BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The match was won. But that tells little about the story. The story is more about the match hero, Odion Ighalo who...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have shot themselves within qualifying range of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations as they moved from the third position on the log...
I It has been a dicey game so far as Nigeria’s Super Eagles are taking on the Mediterranean Knights of Libya. The difference between the two...
South Africa are possibly the Group E leaders going into the second half of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series after defeating Seychelles 6-0 at...
In the Group E of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series, involving Libya, South Africa, Nigeria and Seychelles, Bafana Bafana have taken a commanding lead...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA Kenneth Omeruo, Ogenyi Onazi, John Obi Mikel, Ahmed Musa. Apart from being Super Eagles players and plying their trade outside Nigeria, what...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. After missing out in two consecutive editions of Africa’s premier football competition, the three-time former champions, Super Eagles of Nigeria have an opportunity...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Two Super Eagles’ players, Kelechi Iheanacho and Kenneth Omeruo, if fielded in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualification duel with Libya will...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A Super Eagles of Nigeria versus Libya is a rarity. Across ages, the Uyo match in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying...
Super Eagles’ opponents in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and Group E leaders, Libya have now opted to fly into Nigeria on Friday, as against...
Grim determination is written all over the faces of Super Eagles as the clock ticks down to a potentially explosive 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying...
Adel Amrouche who suddenly resigned from his job four days to the crucial encounter with Nigeria in the midterm of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations...
BY MFON PATRICK. The management of Akwa United Football Club has announced a three weeks end of the season break for players and officials of...
BY AKEEM BUSARI. It was happiness in Ekiti state football community as one of the several talented youth footballers in the state had his future secured....
Less than 48 hours to team’s departure to Nigeria for Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, the Algerian coach of Libya, Adel Amrouche, has left the...
As the clock ticks down to Saturday’s crucial Group E encounter of Nigeria and Libya in the 2019 Africa Nations Cup qualifiers, the Libyan Football Federation...
The semi final matches of this year’s AITEO Cup competition for men and women will hold on Wednesday, with the exception of the clash between champions...
The Super Eagles’ camp is already bubbling ahead of their must-win encounter with Group E table-topper, Libya on Saturday. According to the media department of the...
BY AKEEM BUSARI. The top position-seeking Super Eagles will not be lacking in massive support as they attempt to strip Group E table-toppers, Libya of their...
BY MFON PATRICK, UYO. The bowel of the sumptuous Godswill Akpabio Stadium is expected to be filled to the brim when the Super Eagles take on...
First vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Seyi Akinwunmi and Bet9ja boss, Kunle Soname have been bestowed the Philanthropy and Humanitarian Service awards by a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the Super eagles’ camp opens in Uyo this Monday, the trio of William Ekong of Udinese in Italy, Semi Ajayi of Rotherham...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is another October 8, this Monday and the Super Eagles’ camp in Uyo is expected to open for the encounter with...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Ahead of the crucial 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying encounter with Libya at the weekend, the Super Eagles’ camp will open...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. Fatigue contributed largely to Niemba’s costly defeat to Morocco’s Raja Casablanca in the first leg of this year’s CAF Confederation Cup last Wednesday...
For the first time, the Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will be applied for the finals of this season’s CAF Interclubs competitions; Total CAF Champions League 2018...
World football icon, Lionel Messi went into the memory lane in an interview with FourFourTwo magazine and dug into the archives to bring out the 14...
FIFA has reported the Eseosa Aigbogun is the first Swiss player to score at a Women’s World Cup and that the 25-year old is counting on...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. Brooding fans will return to the newly renovated Enyimba International Stadium, Aba to watch the emergence of the third semi finalists of the...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. The People’s Elephants chase two titles at both ends – at home and in the continent. And Enyimba appear set to make...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. There are three hurdles to clear for the teams involved at this stage of the competition. Two matches are on the list...
Searing battles will rage on the field across the federation on Wednesday with the Agege Stadium, Lagos, Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano and the U.J. Esuene Stadium...
BY MFON PATRICK. The management of Aiteo Cup Champions Akwa United have described the club’s partnership deal with a foremost Airlines in Nigeria Dana Air...
BY MFON PATRICK. Aiteo Cup defending champions Akwa United will on Wednesday continue their quest to retain their crown when they file out against Enugu...
Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick was formally welcomed into the global football family, coincidentally, on Nigeria’s national day and the day after the fourth anniversary...
The Wednesday’s scheduled semi-final duel of Enyimba and Morocco’s Raja Casablanca tie has run into controversy following accusation and counter-accusation by both teams. Raja Casablanca reportedly...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles’ skipper, Mikel Obi, is conspicuously missing in the 24-man list released on Monday by the team’s Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr...
Nigeria flagbearer, Enyimba have virtually won available trophies on the continent but are desirous of annexing the Total CAF Confederation Cup that is yet to grace...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The National Association of Nigeria Professional footballers (NANPF) has blamed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the footballers’ union none-affiliation with the continental...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Despite the noise by footballers’ associations in Nigeria, their influence does not go beyond the country’s frontiers. On Saturday in Sharm El Sheikh...
Only Cameroun are on the danger list of losing the hosting rights of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations as the rights already ceded to other...
BY MFON PATRICK. Defending champions Akwa United will battle Enugu Rangers in the quarter final of the Aiteo Cup after suffering a 2-0 defeat to...
After initially signing up for the Labour Party in July shortly after the World Cup final, Nigeria’s most prolific right wing in history, Segun Odegbami on...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Providence has made it possible for Nigeria’s Amajuoritse Pinnick to have a double celebration on Sunday when the CAF Extraordinary General...
The Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match of Nigeria and Libya has been moved from the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna to the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo,...
Nigeria’s biggest moguls, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola were Nigerian special guests at the FIFA Best Awards in London on Monday night. They were obviously there...
BY MFON PATRICK. Victor Mbaoma’s 53rd minute goal secured a vital win for defending Champions Akwa United against Wikki Tourists in their opening Group D...
Hearing resumes this Tuesday at a Federal High Court sitting in Jos on the case between the 2014 to 2018 regime of the Nigeria Football Federation...
BY ADEWALE AJAYI. The Nigeria Football Federation senior vice president, Seyi Akinwunmi, has set the tone for what Nigerians should expect in the next four-year...
The protracted legal battle in Nigeria football administration resumes on Tuesday at a Federal High Court sitting in Jos. Hearing in the case was adjourned on...
The academic doors of activities will begin this Monday at the first Football College in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, Carl Academy and Football College Umuahia....
Nigeria’s flagbearers, Enyimba Football Club must have unwavering self-belief when they take on Raja Casablanca of Morocco in the semi finals of this year’s CAF Confederation...
The battle for places in the quarter finals of this year’s AITEO Cup competition (men and women) will begin on Monday in eight different centres across...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. Enyimba will host the first leg semifinal of the CAF Confederation Cup in Aba next 10 days with the reverse fixture three...
Nigeria’s Enyimba lived up to their name and continental reputation as they virtually trampled on hapless Rayon Sports of Rwanda in the return leg match of...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. Rayon Sports carry the weight of their 12 million compatriots as they file out at the reconstructed Enyimba International Stadium in Aba...
Nigeria’s Enyimba’ s continental opponents in Sunday’s CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals return leg, Rayon Sport of Rwanda are confident of creating an upset at the Enyimba...
The date of the first of the back-to-back Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match with Libya has changed. The match originally scheduled for Wednesday October...
BY TUNDE SHAMSUDEEN. Former Secretary General and later board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Taiwo Joseph Ogunjobi, has congratulated Amaju Melvin Pinnick,...
One of the two new members into the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF), Alhaji Ganiyu Majekodunmi literarily had a resounding home coming as...
Chief Jonathan Ogufere, former president of West African Football Union, WAFU, who is also the president of the Association of Sports Veterans, Nigeria has on behalf...
Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated, Mr. Amaju Pinnick on his re-election on Thursday, as President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). In a...
Rayon Sports of Aba who are scheduled to play against Enyimba in Sunday’s CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals believe impossible is nothing. The team is already in...
Nigerian football politicians on Thursday proved that politics can be without rancour. The winners of the polls and the losers embraced pointing a direction to follow...
Enyimba FC’s quarterfinals opponents in the CAF Confederation Cup, Rayon Sports of Rwanda have left Kigali this Thursday aboard Rwandair. They will pass the night in...
Two key players will be missing in Rayon Sports of Rwanda line up when they face Nigeria’s Enyimba in Aba on Sunday. The East African sides...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA Enyimba FC strongman, Chief Felix Anyansi-Agwu made a return into the NFF board as he polled 32 votes to...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. The election into the board of the NFF has seen Sulaiman Kwande joining Ahmed Yusuf Fresh in the North Central...
Theo Afelokhai, the man who has defied form books, pushing Super Eagles’ hitherto first choice goalkeeper, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, to the background in his club, is obviously...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Hot favourites, Ahmed Yusuf aka Fresh cried after a hard won victory in what was initially anticipated to be a...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Politician, Ifeanyi Ubah withdraw in the final minute as the election of Chairman of Chairmen was about to be...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Like Amajuoritse Pinnick, Seyi Akinwunmi, a lawyer and a passionate grassroots football developer has also retained his senior vice...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Amajuoritse Melvin Pinnick has retained his seat as the president of the Nigeria Football Federation. He becomes the first back-to-back...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Will it be the present or the past? Will it be a new man on board? Will a former...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. The stage is set for the election into the next administrative cycle of the Nigeria Football Federation as the...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. The host governor, Rt. Hon Aminu Masari of Katsina State has delivered his speech which was largely a goodwill...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Palpable heart beats can be heard as all is set for the NFF election in Katsina. Minutes ago, the accreditation...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. Activities relating to the 2018 NFF Elective Congress are about to commence. While minutes ago, the hall was empty, the...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. At the moment, the hall where the election into the next cycle of Nigeria football administrator will hold is...
BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA. The sleepy city of Katsina has become agog as Nigerian football politicians are gathered for elective congress of the Nigeria...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the elective congress of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) holds in Katsina on Thursday, the city becomes the fifth to host the...
Super Eagles’ most successful striker at the World Cup, Ahmed Musa has further justified the investment on him by his Saudi Arabian club side, Al...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigerian football politicians are already streaming into Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari. The objective is to elect new members...
As the clock ticks down to the election hour into the next cycle of the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) holding at the...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. CAF Confederation Cup campaigners Enyimba have joined 15 other teams now waiting on the Nigeria Football Federation for the group phase draw of...
