Former Super Eagles Coach Christian Chukwu has expressed support for the choice of Kaduna as venue for the return leg match for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Wasps of Rwanda in June. Chukwu, a former Super Eagles coach, said in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday that the fears of football [...]
Kaduna will stage a 2014 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Namibia despite Sunday’s bomb blast that killed dozens of people. Nigeria will host Namibia on June 2 to begin her qualifying campaign for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. And Kaduna has been picked to host the World Cup qualifier as well as a [...]
Super Eagles assistant coach, Sylvanus Okpala has said the April 12 international friendly between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Pharaohs of Egypt will be a perfect test for the home-based players and the Coach Stephen Keshi-led technical crew as they continue the build up to the second leg Africa Cup of Nations qualifier [...]
The premier said hooliganism is slowly creeping back when the game is beginning to pick up and called for concerted effort by stakeholders to contain the vice. He further challenged football administrators to ensure those trusted with handling matches led by referees and linesmen are people of integrity and whose commitment and professionalism are above [...]
Accompanying the trophy is former Chelsea coach Ruud Gullit and former Nigeria and former Chelsea defender Celestine Babayaro. has attributed football decline in Africa owing to lack of football structures and inept organisation by football administrators. Also in the entourage is UEFA Marketing Director Guy Laurent Epstein, and Hans-Erick Tujt who is the global [...]
Former Governor of old Gongola state, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has described the state of sports in the country as not too impressive as he expressed his dissatisfaction over the country’s non qualification of for the just conclude Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Alhaji Tukur, who emerged the National Chairman of the [...]
Former Chelsea defender Celestine Babayaro says lack of structures and inept organisation by football administrators has derailed development of the game on the continent. Babayaro said there was plenty of talent in Africa but poor football administrators have killed the game.” “We have plenty of talents in Africa. But those running the game are not [...]
Nigeria schedules Sept. football friendly against Brazil – Nigeria, which has embarked on an ambitious plan to revamp its national football team and raise the standard of the game in the country, has scheduled an international friendly against 2014 World Cup host Brazil. According to Nigerian football authorities, the match is scheduled for the National [...]
Reports from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) secretariat in Abuja say that there will be a board meeting this week to ratify the candidacy of its president Aminu Maigari for the vacant CAF executive committee seat. Nigeria lost her seat in the African body after former Caf and Fifa executive committee member Amos Adamu was [...]
Nigeria competence horde a lapse leg of their initial turn 2013 Africa Cup of Nations gift diversion opposite Rwanda in Benin City in June. The Edo State supervision is meddlesome in hosting a diversion during a Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium according to reports in The Guardian. The paper quoted unnamed officials of a Nigeria Football Federation [...]
By Sports Reporter ZAMBIA women under 17 soccer team coach Beauty Mwamba has expressed confidence that her team has what it takes to beat Nigeria and qualify for the 2012 FIFA World Cup finals to be held in Azerbaijan. Mwamba said she was happy with the way her team was shaping up in training and [...]
Nigeria on Wednesday nosedived by a step, in both FIFA and CAF rankings, for the month of March. The country moved from its previous 56th ranking in the World in Feb. to the 57th and from eighth place in Africa to the ninth position. The development was an indication that the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), [...]
Posted: 2012-03-07 13:39 Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has played up his side’s chances of qualifying for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations following their lack lustre goalless draw with Rwanda in Kigali last month. The Super Eagles, playing their first competitive game under Stephen Keshi, did not look superb against the Wasps. “I believe [...]
Super Eagles manager Stephen Keshi By Olawale Ajimotokan Super Eagles manager Stephen Keshi is unwinding in Benin City after heading Nigeria to a goalless pull opposite Rwanda in his initial rival compare in assign of a inhabitant group final week in Kigali. News reports monitored on Tuesday had suggested that a former manager of Mali [...]
Nigerians have almost stopped bemoaning the crises that have bedevilled their football, but what is numbing is the cascading from its Olympian heights in a free for all fashion – on the pitch, on the board, and in rankings by FIFA. It is this free fall that has left most pundits and global admirers dazed [...]
Timothy Molobi – City Press Johannesburg – The FIFA probe into match-fixing of Bafana Bafana matches building up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup could just turn out to be the straw that breaks the South African Football Association’s (SAFA) back. That is if FIFA is to find that SAFA knew or were involved in [...]
Nigerians have almost stopped bemoaning the crises that have bedevilled their football, but what is numbing is the cascading from its Olympian heights in a free for all fashion – on the pitch, on the board, and in rankings by FIFA. It is this free fall that has left most pundits and global admirers dazed [...]
The Super Eagles have been urged to be contented with playing a goalless draw against host Rwanda on Wednesday in a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Kigali. Making the call in a chat with Trustsports at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) secretariat in Abuja, former Super Eagles left winger Emmanuel Amuneke noted that [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation will not comment on remarks made within the Senate which labelled it the country’s ‘most corrupt government agency’. On Wednesday, the President of the Senate, David Mark, said the corruption within the NFF was responsible for the Super Eagles’ dwindling fortunes. “The NFF is the centre of corruption in the country [...]
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UK Prime Minister to Lobby President GoodLuck for Gay People in Nigeria
The Britain Prime Minister, Mr David Cameroon whilst reacting to questions from a Nigerian, Name, Bisi, living in Britain, who asked for his reaction to a bill approved by Nigerian lawmakers last month banning same-sex marriage – setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders – and making it illegal to form gay [...]
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Condoms, narcotic drugs flood Boko Haram camps
More of the dirty sides of the insurgents’ lifestyle are being revealed as troops continue to stumble on strange and bizarre objects such as several used and unused condoms as well as charms and amulets of various shapes in the captured terrorists camps. Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, who made the revelation, said that [...]
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position
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