have emerged that the Nigerian sports authorities may have perfected...
Female U-17 World Cup Qualifier: Kenyan Girls Scared Of Nigerian Flamingoes —NFF
The Kenyan Football Federation (KFF) is using the security situation in Nigeria a reason not to honour Saturday’s return leg of the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifier. The Nigerian team won the away fixture 2-0, played at the the Nyayo...
1.2 Million Naira Facebook Page – National Sports Commission Responds
The National Sports Commission has responded to allegations that it spent 1.2 Million Naira to open a Facebook page. Their response is republished below: The attention of the National Sports Commission has been drawn to posts on the Commission’s...
Insecurity in Kano forces NPL to postpone Kano Pillars vs Enyimba match.
The security situation in Kano State has forced the NPL to postpone the week five premier league fixture between Kano Pillars and Enyimba indefinitely. Idris Malikiwa, the Kano Pillars spokesperson, explained that it would be unwise to go on with...
Home-based Eagles to tour South America in May
The Nigeria Football Federation has concluded arrangements to take the home-based to South America in an bid to use domestic league players as the core of the Super Eagles. Musa Amadu, the NFF secretary-general said the issue of Nigeria missing...
Pomp and Pageantry..mixed with Cup of Nations surprises on opening day.
The last golden rays of light streaked towards the earth displaying a perfect definition of an african sunset as the sun crept to sleep slightly north of west of the Equator. The stage was set in Equatorial Guinea for the opening ceremony of the...
Abuja Federal High Court declares NFF and NPL “illegal bodies”.
A fresh round of crisis is may befall the Nigerian Football Federation and the Nigerian Premier League as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja declared both bodies illegal and that all they have been doing in the past couple of months are null...
The African Cup of Nations…Interested or not?
The 28th edition of The African Cup of Nations-co hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea- kicks off on the 21st of january at the Stade d’Angondje in Equatorial Guinea and for the first time since I became old enough to have a personal “remembrance...
Super Eagles crash to 45th position in latest FIFA ranking
According to the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday in Zurich, the Super Eagles occupy the 45th position in world football, their lowest rank in the past two years. The Eagles are placed 6th in Africa behind Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Algeria,...