Bimo FC of Lafia, the amateur club owned by Chinedu Okoye, one of the four contestants for in Thursday’s NFF presidential elections, has been thrown out...
Super Eagles’ World Cup attire which attracted worldwide applause and recently shortlisted for Beazley Design award by London Design Museum, has been adopted by a Turkey...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Two sets of board had occupied the Nigeria Football Federation offices this year. It looked absurd. But decades ago, at the height...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. With the line-up of the qualifiers for the group stage of this year’s Aiteo Cup all but one completed, the draw is...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Like the previous NFF elective congress, Katsina 2018 may witness its version of drama as one of the candidates jostling to become...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Louis Edet, Nigeria’s first indigenous Inspector General of Police who was also the first appointed helmsman of the Nigeria football governing body...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. … A SACK THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF NIGERIAN FOOTBALL ADMINISTRATION… Electoral process is not new in the composition of Nigeria’s national football...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is not just tension that accompanies the mode of entry into the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), sometimes there are also dramas....
The current senior vice president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Seyi Akinwunmi, a lawyer and a passionate grassroots football developer has revealed that he is...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is two days to the 2018 NFF Elective Congress in Katsina. Four candidates are lined out for the topmost position, the presidency....
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. All but two of the Group Stage qualifiers are now known. The outstanding matches involve CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinalists Enyimba against Edo State’s...
World football –ruling body, FIFA on Monday named Messrs Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege as its Observers to Thursday’s elections into the Nigeria Football Federation Executive...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the activities unfold leading to the Katsina 2018 Elective Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation, one of the four contestants for...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the race to the topmost sports federation’s seat in Nigeria approaches the home stretch, the incumbent president of the Nigeria Football...
BY MFON PATRICK. The management of Akwa United Football club on Sunday paid a condolence visit to ex-international and former Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. When the 13th edition of CAF cadet tournament, Africa U17 Cup of Nations kicks off in Tanzania on May 12 next year,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Following speculations that the National Association of Nigerian Footballers (NANF) plans to file an application before Federal High Court in Abuja seeking...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. All the eight teams for next years Africa U17 Cup of Nations in Tanzania are now know. Guinea picked the last ticket after...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In beating Ghana’s Black Starlets 3-1 on penalties on Saturday, Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets became the sixth qualifier in the field of eight...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has expressed sadness over the death of a one time President of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria Rev....
RAYON SPORT 0-0 ENYIMBA Nigeria’s Enyimba were forced to a goalless draw by Rayon Sports of Rwanda in the first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup...
Game is on with Enyimba dominating but yet to find the net. Midway in the second half, Enyimba have made a substitution. Freedom Omofoman comes in...
BY APESIN ADEMOLA. Defending champions Akwa United lead the rest of the teams in challenging for spots in the group stage, reserved for the winners...
Officials of the University of Benin football team disqualified from the Higher Institutions Football League HiFL are crying foul over the decision. An official letter disqualifying...
BY AKEEM BUSARI. Success often yields greater successes. That has come to play for the Ekiti State U-13 team which recently won the Seyi Akinwunmi U-13...
The Brazilian coach of Rayon Sports of Rwanda, Roberto Oliveira Goncalves, has told a Rwandan newspaper, The New Times that Enyimba will not escape defeat in...
On the same Niamey soil where they were denied qualification for the continental championship two years ago, the Nigerian Golden Eaglets rode majestically back to the...
The Golden Eaglets Saturday night in Niamey, Niger Republic picked the WAFU Zone B ticket for the African U-17 Nations Cup after beating their Ghanaian counterparts,...
Match has ended at 1-1. Nigeria missed a chance to take the lead with three minutes to go. Waiting for match officials to decide what next....
Ten minutes to go, still Ghana 1-1 Nigeria. A winner must emerge! GOOOOOAAAL. Amoo finishes brilliantly to level scores. Ghana 1-1 Nigeria
56th minute, Ghana leads 1-0. At half time, The Nigeria vs Ghana WAFU B final match was goalless. Match is progressing and is at...
With just hours to the kick-off of the final match of the WAFU Zone B which serves as the qualifying game for CAF U-17 Africa Cup...
As Enyimba FC settles in Kigali ahead of their quarter-finals encounter with Rayon Sports on Sunday, an understanding of their opponents may be good for them....
As Enyimba prepare to confront Rwanda’s Rayon Sports in Kigali on Sunday in Kigali, Abdul Rwatubyaye, a defender for the club and national team has said...
As the first leg encounter of the quarter-finals gathers momentum, Rayon Sports are brazing up for what could easily be their most explosive match in...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A Ghana versus Nigeria football match is not just another encounter. It is a battle for supremacy! This has been so since...
Ghana Black Starlets head coach Abdul Karim Zito, whose team is facing Nigeria this Saturday in Niamey, says the mode of qualification to the FIFA under-17...
The head coach of Ghana’s under-17 team, Abdul Karim Zito, is waiting anxiously on the fitness of his dependable left-back Abdul Samed ahead of Saturday’s West...
Fears of another possible defeat of Ghana’s Black Starlets has gripped football followers in Ghana as both countries’ U-17 teams clash on Saturday evening in Niamey...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA All things been equal, any of the quartet of Amaju Pinnick, Aminu Maigari, Taiwo Ogunjobi and Chinedu Okoye will be President of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Baring any possible last minute cancellation or postponement, it is six days to the elective congress of the Nigeria Football Federation. The exercise...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A battle of epic proportion is in the making as familiar juggernauts and a dark horse go into confrontation for the leadership...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has charged the U17 national team, Golden Eaglets to keep level heads and stay focused...
Nigeria’s continental flag bearers, Enyimba resume their Nigerian record seeking adventure on Sunday when the quarter –finals of the CAF Confederation Cup begins. Even though after...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Baring any hitch, it is eight days to the elective congress of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, in Katsina. According to...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. Nigeria and Ghana will rekindle a 67 –year rivalry when the Golden Eaglets take on the Black Starlets of Ghana in Niamey...
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets have avenged the elimination they suffered from Niger Republic two years ago in the quest for final qualification for the CAF U-17 Africa...
With additional four minutes added, Niger Has pulled a goal back. It is now Niger 1-2 Nigeria. In the 58thminute, Olakunle Olusegun in a solo effort...
UPDATE: CAF U-17 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS, NIGERIA – GHANA RIVALRY IS IN THE OFFING! The traditional rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana is being revived. If the...
In the 58th minute, Olakunle Olusegun in a solo effort has increased tally to 2-0. Final is getting more certain for Nigeria! Second half has resumed....
Second half has resumed. Nigeria pressing hard for the goal that insures that the Golden Eaglets will play in the Saturday final qualification match. In the...
Two minutes to half time, Akinkunmi Alao puts Nigeria 1-0 up in the second semi-finals of the WAFU Group B U-17 African Cup qualifiers.
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Outside the General Election in Nigeria, the contest for membership of the executive committee of the football ruling body, the Nigeria...
The Golden Eaglets are two wins away from booking their place in the continental finals in Tanzania next year. They however have familiar foes to contend...
The next challenge for Akwa United in their quest to successfully defend their Aiteo Cup title will come from Aklosendi FC, one of the two teams...
President George Oppong Weah of Liberia has hailed Nigeria as a great and worthy ally in national development, while describing Nigerian football as a model that...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s most successful team, the U-17 side, aptly tagged ‘Golden Eaglets’ will be up against their Niger Republic this Wednesday evening in...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. Lagos headlines the states that will not be represented in Wednesday’s draw for the Round of 32 of this year’s Aiteo Cup. The...
Nigeria on Tuesday defeated Liberia 2-1 at home in what will officially go down as a mere exhibition match. The encounter lost its value as a...
LIBERIA 1-2 NIGERIA Liberia scores from penalty spot. Akpeyi got his fingertip to it, but too strong for him. 2-1 6th Substitution by Nigeria. Onyekuru out,...
LIBERIA 0-2 NIGERIA 6th Substitution by Nigeria. Onyekuru out, Mfon Udoh in. Nwankwo out, Sunday Adetunji in. 5th Substitution by Nigeria. Kelechi Nwakali out, Samuel Kalu...
LIBERIA 0-2 NIGERIA 5th Substitution by Nigeria. Kelechi Nwakali out, Samuel Kalu in. Substitution as the second half begins. Ezenwa out, Akpeyi in. Awaziem out, Adeleye...
UPDATE: LIBERIA VS NIGERIA. LIBERIA 0-2 NIGERIA Substitution as the second half begins. Ezenwa out, Akpeyi in. Awaziem out, Adeleye in. Ndidi out, Iheanacho in. Jamilu...
With the conclusion of the Aiteo Cup Round of 64, the draw for the surviving 32 clubs who go into Round of 32 will be conducted...
Cote d’Ivoire battered 5-1 last Thursday by Golden Eaglets of Nigeria and thus confined to the bottom of Group B of CAF U-17 qualifiers in Niamey...
As Nigerians look towards next month’s back-to-back encounters with 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying Group E table toppers, Libya, the Super Eagles’ manager, Gernot Rohr...
Ikechukwu Ezenwa who since the World Cup qualification last year has been living under the shadows of new boy, Francis Uzoho will have the opportunity of...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. Group B: Burkina Faso v Côte d’Ivoire (both 4pm) Although the Nigeria Golden Eaglets are not playing, Nigerian will pay attention to...
The Super Eagles expectedly defeated the lowly ranked Seychelles team in the matchday 2 of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. But beyond the score...
Tanzania’s new coach, Emmanuel Amuneke has put the Taifa Stars on course for qualification for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations after his team pulled an...
South Africa and Libya played goalless on Saturday afternoon in Durban as the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series gets to Match Day 2. The...
For the first time in 17 years, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have had more than two goal margin victory in a competitive match as...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. What will go down in Roche Caiman, outskirts of Victoria, Seychelles this Saturday afternoon may be the equivalent of the David versus...
At the meeting, attended by the match officials from Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya on Friday for the Saturday 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers of...
President of the Republic of Seychelles, Danny Faure and the Vice President, Vincent Meriton will attend Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Pirates...
Former Arsenal and Nigerian international player, Nwankwo Kanu, who won battle against heart-related ailment and consequently established the Kanu Heart Foundation, is celebrating the World Heart...
BY BIBIAN ONWUGBOLU. As Nigeria’s Super Eagles with many hitherto non-regulars, prepare for Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying tie against Pirates of Seychelles, one...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets were in their best element Thursday afternoon as they mauled Cote d’Ivoire 5-1 to shoot to the top of...
