Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has reignited his interest in Swiss-born goalkeeper Sebastian Osigwe as he broadens his search for a top-class keeper for the Super Eagles. Rohr was forced to make a rookie keeper Francis Uzoho his first choice at the Russia 20 ...
Former Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme is set to join up with the Nigerian national team and assume his place in manager Gernot Rohr’s technical team after their next match. Ikeme, who survived a battle with leukaemia but has been forced t ...
Chelsea star, Victor Moses, may return to the Super Eagles just a few months after announcing his retirement from the senior national team. The Russia 2018 World Cup star recently announced his retirement from the national team, saying he wants to concent ...
CAF has approved the newly renovated Enyimba International Stadium Aba for Wednesday’s Confederation Cup Group C encounter between Enyimba and Congo’s CARA Brazzaville. The CAF officials inspected the pitch last week after three years that it had been ...
Nigeria has been given a stiff test in Group A with Kenya, Tanzania and Cameroon for the Women’s U-20 African Nations Cup in Kenya. A record of 9 teams will be competing for the 2018 Women’s U20 African Nations Championship which started in th ...
Manager Unai Emery earned his first three points as Arsenal got back to Premier League reckoning with a three-one win over visiting West Ham United. The Hammers drew the first blood through skipper Marco Arnautovic in the twenty-fifth minute, but Nacho Mo ...
Galatasaray forward, Henry Onyekuru and Torino’s Ola Aina have been recalled to the Super Eagles ahead of the African Cup of Nations’ qualifier against Seychelles on September seven in Victoria. Both players will get another chance to impress the mana ...
Golden Eaglets Head Coach, Manu Garba is expected to name his final twenty-man squad for the next month’s Under Seventeen World Cup African zonal qualifier on August twenty-four. Nigeria barely beat the deadline for the submission of her provisional lis ...
Former Golden Eaglets star Victor Osimhen will spend the remainder of the 2018-2019 campaign on loan at Belgian First Division A club Royal Charleroi Sporting Club. The Ultimate Strikers Academy product had been on the radar of another Belgian top-flight ...
Efforts to convince Victor Moses to change his retirement decision with the national team is in top gear as the Nigeria Football Federation has made move to approach the Chelsea star. According to the Secretary-General of Nigeria Football Federation, Dr S ...
The counsel to Ambassador Chris Giwa led board, Barrister Habila Ardzard has warned corporate Nigeria and individuals to stay away from Amaju Pinnick led board purportedly elected on September 30, 2018. Ardzard noted that despite the perceived recognition ...
The newly opened Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba may host Nigeria’s African Nations Cup qualifier against Libya in October. That is if the Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) technical committee certified it fit to host the clash. The Super Eagles will m ...
Enyimba boosted their chances of making it to the quarter-final stage of the CAF Confederation Cup after beating their hosts Djoliba of Mali 1-0 in their Group C encounter at the Modibo Keita Stadium, Bamako on Sunday. The People’s Elephant were awarded ...
Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central has called on the Federal Government to respect the regulations of the World Football Governing body, FIFA and not allow it to ban the country. Sani said this via his twitter handle as he called on Nigeria†...
Former captain Aisha Mohammed has a formal complaint filed against her by her D’Tigress teammate Ijeoma Ajemba for assault in the US. The chaos at the Atlanta base of the African champions hit ultra-high on Monday, August 13th, 2018, when Ajemba was sai ...
Football fans in Nigeria have been criticizing Super Eagles forward Victor Moses for retiring from international football. The Chelsea right fullback announced his retirement from the senior Nigeria National Team on Wednesday after six years of serving ...
The dreams of twelve promising footballers to represent Nigeria at the upcoming 2019 Africa U17 Cup of Nations qualifiers have been cut short after they failed the compulsory Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests. It should be noted that the Nigerian Fed ...
Larry Ekundayo will defend his International Boxing Federation European title in Lagos, his commercial agent, Ben Gray, has disclosed. Gray said this during a reception for Ekundayo at the Nigeria High Commission in London on Thursday, an emailed stateme ...
Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick has hinted that the Super Eagles will play one of the 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifiers in Delta State. A top official revealed that Delta State government got assurances from the NFF president tha ...
Sunmisola Balogun, a gold medalist in wrestling at the just-concluded Africa Youth Games (AYG) in Algiers, on Wednesday attributed her victory to hard work and focus. Balogun said in Ibadan, Oyo State that she went to the tournament determined to win a ...