The weather was exceedingly warm on Mahe Island on Thursday morning as Coach Gernot Rohr, alongside his assistants, took his charges through their paces at the...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. As the battle to pick qualification ticket for the 2019 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations gets under way in WAFU Zone 2...
After getting off to a dream start that saw them do the unthinkable with a 2-0 away victory to Nigeria in Uyo in June 2017, South...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the Super Eagles’ camp swelling to 20 on Wednesday morning, formal training session was proposed to commence. According to tweets gleaned from...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Committee on Ethics and Fair Play, led by Nuhu Ribadu, the famous and pioneer boss of Nigeria’s anti-graft body, EFCC, has...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the camp of the Super Eagles begin to bubble with the arrival more players, the team on Tuesday engaged in foot-volleyball on...
All is now set for the Rookie Round of this year’s edition of the Nigeria national football cup, the AITEO Cup competition that will take place...
The camp of Nigeria’s Super Eagles has come very much alive in Victoria, Mahé Island in Seychelles following the arrival of six more players on Tuesday...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Super Eagles camp in Victoria, Seychelles is almost like a ghost town as only one player, Henry Onyekuru is in camp....
Nigeria’s Enyimba are to face Rayon Sports of Rwanda in one of the quarter final matches of the Confederation Cup. In another pairing, CARA of Congo...
The resurgence of the Nigerian U-17 football team, the Golden Eaglets, has suffered a delay following a 2-3 loss to Burkina Faso in their opening match...
Mercurial Lionel Messi is one of the 10 goal-scorers shortlisted for the Puskas Award as finalists of The Bests” were unveiled in London this Monday. The...
Ahead of the Super Eagles’ crucial 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against the Pirates of Seychelles in Victoria on Saturday, thenff.com spoke to defender William Ekong...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. Draw for the continent’s inter-club competitions – CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup – will be conducted this Monday evening in Cairo....
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. It was a popular maxim in the last months of General Ibrahim Babangida as the Nigerian military president: “we don’t know...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. The Golden Eagles begin the battle to restore their pride in the continent and globally in the cadet competition as they face...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Followers of Nigeria’s most successful football club, Enyimba are anxiously awaiting the draw for the final stages of CAF inter-clubs competitions...
For lovers of youth football development, it was a fascinating two –day feast at the Campos Mini-Stadium in Lagos as the Seyi Akinwunmi U13 Football...
The Government of Abia State in South East Nigeria, has presented the state’s second highest honour to the Chief Felix Anyansi-Agwu, the Chairman of two –time...
As hosts Seychelles open their one week camp this Sunday ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations’ qualifying encounter with Super Eagles on Saturday, the Nigeria...
After three years in the limbo since their record-making fifth victory in the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the Nigerian side, Golden Eaglets will on Monday begin...
After the World Cup in which Nigeria featured in Russia, comes another football competition among Nigerians in Russia. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Russian Federation and Belarus, Professor...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Pirates, the national team of Seychelles, open their training camp this Sunday as they prepare for Saturday’s match with the Super...
When Nigeria resumes the quest for qualification for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations next weekend in Victoria, Seychelles, Skipper John Mikel Obi will be conspicuously...
Organisers of the Nigerian Professional Football League, the League Management Company (LMC) has put up the rationale behind declaring Lobi Stars as the Nigerian champions and...
The contingent of Nigeria’s U17 boys, Golden Eaglets, has arrived in Niamey, capital of Niger Republic for the WAFU B U17 Tournament which serves as the...
A two –man advance party of the Nigeria Football Federation, led by the Director of Competitions, Ayobola Oyeyode, is set to depart for the capital city...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As it was in the 1982 season when the Nigerian football league had an abrupt end and the leading club then, Enugu Rangers...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Following the difficulties in getting some of the local players for the next week Saturday encounter with the Super Eagles and the injuries...
President of world football –ruling body, FIFA, on Thursday hailed Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Coach Gernot Rohr, the backroom staff, officials and Nigerian ball fans for their...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has praised the never-say-die spirit of Enyimba FC of Aba in getting a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the clock ticks down to the 4.30pm local time of next week Saturday for the Seychelles versus Nigeria Africa Cup of Nations...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. GROUP C: Enyimba (Nigeria) 1-0 CARA Brazzaville (Congo Republic) (first leg CARA Brazzaville 3-0), Williamsville AC (Côte d’Ivoire) 0-0 Djoliba (Mali) (first...
Head Coach of the U20 Women National Team, Chris Danjuma, has described as utter falsehood and a cluster of esoteric jargons, a story that an official...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. The crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may well be a blessing in disguise. Several attempts had been made to streamline...
The venue for Nigeria’s Matchday 3 encounter with Libya is not yet decided. In the communiqué released after the Nigeria Football Federation’s board meeting on Monday,...
The board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reaffirmed that the Super Eagles will travel individually to Seychelles for the forth coming fixture of the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Super Eagles encounter with Seychelles team, tagged Pirates will now hold on Saturday in Victoria, the capital city of the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Looking for a way out in the apparent difficult task of producing the two continental flag bearers for Nigeria in the next year’s...
Enyimba are set for their last gasp to get a quarter-final ticket as they host Congolese side, CARA in their first ever match on their traditional...
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE. The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has set October 15 as deadline for registration of 2018/19 club competitions – the CAF Champions League and CAF...
Ikenne, the home base of Remo Stars FC will face Ado Odo Ota in one of the quarter-final matches of the sixth edition on Kessignton Adebukunola...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the election cycle of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) lasting precisely four years, the head of the legal team to the Amaju...
Retired Nigeria and Wolverhampton Wanderers’ goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme made a dramatic appearance with his two children on Saturday on the pitch at Molineux, the ground of...
Grassroots football specialist, Seyi Akinwunmi is again organizing the U-13 tournament aimed at raising new generations of footballers in the country. Akinwunmi, the first vice president...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the possibility of Nigeria playing their next home game in Kaduna, Gernot Rohr has lamented the inability of the Super Eagles to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Retired Super Eagles’ goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme could have been part of the coaching crew to Victoria, the capital city of the Indian Ocean...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Super Eagles players will no longer converge in Nigeria for the away match with Seychelles in the Matchday 2 of the 2019...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Perhaps there is no better slogan for the Super Eagles this season better than “Changi 2018”. From the account of the coach, Gernot...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A friendly match in which Ahmed Musa may likely captain Nigeria is in the offing in Saudi Arabia. Super Eagles’ coach, Gernot...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr has named three debutants in his 24-man team that will travel next month to face Seychelles in the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Victor Moses may still be named in the Nigerian squad when the list is released on Friday. According to KweséESPN, Nigeria’s coach, Gernot...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ skipper, Mike John Obi has been excused from the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Seychelles next month. His media advisor...
The players likely to feature in Super Eagles’ next fixture against Seychelles will be unveiled on Friday, a press release by the NFF has indicated. Nigeria...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. There are indications that the Super Eagles may return to the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna as the next qualifying matches for the 2019...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Change of manager in Chelsea and an anticipated keen competition for playing time in the club are main reasons Victor Moses made...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In 2012, The FA in England decided to trace and honour the living descendants of the eight founding fathers that created the body...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick said that the body has presented to the Nigerian government, plans to avert future crisis within the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is a well known fact that the Nigeria Football federation (NFF), previously NFA was affiliated to FIFA and CAF in 1959, but...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The fear of possible backlash has been the major reasons football officials have been reluctant to correct the foundation date of the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung has welcomed the intervention of the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo which saved Nigeria from a suspension...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The phrase: “Founded 1945” adorns the circular emblem of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). It stems from the fallacy that the organisation was...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On Monday, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) escaped a ban by world football governing body, FIFA. But this Tuesday August 21, the federation...
World football governing body, FIFA has confirmed that it has received confirmations that the legitimate leadership of the NFF under President Amaju Melvin Pinnick and General...
With the Nigerian government affirming the FIFA recognized leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), a possible ban of the country from international football engagements has...
Nigeria’s Enyimba boosted their chances of advancing in the CAF Confederation Cup after securing a 0-1 away win over Djoliba of Mali on Sunday night. Farouk...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The clock is fast ticking down to 12 noon of Monday, August 20; the deadline given to Nigeria to give the full authority...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PAST September 1953 – FIFA erroneously blacklisted Nigeria. December 1960 – FIFA queried Nigeria for ill-treatment of Referee Kenneth Aston...
Nigeria’s sole survivors in CAF inter-clubs competition, Enyimba are already Mali-bound hoping to come out unscathed away in Bamako in their Group C Day Five clash...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Officials and players of the Super Eagles, including Coach Gernot Rohr were aware that Victor Moses had the intention of calling it...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the deadline given by FIFA for the resolution of the crisis in Nigerian football administration fast approaches, the global football governing...
The road came to an end for Nigeria’s Falconets in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup as they lost 1-2 to Spain in Thursday’s quarter-finals duel....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Speedy right winger and Nigeria’s highest World Cup scorer, Ahmed Musa has paid glowing tribute to Victor Moses, who on Wednesday announced...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria national football team, the Super Eagles clock 69 this Thursday and are one year away from milestone 70th anniversary. What has...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As earlier reported by www.sportsvillagesquare.com, Nigeria’s Opeyemi Sunday has been ruled out of Thursday’s quarter finals match with Spain in the FIFA U-20...
Nigeria’s U20 girls tackle their counterparts from Spain on Thursday for a place in the semi finals of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals, with...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Back winger, Victor Moses, has retired from Super Eagles joining the growing army of Russia 2018 players who are quitting international football. Moses,...
Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has described Nigeria’s Falconets’ last minute draw against China as superlative. The Falconets scored a late minute equalizer through...
The world football governing body may have run out of patience over the lingering crisis in the administration of football in Nigeria and Ghana. In a...
Like a blistering snake on a green grass, Super Eagles’ most successful World Cup striker, Ahmed Musa, wasted no time in stamping his marks in Saudi...
FIFA.com has hailed the fashion in which the Nigerian U-20 women’s team earned a dramatic late draw with China PR in Dinan-Lehon on Monday. The result...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the Nigeria Falconets file out to face Spain at Stade Guy-Priou in Conceameau in Thursday’s quarter finals of the U-20 Women’s World...
An own goal in stoppage time by China PR earned Nigeria a highly-dramatic 1-1 draw in Dinan-Lehon, with the West Africans claiming a spot in the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Even 29 years after, no one could specifically point to the real cause of the sudden collapse on the pitch and the eventual...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. A highly –motivated Nigeria U20 girls’ squad is exuding confidence of earning a berth in the 9thFIFA U20 Women’s World Cup quarter...
BY NNEKA IKEM ANIBEZE. Nigeria’s sports minister, Solomon Dalung has declared that he was optimistic that the Falconets of Nigeria will clinch a quarter final-ticket...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When Nigeria’s midfielder, Samuel Okwaraji slumped unchallenged and died on the turf of the National Stadium, Lagos on August 12, 1989, during Nigeria’s...
The registration for the Ogun State Football Association developmental competitions will commence on Wednesday and closes on August 27. According to a statement from the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. This Sunday marks the 29th anniversary of the most celebrated on-field death in Nigerian football. The August 12, 1989 Italia ’90 World Cup qualifying...
The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) is among 13 national leagues in Africa and the Australian league that will be participating in a Confederation of African...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. China’s left winger, Qiwen Jiaxing, will miss the destiny-shaping encounter with Nigeria in the Group D second place decider of the FIFA...
Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa got a rousing welcome from supporters of Al-Nassr when he arrived King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh on Friday. The supporters waved the club...
Chiamaka Nnadozie’s outstanding saves secured 1-0 win for Nigeria over Haiti on Thursday in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. The goalkeeper was key player for...
The 2018 edition of Sir Kessignton Adebukunola Adebutu age grade competition has reached the quarter finals in the male category and the semi finals in the...
Rasheedat Ajibade’s first-half penalty kick was enough to see Nigeria edge Haiti 1-0 in Group D at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 to...
The election into the next cycle of NFF board originally fixed for September 29 has been moved to September 20, five days to the court hearing...
Germany have defeated China 2-0 in the Match Day 2 encounter of FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup at Saint-Malo on Thursday afternoon. The win has a...
Smarting from their opening match loss to Germany, Nigeria’s Falconets are condemned to win their Thursday afternoon fixture with debutants, Haiti, as the Group D of...
Strong indications emerged last night that former Golden Eaglets player and one time record signing of English Premier League side Watford Isaac Success is close to...
Super Eagles’ World Cup goalkeeper, Francis Uzoho, who was racially abused by club coach in Deportivo La Coruna, Carmelo Del Pozo, has received an apology. He...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It has been 28 years this Tuesday since the golden voice of sports commentary on radio in Nigeria, Ernest Okonkwo, went beyond...
A second-half strike by Stefanie Saunders gave Germany a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their opening Group D match at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup...
Former chairman of the then Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Col. Abdulmuninu Aminu (rtd) is the head of a six-man Elders Stakeholders Reconciliation Committee constituted by the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s Gift Monday who was initially placed on caution list ahead of Monday’s match with Germany in the Group D tie of the...
BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The ever captivating English Premier League opener is just a few days away. But the Nigerian players who feature in what is easily the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the Nigeria’s Super Falconets take on Germany in a Group D match of the FIFA U-20 Women World Cup at the Stade...
Owing to cards carried over from the qualifying series, especially in the match with South Africa in Benin City last year, Gift Monday must play carefully...
Nigerian officials are off to France for the Falconets adventure as the 9th edition of FIFA U-21 Women’s World Cup kicks off on Sunday. According to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA There are four games on the card as the FIFA U-20 kicks off this Sunday in France. Hosts, France face Ghana while cup...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. FIFA has warned that Nigeria’s Gift Monday will not be eligible for Nigeria’s match with Haiti on Thursday if she gets a yellow...
A foundation run by former Super Eagles’ striker, John Utaka is set to participate in the 2018 five aside SATUC World Cup slated to hold between...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Foremost Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Rivers United have expressed satisfaction over its front shirt sponsorship deal with Africa-focused and leading...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On Sunday, France will be hosting the ninth edition of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup as the tournament runs from August 5...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons were the 22nd team to land for the France 2018 FIFA U-21 Women’s World Cup. The Nigerian side arrived Dinan on Thursday and...
The eighth best scorer at the Russia 2018 World Cup, Ahmed Musa of Nigeria has secured his anticipated transfer from Leicester City to Al-Nassr, the Saudi...
Following the unimpressive run at the Russia 2018 World Cup in which Argentina could not get past the second stage and the exit of Coach Jorge...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With two days to the official kick-off of the 2018 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Brittany region of France, Nigeria’s Falconets, recurring competitors...
The Extra ordinary general assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that sat in Benin City on Thursday reviewed the case of FC Giwa that...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The extraordinary Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF), which is the country’s highest football decision making body has giving conditions to be...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Amaju Pinnick led executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has resolved to lift the ban on Chris Giwa who has...
Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Authur Okowa on Wednesday heaped praises on Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari for saving Nigeria huge embarrassment with his good –natured intervention...
Solomon Dalung, the Minister of Youth and Sports in Nigeria has frowned at the poor management of the welfare of the country’s athletes, players and officials....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. This Monday is the 46th anniversary of the death of one of the earliest icons of Nigerian football – Tesilimi ‘Thunder’ Balogun in...
Nigeria’s sole survivor in continental club competition, Enyimba on Sunday tumbled from being table topper to the third position, risking possible elimination from CAF Confederation Cup...
Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets, will depart from their final training camp in Tirol, Austria on Thursday for the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup, with high level...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has promised to bridge the welfare gap between the men and women’s national teams of the country. He...
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced that it will offer retired Super Eagles’ goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme coaching education as a goalkeeper trainer and then absorb him...
Though missing in action, Mikel Obi’s Chinese club, Tianjin TEDA has returned to the winning way as the team had an away 2-3 win against Dalian...
According to 90min publication, 191 appearances isn’t usually enough to cement yourself as a club legend. But some players are special in the sense that what...
As the world continue to pay tributes to Carl Ikeme, the Nigeria hitherto first choice goalkeeper who retired this Friday on health ground, his English clubside,...
Former Super Eagles’ number one goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, who earlier this Friday announced his retirement from the game is full of gratitude to the sporting world...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) this Friday announced that it has noted some media reports arising from a BBC documentary involving the Chief Coach of...
Super Eagles and Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, who was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in July 2017 and had been undergoing chemotherapy treatment, has announced his...
After the World Cup, it appears it is a season of fatherhood for Super Eagles’ players as Ahmed Musa has also announced the arrival of his...
BY OLADIMEJI OSHODE. Ikenne-based Remo Stars Football Club will on Saturday face MFM of Lagos in a mid season friendly encounter designed to test the new...
With just ten days to go before the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 gets under way in the region of Brittany, FIFA has...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Was it a sheer coincidence? Former Nigeria’s left winger, Kunle Awesu died on a July 5 date. Another national team player and contemporary...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles defender, William Troost-Ekong is now a father. He announced the arrival of his baby, Oscar, through a twitter post. Within few...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On Wednesday, it was 49 years that Israel Adebajo, the founder of the oldest surviving club in Nigeria, Stationary Stores FC of Lagos,...
Nigeria’s Alex Iwobi may have shut the door against the interest expressed in him by Italia Serie A club, Lazio as he is set to extend...
Hope is rising for Nigerian football as the U-15 national team cruised on a high altitude to the final of the African Youth Games in Algeria....
With the France’ defender, Benjamin Pavard’s goal which initially put score line at 2-2 in a 4-3 defeat of Argentina already revealed as the best goal...
Fans all over the world have voted for Benjamin Pavard’s stunner as Hyundai Goal of the Russia 2018 World Cup. The 22-year-old netted sublime equaliser for...
Former Nigeria football team international and captain, Segun Odegbami has ventured into politics and is aspiring to become the next governor of the South Western state,...
Just as the transfer markets in the various football leagues of Europe have come agog, so also are those of the political fields and football administration...
Sources at a football stakeholders’ meeting held at the instance of Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, have disclosed that a ‘committee of elders’ has been set...
Super Eagles’ coach, Salisu Yusuf, may have been boxed into a tight corner as he has been caught on camera taking cash from men posing as...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With voting closed on Monday, the result of the poll for the best goal of Russia 2018 World Cup will be unveiled this...
The Nigeria Football federation (NFF) has released a copy of a letter from the from the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has reacted to the Monday morning reinstatement of Amaju Pinnick’s board of the Nigeria Football Association (NFF), stating...
Confederation of African Football (CAF) First President, Amaju Pinnick who was on Monday reinstated as the Nigeria Football Federation president after nearly three week lacuna has...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Normalcy may have returned to the governing body of Nigerian football, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the Department of State Security (DSS)...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Voting ends this Monday for the selection of the best goal of Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup. Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa’s second goal against...
Italia Serie A side, Lazio are reportedly preparing a €25m bid for Super Eagles’ Arsenal striker, Alex Iwobi. Sources in Italian publication, Calcio Mercato report that Iwobi...
English Premiership side, Leicester City have rejected a £12million bid from Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr for in-form Nigerian striker Ahmed Musa. The Nigerian striker whose...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A total 154 out of the 230 Nigerians that were stranded in Russia after the World Cup have returned home. According to Chukwujekwu...
The delegation of Nigeria’s U20 Women National Team, Falconets, has touched down in the Austrian city of Tirol for a final training camp ahead of the...
The Croatian AC Milan striker, Nikola Kalinic who was sent home after the team’s opening match with Nigeria has rejected the World Cup silver medal given...
The ship finally set sail. Now there is no turning back. I had my baptism into partisan politics on Wednesday in Abeokuta. It almost did not...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigerian Community in Russia, NCR has informed www.sportsvillagesquare.com that stranded Nigerians at the just concluded World Cup tournament will be airlifted to...
The Nigeria U15 National Team, nicknamed Future Eagles, has been drawn to play Morocco, Djibouti and Libya in the football tournament of the 3rd African Youth Games...
BY DEMOLA OLAJIRE. Norwegian club, IK Start has granted the request of Nigeria Football Federation to release former Super Eagles B star Afeez Olalekan Aremu to...
Nigeria Football Federation may lose one of its main sponsors, AITEO as the firm on Wednesday gave a 14-day ultimatum for the resolution of the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has refuted claims circulating on various WhatsApp platforms in Nigeria that the crisis rocking Nigeria football administration has...
“Today, I shall start another journey in my pilgrimage here on earth. I am venturing into a space that I am not familiar with. My...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The power ranking of the 32 teams that featured at the World Cup 2018 put the Super Eagles at number 20. The Nigerian...
Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa is included among 10 World Cup stars whose good performance may earn them better transfers in the coming days. Musa’s brilliant double...
With FIFA launching a poll to pick the best of the 169 goals scored at the Russia 2018 World Cup, Ahmed Musa’s classy goal, the second...
A South African publication, Daily Maverick has chronicled the pain and the magical ways Nigeria’s Mikel Obi rose to the occasion to still have a good...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The World Cup 2018 may be over, but the memories will continue to linger. Little wonder, President Vladimir Putin has extended the validity...
BY HARRY IWUALA. The League Management Company (LMC) Monday announced an indefinite suspension of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) which was scheduled to resume from...
Former Nigeria international, Chief Segun Odegbami will on Wednesday formerly declare his gubernatorial intention. In media release by the former speedy right winger, he said he...
BY NNEKA IKEM ANIBEZE. Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has applauded Chief Ifeanyi Ubah for his initiative for the Project 1 Family 1 Footballer (1F1F) he...
The chairman of Nigeria Professional Football League side, Chief Emeka Inyama has thrown his hat into the political ring. In a message to www.sportsvillagesquare.com, he...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With FIFA launching a poll to pick the best of the 169 goals scored at the Russia 2018 World Cup, Ahmed Musa’s classy...
One of Africa’s most illustrious former footballers, Segun Odegbami is shifting attention from sports politics into full time politics and has decided to go into governance....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The first coach to handle a U-16 World Cup winning side, Nigeria’s Sebastian Brodricks-Imasuen has clocked 80 this Sunday. He is a former...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. The contingent of Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, departed Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania on Sunday morning following a 1-1 draw with their Mauritanian...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the World Cup 2018 closing this Sunday, FIFA has come up with the financial earnings of each of the 32 teams that...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Another major milestone is reached on Sunday when France play Croatia in the final match of the Russia 2018 World Cup. Not only...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Relief has come for the stranded Nigerians in Russia as the Lagos State Governor; Akinwunmi Ambode has decided to fund their trip...
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, will be on duty again this Saturday as the Match Commissioner in-charge of the FIFA 2018 World...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Now trending on German TV station Deutsche Welle and Russian television station, Moscow 24, is the plight of Nigerians who were apparently trafficked...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Once again, world football governing body, FIFA has made its stand clear on the situations surrounding the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. FIFA...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Over 200 Nigerians will to leave Moscow back home as the World Cup is winding down are reportedly stranded at the Terminal A...
Africa’s retired speedy winger, Segun Odegbami, has thanked all those who congratulated him for the his appointment as an ambassador by a UN agency, Non Communicable...
Following the failure of the Jos court to deliver judgment in the case between the embattled NFF President and CAF First Vice President, Amaju Pinnick and...
One of Africa’s most talented former footballers, Segun Odegbami, has been appointed as an ambassador of a United Nations Agency, Non Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance. Odegbami...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Josep “Pep” Guardiola Sala, better known as Pep Guardiola is the manager of English Premier League champions, Manchester City. He was the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. With excuses from Gernot Rohr on of having the youngest squad and the referee of the match with Argentina not awarding a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Former Nigeria international goalkeeper Idah Peterside who is also a former media officer of the Super Eagles has blasted Nigeria’s manager, Gernot...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Expectedly, it was a moody and sombre atmosphere in the Nigerian locker room after the defeat by Argentina in Saint Petersburg. Nigeria’s coach,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Officials of Nigerian residents in Russia have complained about the way the country executed the 2018 World Cup outing in Russia, pointing out...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s coach, Gernot Rohr believes Turkish referee, Cuneyt Cakir erred by not giving a second penalty kick award to Nigeria in the last...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria Super Eagles’ coach, Gernot Rohr has dismissed the possibility of his throwing in the towel after Super Eagles’ exit from Russia 2018....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles’ manager, Gernot Rohr has told a South African publication, Soccer Laduma, the reasons why his team got close to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. At last, football may be returning home. England, widely believed to be the birthplace of modern football may have finally woken up from...
Former Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde is impressed with the charity work that ex-international, Paul Okoku in championing through the Greater Tomorrow Children’s Foundation (GTCF). Onigbinde...
A former national coach and technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation, James Peters, has dragged the organisation to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)....
Embattled Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, has been appointed as the 1st Vice-President of the continental football governing body, the Confederation of African Football, CAF....
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has condemned the kidnapping of Pa Michael John Obi, father of the Super Eagles’ Captain John Mikel Obi....
A Russian couple has fallen apart over disagreement on the better player between Portugal and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina and FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi....
BY SEGUN ODEGBAMI, LONDON. I am getting ready for the big match this evening. Now that Nigeria and the Super Eagles have become forgotten history,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, MOSCOW. Nigeria’s skipper, Mikel Obi has opened up on the trauma he went through as he led the Super Eagles in...
BY SEGUN ODEGBAMI, SAINT PETERSBURG. It’s been a lonely morning. Last night was horrible with the pictures from the carnages in Jos and in Lagos to...
BY MITCHEL OBI, SAINT PETERSBURG In faith and with hope. Nigerians had a huge dose of this mix before the debacle in St Petersburg. For...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. The shirt that Argentine super star, Lionel Messi wore in last Tuesday encounter with Nigeria has become a memorable souvenir for...
Diego Maradona said he has recovered following an apparent illness occasioned by the tension the Nigeria – Argentina match generated. He reportedly said on Wednesday morning...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Former Nigeria international goalkeeper and media officer of the Super Eagles, Idah Peterside said that the Super Eagles’ ouster from Russia...
The tension that attended the Nigeria-Argentina match last Tuesday almost claim a major casualty owing to the build-up tension and the attendant pressure during the match...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. Lionel Messi who puts Argentina on victory path in the last Group D match against Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Solomon Dalung, has described Nigeria’s 1-2 loss to Argentina on Tuesday as unfortunate. The Minister of Youth and Sports who led Federal Government’s...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick was still somewhat downcast on Wednesday, but he assured thenff.com that heartfelt disappointment over elimination from the FIFA World Cup...
The President of CAF Appeal Board, A. U. Mustapha (SAN) has praised the endeavour of the Super Eagles at the FIFA World Cup finals in Russia,...
BY PATRICK EKEJI. So to who shall Amaju Pinnick dedicate the Super Eagles’ loss? But let me say that our boys played their hearts out. Yes...
BY SEGUN ODEGBAMI, SAINT PETERSBURG. The journey has ended. For Nigeria and for Nigerians the World Cup adventure is over. Even without playing well the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. The psychic cat named Achilles which has been predicting outcome of matches at Russia 2018 has predicted a Nigeria victory over...
BY SEGUN ODEGBAMI, SAINT PETERSBURG. There are few hours to the start of the ‘Third World War’. I am alone in my room in Park Inn...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Seventeen people, most of them from Nigeria and Morocco and holding World Cup fan identity documents, have tried to enter Poland...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. When the Round of 16 of Russia 2018 begins, the teams will be kicking a different brand of the official...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. The psychic cat named Achilles which has been predicting outcome of matches at Russia 2018 has predicted a Nigeria victory over...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. Although not officially designated as Group of Death, the Group D of Russia 2018 is living up to that billing. In...
Never in the history of Saint Petersburg has it seen such an unending influx of Nigerians and Argentines. Large contingents of nationals of both countries have...
The Nigeria Super Eagles will give it their best shot when they tackle Argentina in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday to guarantee a fourth Round of 16...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Owing to the injury time injury sustained by Super Eagles’ skipper, Mikel Obi, Coach Gernot Rohr said the left wrist is...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Nigeria’s Bryan Idowu is already excited at playing against Argentina in Saint Petersburg, the city of his birth. He remarked that...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Ahead of the match with Argentina, a major concern in the Nigerian camp is the vulnerability of the team in set...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Super Eagles defender who became Nigeria’s 59th scoring debutant after putting the Super Eagles ahead in last November’s friendly encounter...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Former Nigeria’s captain, Segun Odegbami whose speedy runs on the right flanks accounted for many goals for Nigeria in the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The turmoil in the Argentina camp is going unabated. It is gathered that striker, Sergio Aguero who is the team’s only scorer so...
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed joy at news that Super Eagles’ goaltender Carl Ikeme has entered into complete remission from acute leukemia. This means he...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. The tactical work Argentina’s coach, Jorge Sampaoli may have planned for the Tuesday’s encounter with Nigeria may have leaked. Daily Mail...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Lionel Messi who clocks 31 this Sunday is one of the two famous players Argentina has produced. The other global icon...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. The camp of Argentina has degenerated into a state of anarchy as relationship between the players and Coach Jorge Sampaoli...
BY SEGUN ODEGBAMI, SAINT PETERSBURG. It is Sunday morning in Saint Petersburg. The mood around Park Inn Hotel is different today. It is very much like...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Nigeria’s speedy striker, Ahmed Musa is undoubtedly the man of the moment. His name dominates both the airtime and editorial space...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. Super Eagles’ skipper, Mikel Obi may this Tuesday get the opportunity of playing his 85th international game when Nigeria face Argentina...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. Former Nigeria captain and a FIFA legend, Nwankwo Kanu was on hand on Friday at Volgograd to psych up the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Success has many brothers, sisters, cousins and other relations. Following the superlative performance of speedy striker, Ahmed Musa in the...
The Super Eagles have flown back to their World Cup team base camp in Essentuki, advising that further drumming and singing be kept on hold until...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has dedicated the Super Eagles’ 2-0 win over Iceland at the FIFA World Cup on Friday to President...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, VOLGOGRAD. Minutes before the end of the hope-lifting win over Iceland on Friday in Volgograd, Nigeria’s skipper, Mikel Obi had a fall on...
Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa’s exploits in Super Eagles’ 2-0 defeat of Iceland has projected the speedy Nigerian into global prominence. FIFA website put up a feature on...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, VOLGOGRAD. Man of the moment, Ahmed Musa who is the first Nigerian player to achieve a brace and also doing so in...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, VOLGOGRAD. Super Eagles truly became super as they switched the pendulum from a possible first round elimination and brightened hopes of getting...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, VOLGOGRAD. One of the fastest wingers to have come from Africa, Segun Odegbami psyched up the Super Eagles on the eve of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. The other player of the famed Nigeria ‘Oyinbo Wall”, William Ekong-Troost may miss the encounter with Argentina in Saint Petersburg if...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have arrived in the southern Russia town of Volgograd ahead of Friday’s win-or-bust World Cup Group D encounter against Iceland. The hopeful Nigerian...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The match with Iceland on Friday could be the turning point for the better for Nigeria’s Super eagles who since Brazil 2014 have...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. It has gone the usual way – the resort to the calculator to weigh Nigeria’s chances. Many Nigerians will keenly...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, RUSSIA. When Nigeria take on Iceland on Friday in Volgograd, a battle of epic proportion is expected. Nigeria’s qualification for the next...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, RUSSIA. An American residing in New Zealand, Matthew Conger, will be in charge when Nigeria faces Iceland in a potentially fierce battle to...
Super Eagles’ former defender, Rabiu Afolabi has admitted that the Super Eagles won’t have it easy against the Iceland side when they clash in the second...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, RUSSIA. The Battle of Volgograd which pitches life-line supported Super Eagles of Nigeria against Iceland in World Cup Group D encounter is going...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, VOLGOGRAD-BOUND. When Super Eagles of Nigeria face Iceland on Friday, it will be Nigeria’s 20th World Cup match in history. It is also...
The First Vice President of Nigeria Football Federation, Seyi Akinwunmi reiterated on Tuesday that the Super Eagles have put behind them the disappointment of defeat by...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, SAINT PETERSBURG. Manchester United coach, Jose Mourinho said he is pained the way Nigeria lost to Croatia on Saturday. The maverick coach who...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, ST. PETERSBURG. When Tunisia takes on England this evening at Volgograd Stadium, the African side will be attempting to have its first...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. When Luka Modric converted the 71st minute spot kick for Croatia in Saturday’s match against Nigeria, it was not just a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. The 2-0 loss to Croatia notwithstanding, Super Eagles’ coach is optimistic that his players will recover and at least get four...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. Leon Balogun who was earlier injured has made a rapid recovery and will be starting in the game with Croatia later today....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. The streets of Kaliningrad, the Russian western city is virtually painted red on Saturday, few hours to the potentially explosive encounter with...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. As a player, Davor Suker was sensational. He topped the goal chart at the World Cup 20 years ago in France...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick on the day the Super Eagles face Croatia in the World Cup is optimistic of a...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD. There will be high profiled personalities at the stadium in the Group D encounter of Nigeria and Croatia. The Governor of the...
Known as ‘General Mikel’ by the Nigerian senior team playing body and backroom staff for his brilliant hold –up play, vision and authority on the field,...
Nigeria’s Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr declared on Thursday that Nigeria’s Super Eagles are “physically and mentally ready” for their first match of the 2018 FIFA World...
Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, as well as the Minister of Works, Power and Steel, Babatunde Raji Fashola and the Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, KALININGRAD-BOUND. Apart from breaking an apparent 20-year jinx that has prevented the Super Eagles from scoring in their successive World Cup opening...
On the eve of the biggest celebration in world football, Nigeria star William Troost-Ekong has kicked-off a World Cup fund-raising campaign by the football movement Common...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, LENHNISKI STADIUM, MOSCOW. Sandro Meira Ricci, a Brazilian civil servant has been assigned to handle the Group D encounter of Nigeria with Croatia...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, MOSCOW. Will the Super Eagles break jinx and score against Croatia on Saturday? This Wednesday, it is 20 years since the Nigerian Super...
The World stood still as the Super Eagles, exuding great confidence flew into Russia in style. Their arrival could not escape global attention as even, the...
Four goals by Desire Oparanozie and a brace by Asisat Oshoala enabled reigning champions Nigeria to spell GAMBIA in Lagos on Monday and qualify for the...
Like compatriot, Leon Balogun, Super Eagles’ midfielder, Oghenekaro Etebo is not one of the players who will be using the World Cup as a shop window...
This Monday, like the other seven contingents of Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Mexico, Serbia Switzerland and Tunisia, the Super Eagles will arrive Russia at Essentuki which will...
As the kick-off of the Russia 2018 draw closer, so also is the sporting world getting set to witness the most followed sport, football at its...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The controversy on the actual foundation date of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, may soon be laid to rest. The NFF president,...
The Super Falcons are set to make sure of a place in the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations at the expense of Gambia’s Queen Scorpions in...
The Super Eagles will fly out of their Avita Resort in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria to Russia on Monday for the 21st FIFA World Cup finals – their...
The static, if not dwindling ranking of Nigeria’s position in FIFA rankings, the four-match no win streak and the tagging of Nigeria as mere World Cup-...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As anxiety mounts over Nigeria’s build up to the World Cup which kicks off on Thursday in Russia, team officials have come out...
With the World Cup just days away, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has made moves to avert major distractions that could be disturbing in Nigeria’s camp....
Following the latest raking released on Thursday and possibly judging by Nigeria’s results in last four friendly matches, FIFA has tagged the Super Eagles as mere...
BY CHICHI SOLOMON. President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode as a member of the Federal Government Delegation to the 2018 FIFA World...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Irrespective of any opposing view, the Nigerian Federal Executive Council scored a major goal by the honour and recognition given Bashorun MKO Abiola,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Author of a new book on the history of football in Nigeria, Dr. Wiebe Boer, has also asserted that the “Founded 1945”...
Nigeria’s women’s team, Super Falcons in Bakau, beat their hosts, The Gambia by a lone goal in the first leg of a 2018 Women Africa Cup...
200 of the 736 players summoned to Russia have been to the FIFA World Cup™ before. 186 were at Brazil 2014, 61 were at South Africa...
Luca Modric, the skipper of Nigeria’s first Russia 20018 World Cup opponents, Croatia has been charged with perjury in a fraud case in Croatia. He is...
By KUNLE SOLAJA. Even before the first kick of the ball at the Russia 2018 World Cup, records are already being set as 200 players of...
Nigeria’s Moses Simon who lost a possible 2018 World Cup career may have found solace in a possible move to one of the top English Premiership...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As it was 20 years ago in the days leading to France ’98, the Super Eagles have failed to make impression in the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the days to the World Cup kick-off now in single digit, the Super Eagles are in search of a spirit-lifting performance...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons will not under-rate their Gambia counterparts when the whistle goes for kick-off in their 2018 Women Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match at...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Every World Cup produces dramatic goals. Yet, there were also goals that were unintended – the own goals. There have been just...
An aspirant to the presidential seat in Nigeria in next year’s general elections, Kingsley Moghalu, a professor, is optimistic of the Nigerian’s Super Eagles posting positive...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Two suspected thieves who stole $11,000 from the luggage of Nigeria’s legendary footballer, Nwankwo Kanu, have been arrested. According to a statement...
Players and officials of the Super Eagles are pouring encomiums on the Nigeria Football Federation for doing the needful to secure the world –renowned Avita Resort...
The delegation of Nigeria’s Women national team, Super Falcons, has arrived in Banjul, capital of The Gambia, on Monday, ahead of Wednesday’s 2018 Women Africa Cup...
Nigeria’s 2018 FIFA World Cup –bound squad members have been taken through the paces of the world body’s integrity initiative, as they were fully briefed by...
Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic, who had named one extra player for his provisional World Cup squad, on Monday announced that defender Matej Mitovic was the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the official confirmation of players for the Russia 2018 World Cup, the shirt numbers of the players have also been confirmed. For...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nine of the German players who featured at the 2014 World Cup where the team emerged champions, are returning for the 2018 edition....
Nigeria’s Senior Women Football Team, Super Falcons, will on Monday fly to Banjul, capital of Gambia for the first leg of their 2018 Women Africa Cup...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Plucky Sunshine Stars put up a defensive master class on Sunday to shut out Rivers...
Nigeria’s 2018 FIFA World Cup squad have arrived and settled down at the Avita Resort in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria on Sunday evening, as Coach Gernot Rohr...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung has hailed the Super Eagles despite their 1-2 loss to Three Lions of England in a pre- World...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The Nigeria Super Eagles 2-1 defeat to England in Wembley on June 2, 2018 is the third straight defeat the national team will...
Following trending insinuations on the social media that the NFF boss, Amaju Pinnick may have diverted the sponsorship fund that the Rivers State Government paid for...
Nigeria put up a more spirited effort in the second half of their pre World Cup encounter with England to put the score line at...
As the England- Nigeria kicked off at the Wembley Stadium, every move by Tottenham Hotspur and England Striker Bamidele Alli at Wembley, was jeered by...
It’s the World Cup’s most anticipated football kit. The queues snaked down London’s Regent’s Street on Friday as Nigeria fans waited to get their hands on...
BY AKEEM BUSARI. A Nigeria Nationwide League side, Phoenix Athletics Sports Club in Ado Ekiti is initiating a program designed to uplift football...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Carl Ikeme, the erstwhile Super Eagles’ numero uno goalkeeper who is receiving treatment for leukaemia could be the guest of honour at this...
Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr was among the eminent coaches of the world who gave pep talk to global audience and fans who will be attending...
BY CLARKSON OGO. Latest invitee to the Nigerian U-15 squad, Lateef Omidiji Jr. dazzled in the first training session he attended with the team. The...
The Football Association on Thursday named Italian official Marco Guida as referee for Saturday’s prestige friendly between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and England’s Three Lions at Wembley...
Nigeria and England go toe-to-toe in what promises to be a thrilling Russia 2018 preparatory game for both teams at the Wembley Stadium in London on...
A former Nigerian international, Emmanuel Amuneke and another former coach of Nigeria at the World Cup in 1998, Bora Milutinović are among a group of analysts...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. England’s central defender, Phil Jones, will be missing in action when the Super Eagles take on the Three Lions at the iconic...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. After meeting President Muhamadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Wednesday morning, the Super Eagles who will face England on Saturday at the...
The range of kits for the Super Eagles will be on sale this Friday, the eve of the friendly match with England at the Wembley...
BY CLARKSON OGO. Nigeria wonder boy in the diaspora, Lateef Omidiji Jr. who recently got a call-up to the Nigerian U-15 squad preparing for the African...
Skipper Mikel John Obi was joined on the chartered flight from Abuja to London on Wednesday afternoon by deputy skipper Ogenyi Onazi, defender Kenneth Omeruo, pacy...
The rainy season is here for the Super Eagles of Nigeria as they begin their final preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia....
Like a true sportsman, one of the dropped Super Eagles’ players, Stephen Eze has accepted his fate in good spirit, Even though the list...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The period of waiting is drawing to a close for the final list of the World Cup-bound Super Eagles. Days ago, there were...
As the Super Eagles of Nigeria prepares to leave the shores of the country to Europe and begin the final preparations for the Russia 2018 World...
Reactions are trailing the call by the Nigerian sports minister, Solomon Dalung, that the election plans into the next board of the Nigeria Football federation (NFF)...
The Russia 2018 World Cup –bound Super Eagles contingent will now meet with His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday morning. The...
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr and Team Captain, Mikel John Obi have eulogized the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation for the seminar on wealth creation...
Nigeria’s sports minister, Solomon Dalung has urged the Nigeria Football Federation to shelve all plans for elections into its next board and concentrate on the FIFA...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Bursaspor defender, William Troost-Ekong, has expressed delight after scoring his first international goal for Nigeria in the Super Eagles’ 1-1 draw against DR Congo...
An Argentine media outfit, TyCSports is delighted over the injury blow on the Super Eagles which has led to the exclusion of Moses Simon from the...
Home grown Anthony Okpotu of Lobi Stars caused a major upset in the Nigeria Pitch Awards in Port Harcourt as he beat regular Super Eagles’ stars,...
Inside sources have revealed to the Sports Village Square that the final 23-man Super Eagles’ list will be released at the weekend, possibly after the...
Nigeria’s 1-1 draw with DR Congo on Monday in Port Harcourt was expectedly monitored by Super Eagles’ perceived main rivals in Group D of Russia 2018,...
Former Secretary General of Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) Fanny Amun has identified the poor state of playing turfs in the country as one of the biggest...
For the first time Nigeria failed to win a sendoff to the World Cup match. The team was forced to a 1-1 draw by the visiting...
The slogan, ‘The Wings of African Pride’ will adorn the Super Eagles’ team buses at each of their match venues in Russia. This is sequel to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. In his quest to win the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup, Argentine and world football legend, Lionel Messi has tasked team mates...
Football legend, Diego Maradona has again lashed out at Jorge Sampaoli, the coach of Argentina, the main Super Eagles’ rivals at the World Cup. According to...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It appears that both Nigeria and Argentina have mutual respect for each other. Despite the apprehension that most Nigerians have about Argentina, especially...
The leadership of Nigeria Football Federation has concluded arrangements for a seminar on wealth creation, investments and portfolio management for players and officials of the Super...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Two sporting personalities are among the quartet that the sports-loving governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike will honour on Tuesday. They are Honour...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles player and coach, Augustine Eguaveon as well as his contemporary in the national team, Mutiu Adepoju has urged the...
Just as it happened to central defender, Leon Balogun some days to the Brazil 2014 World Cup owing to injury, the same fate has befallen Moses...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Both Nigeria and DR Congo meet in Port Harcourt on Monday for the second time in farewell and fans’ appreciation match as the...
BY ADEMOLA OLAJIRE. In what represents the last opportunity for Nigerian football fans to cheer the Super Eagles at home before Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup...
The delegation of Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as Simba, flew into Port Harcourt on Thursday night ahead of Monday’s 2018 FIFA World Cup Send...
Defending champions, Nigeria will begin preparations for this year’s African Youth Games on Monday, with Coach Danladi Nasidi having invited a total of 29 players to...
President of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive (AIPS), Gianni Merlo will arrive in Nigeria on Sunday, May 27 on a three-day visit. Merlo...
The sterling performance of the class of 1994 of the Nigeria’s Super Eagles continue to receive accolades, even 24 years after. It was Nigeria’s debut at...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The FIFA World Cup stage remains the highest platform for the footballer. So, it is the desire of the player to grace the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ striker, Victor Moses who was excused from reporting to camp on Monday owing to his involvement in last weekend’s FA Cup...
Nigeria’s minister of sports, Solomon Dalung, who was in Lagos on Thursday for a briefing on Nigeria’s performance at the Commonwealth Games took time out to...
BY EMMANUEL JEMEGAH. It was a gathering of who’s who in Rivers state as the State Governor, Nyesom Wike led his cabinet, including the Deputy...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Beautiful ladies lined up to form a ‘guard of honour’ for Fernando Torres as he arrived Uyo airport along with teammates of Atletico...
The Nigerian Government has reaffirmed that the farewell to the World Cup match planned for the Super Eagles next week will still go on despite the...
Virtually all the star players of Spanish LaLiga giants, Atletico de Madrid, will feature in the friendly match against a Nigerian selected side in Uyo on...
Organizers of the prestigious Nigeria Pitch Awards have announced that the Nigeria Pitch Awards will hold in Port Harcourt next week. According to Shina Philips, initiator...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is on record that the first competition Nigeria’s football team featured in was the JALCO Cup – an annual contest between Nigeria...
As the Super Eagles gather this Monday in Uyo to begin the final preparation for the World Cup, defender, Kenneth Omeruo has a tall dream. Speaking...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The world football governing body which clocked 114 this Monday admitted Nigeria as its 87th member in Rome on August 22, 1960,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles are expected to assemble this Monday as preparation for their participation in next month’s World...
Seven-time African champions Nigeria reached the final round of the qualification series for the 2019 Africa U20 Cup of Nations after a 1-0 home defeat of...
Coach Thomas Dennerby has invited 10 foreign-based players to the camp of the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, ahead of next month’s Women African Cup...
The Nigeria Football Federation and the League Management Company have signed separate but similarly-useful partnership agreements with global online betting company, 1XBET. The company, which operates...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Victor Moses has buried the ghost of last year’s English FA Cup final match in which he was not just on the...
BY: AKEEM BUSARI The 2018 Lagos FA Cup is really living up to the high expectations of stakeholders and aficionados. As the beautiful and exciting brand...
Nigeria’s main opposition a the tricky Group D of the World Cup, Argentina, appears to have other motives apart from football in Russia. It was gathered...
The first black African to handle a team at the World Cup and ex-Super Eagles coach, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde as well as one of the best...
FIFA has announced that the teams featuring in next month’s World Cup will be supplied with small handheld technologies which coaches can use while on the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As camping date for the World Cup-bound Super Eagles approaches, the 30-man provisional list released by the coach, Gernot Rohr continues to get...
Barely a week to The Sun World Cup seminar holding in Port Harcourt, sports administrators and stakeholders have shown excitement at the event. With theme: “That Super...
The 30 players on the provisional list for Russia World Cup are to assemble at the Le Meridien Hotel and Golf Resort, Uyo, a release from...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria Football federation has released a provisional list of 30 players from which a final list of 23 will be made...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The proposed ceremonial World Cup sent-forth match for the Super Eagles in Port Harcourt will still go ahead, the Nigeria Football Federation boss,...
Current Argentina boss, Jorge Sampaoli and the coach of the 2014 World Cup squad, Alejandro Sabella have several similarities in the lists that both presented before...
Three of the players announced are debutants. They are: Franco Armani, Ricardo Centurion and Rodrigo Battaglia. Armani plays for with Atlético Nacional in Colombia. Ricardo Centurion,...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte has revealed that the departure of former Super Eagles’ defender and Chelsea’s technical director, Michael Emenalo caused a big...
With injury concerns over Spanish Sevilla defender, Gabriel Mercado, Argentina boss, Jorge Sampaoli is expected to unveil a provisional list of 35 players that may feature...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. After Enyimba with seven titles, the next most successful club in the 28-year old Nigeria Professional Football League is Kano Pillars which...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Even before the official list of the Russia 2018-bound Super Eagles is released, it is a reasonable guess that, barring injuries, CSKA Moscow...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ FIFA World Cup opponents, Iceland have released his 23 man list ahead the Russia 2018 World Cup. Team manager, Hallgrimsson whose...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The topmost tier of the Nigerian football league, the Nigeria Professional Football League enters its 21st match day this weekend. But the league...
BY CLARKSON OGO. Ahead of Saturday’s CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Guinea Bissau, Flying Eagles’ left back, Ogberahwe Solomon has expressed...
What had been going round as speculations have now been declared official. The Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles will face Atletico Madrid in a...
Leading video entertainment company, MultiChoice Nigeria and provider of digital terrestrial television platform, GOtv, is bringing leading Spanish LaLiga club, Atlético Madrid, to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Iceland which caused the biggest upset at the Euro 2016 in France is promising a repeat performance as the country faces the trio...
Midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has assured that the Super Eagles will be ready for action ahead of pre-World Cup friendly matches against the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
BY AKEEM BUSARI. With preparations getting to the final stage in the epoch making World Cup seminar being packaged by The Sun Publishing, another stakeholder has...
Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho scored his first premier league goal of the season as Leicester City compounds Arsenal woeful 2018 away matches in 3-1 victory...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Zlatko Dalic, the Coach of Nigeria’s first Russia 2018 opponents, Croatia, has enjoined his players to forget the old glory and face...
Another award has gone to the highly decorated governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike who on Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium was decorated as ‘Power of Sports...
Former Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi has throws his weight behind The Sun Publishing Limited’s World Cup seminar holding in...
Usual suspects topped the list as Match Makers Consults and its auditing partners, SIAO rolled out 54 possible winners in 18 categories of the fifth...
Argentina may be without their ever intimidating supporters when they face the Super Eagles in a World Cup potentially explosive match on June 26 in Saint...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The only Nigerian scorer at the 2002 World Cup, Julius Aghahowa has joined the increasing football enthusiasts who are applauding The Sun Publishing...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. One of the best sports technocrat to have come from Nigeria, Chief Patrick Ekeji has confirmed his participation in the landmark World Cup...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Man of history and doyen of Nigerian coaches, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has been announced as the lead speaker at the seminar: “That...
Nigeria’s Alex Iwobi was in a scoring form to give departing boss, Arsene Wenger a befitting home send off at Arsenal as the London side beat...
The Federal government has thrown its weight behind the mobilization of non- state resources for the Super Eagles’ participation at the 2018 FIFA World Cup scheduled...
Sikiru Olatunbosun has emerged the winner of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Match Day 18 VAT Wonder Goal award, adding to his accomplishment of...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Rivers United will face Abia Warriors in Port Harcourt on Sunday as the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) enters match day 20. United...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. One of the former Nigerian footballers in the diaspora, Charles Okoye has sounded a note of warning to the Super Eagles as...
Birthday boy, Alex Iwobi who clocked 22 on Thursday has sensationally revealed how training with ‘world class players’ at Arsenal put him in top shape to...
Journalist-turned football administrator, Emeka Inyama has hailed The Sun Publishing Limited for the initiative of a World Cup seminar that is geared towards advancing the advancement...
Excitement ahead of next month’s prestigious international friendly between Nigeria and England’s ‘A’ teams really began to build up on Thursday after the President of Nigeria...
Fanny Amun whose Golden Eaglets side projected Nwankwo Kanu into limelight, has hailed the May 22 World Cup Seminar being packaged by The Sun Publishing Limited....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the clock ticks down to the May 22 date of The Sun Publishing Limited’s seminar aimed at galvanising support for the World...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. When former Nigerian international attends Arsene Wenger’s last match as Arsenal’s manager, the former Nigerian captain will present the Frenchman, a special gift....
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles defensive midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has been crowned as Leicester City’s Young Player of the season for the second year running. The...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As the clock ticks down to the kick-off of Russia 2018, Nigeria’s national team coach seems enveloped in major concerns. According to...
The bid for the hosting rights of the 2026 World Cup has taken a diplomatic dimension as US president, Donald Trump has sought for support from...
Sikiru Alimi has the typical built of an active athlete and spots the scraggly beards that is trendy amongst contemporary youths globally. But his appearances does...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday reacted to Friday’s verdict by the Supreme Court on the lingering leadership tussle of the football governing body. The tussle...
There was a heave of relief following initial fears that the country’s apex court, the Supreme Court, may have sacked the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF board and...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria may record their first defeat of England in the June 2 friendly encounter on the sacred turf of Wembley according to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles’ striker, Julius Aghahowa, has restated that Mikel Obi and Victor Moses will be the pivot of Nigeria’s possible good...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Match tickets for the high profile England versus Nigeria friendly match are already on sale with the lowest ticket going for the...
Super Eagles’ Ahmed Musa has regained his scoring form as he powered his Russian club, CSKA Moscow, to a 2-1 defeat of Kuban Krasnodar on Sunday...
Nigeria’s sole survivor in continental clubs’ competition, Enyimba may have to avenge the ouster of MFM in the Confederation League Cup as they are drawn in...
As Nigeria’s sole continental survivor, Enyimba, await their Confederation Cup opponents, CAF on Friday announced the procedure for the draw of the group phase of the...
Following a tradition established by UEFA, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has decided to have specific match day calendars for its inter-clubs competition. In a...
BY TUNDE LIADI. Niger Tornadoes terrific start to the season with an away win against Kwara United was reversed by a string of five straight defeats...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Shooting Stars’ striker, Femi Opabunmi who entered record books as one of the youngest players to feature in the World Cup...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles striker, Finidi George, whose assist of a pass led to Rashidi Yekini scoring Nigeria’s first ever World Cup goal...
Two of Nigeria’s four teams in the CAF Confederation Cup, MFM of Lagos and Akwa United of Uyo on Sunday lost their respective fixtures in the...
The president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick has been honoured by his alma mater, the University of Benin. According to a media release...
Former Nigerian international footballers have hailed the philanthropic gestures of Paul Okoku who recently donated 20,000 text books to 40 schools in Delta State. The donation...
Two- time African Footballer of the Year, Nwankwo Kanu has been made ambassador of the Ultimate Football Fan TV reality show. The event is being powered...
The Nigeria Football Federation has, in line with the implementation of its National Integrity Initiative Guidelines, requested that each of the Football Associations of the 36...
Nigeria’s Women national team, Super Falcons, have settled down in the city Le Mans, West of France after arriving on Wednesday evening. Head Coach Thomas Dennerby,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Argentine sports publication, TyC Sports has reported that Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr has joked that he wished Argentina would beat Iceland...
Reports from Russia has it that the police has arrested one Ziyavudin Magomedov, a multi billionaire whose company is saddled with the construction of the stadium...
Former Nigerian international footballer, Paul Okoku who is based in the US has through his foundation in Nigeria donated 20,000 textbooks to 40 schools in Delta...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As reactions continue to flow in following Nigeria’s 0-2 loss in Tuesday’s pre-World Cup friendly match with Serbia in London, Super Eagles’...
SS Lazio, the Italian club that Nigeria’s midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi played for till last season has fallen victim to e-mail scammers. In the end, the club...
Ogenyi Onazi reflects on Nigeria’s return to the top Super Eagles midfield dynamo shares the roots of his versatility Looks towards Russia 2018 and Argentina reunion...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles’ skipper, Nwankwo Kanu, has partly attributed Tuesday’s 0-2 loss to Serbia by Nigeria to the absence of inspirational Mikel Obi....
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. It is not just the goalkeeping department that is giving Nigeria’s coach, Gernot Rohr, sleepless nights. He is also in the search...
Argentina coach, Jorge Sampaoli has claimed that the World Cup is like a ‘revolver to the head’ of Lionel Messi, stopping him from fully enjoying his...
Nigeria defender William Troost-Ekong, currently with Bursaspor in Turkey, has become the 43rd member of Common Goal – the movement powered by players and managers donating...
The First Vice President of Nigeria Football Federation and the Chairman Lagos State Football Association, Seyi Akinwunmi, has debunked the news flying around that he wants...
The good runs the Super Eagles are having in their preparations for the Russia 2018 World Cup is been taken note by Argentina, the perceived major...
Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, flew into the Egyptian port city, Alexandria on Saturday after a four-and-half hour flight from Kano, and immediately settled down to...
The Super Eagles who arrived London on Saturday have had their first training session on Sunday under the expected chilly weather. According to media release by...
The President, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Honour Sirawoo has condemned the alleged assault of a sports writer, Mbum Ferdinand by officials and agents of...
Argentina’s captain, Lionel Messi may not feature in Tuesday’s friendly match with Spain as Russia 2018-bound teams play another round of friendly matches to shape up...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As most qualified teams started their pre World Cup arm up matches on Friday, the Super Eagles posted a soul lifting 1-0...
Following the conclusion of the draw for the next round of matches in CAF’s inter-club competitions, Nigeria’s MFM have been sent back to Mali to face...
Egypt-based Nigerian sensation, Oluwafemi Ajayi, popularly called Junior Ajayi has had his international debut postponed as he will not feature in Friday’s friendly match with Poland....
The Super Eagles’ Radisson Blu Hotel camp in Wroclaw has become a beehive of activities following the arrival of 22 players and the beginning of training...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Russia 2018 may be the last for the legendry Lionel Messi as a player. The iconic footballer, whose Argentine team is drawn in...
As the countdown to the World Cup continues, Nigeria’s coach Gernot Rohr has been talking about the preparation of the Super Eagles as well as his...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former stars of Shooting Stars Sports Club have lamented the state of the once upon continental great side, as they gathered...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is 30 years since one of the most fanatical backers of football in Nigeria, Chief Lekan Salami died. He was a...
An international youth football tournament named LEG Lagos Challenge is in the offing. According to a sports management company organizing the event, Donbalon Sports Commerz, the...
Two of the three goals Nigeria conceded against Argentina in the 2-3 loss at the last World Cup in Brazil were from set-pieces. One of the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles defensive midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has showered praises on Leicester City team mate, Kelechi Iheanacho for his impressive performance in Saturday’s...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As the countdown begins for Nigeria’s clash later this month in what is the first of the six pre-World Cup friendly matches...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Following the draw for the France 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in which the Nigerian side, Falconets will face Germany, China...
FIFA World Cup winner with France 20 years ago, Christian Karembeu has tipped the Super Eagles of Nigeria to be one of the standout teams at...
Mountain of Fire & Miracles (MFM FC) have a mountain to climb in the return leg of their CAF Champions League duel with Algeria’s MC Alger...
Nigeria U20 Women National Team’s Head Coach, Chris Danjuma and Team Administrator Mary Oboduku will be at the Draw Ceremony for the 9th FIFA U20 Women’s World...
The composition of the Super Eagles’ squad to the 2018 World Cup is beginning to emerge as Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has listed 28 players that...
Nigeria’s fund raising dinner invitation cards and advertisement for the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup have been unveiled by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon...
For the fourth time ever, the authentic FIFA World Cup trophy will on Wednesday in Abuja be brought to Nigeria as part of its global tour....
Nigeria’s sports minister, Solomon Dalung has congratulated former Super Eagles Technical Adviser Chief Adegboye Onigbinde on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The Minister of Youth...
Super Eagles and Chelsea ace Victor Moses has spoken of his delight after he was presented with his AITEO-NFF Football Awards Player of the Year gong...
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has visited flying winger Ahmed Musa at his club, CSKA Moscow, telling him to keep working hard ahead of the...
Nigeria Football Federation’s second Vice President/LMC Chairman Shehu Dikko, has been inducted into the FIFA Football Stakeholders Committee, after his first attendance of the panel at the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The doyen of football coaches in Nigeria, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde clocks a milestone age of 80 this Monday. His birthday is a day...
Amid pomp and glitz, but with a full appreciation of the task at hand, leaders of the South West zone of Nigerian Football in Ibadan launched...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Winning three games on the spin is something Rivers United have not managed to do this season. The ‘Pride of Rivers’ will...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles attacker, Daniel Amokachi has predicted Chelsea’s Victor Moses to play a major role in the Super Eagles offensive formation...
The president of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF is set to add another feather to his cap as the University of Benin is set to honour him...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Volgograd Arena, a 45,568 capacity stadium which is scheduled to host the 2018 World Cup Group D fixture of Nigeria and Iceland on...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles and Tianjin TEDA of China skipper, John Obi Mikel has revealed he is battle ready for the forthcoming FIFA...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Barcelona star man, Lionel Messi could snub the next Spanish La Liga fixture against Las Palmas in order to stay fresh for...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick on Tuesday inaugurated the federation’s newly –composed Audit Committee and the Technical Study Group at the NFF...
BY JANE NWEZE. After six defeats from 10 games including one at home and a draw, Nasarawa United Coach, Kabiru Dogo is understandably growing apprehensive with...
BY PROMISE ETIM. At full time on Sunday at the UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar, former champions, Enyimba International had managed to score their first double...
Head Coach of Nigeria’s U20 national team, Paul Aigbogun has called to camp 28 players as the seven –time African champions begin preparations for the qualifying...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A former Chairman of the then Nigeria Football Association, Colonel Mike Okwechime has died in Benin City this Friday. A family source...
President of Sunshine Stars FC, Tajudeen Akinyemi has communicated in writing the club’s decision to accept the recent disciplinary measures imposed on the club by the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigerian football cheer leader, Rafiu Ladipo has joined the growing army of football followers in Nigeria who believed that the Legendary XI...
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino has poured encomiums on the Amaju Pinnick –led NFF, saying the Nigerian Federation has shown excellent vision and focus, and...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has assured world football –governing body, FIFA that the country is ready, able and willing to host any...
MFM FC who overcame gritty AS Real Bamako 1-0 on Wednesday to advance from the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League into the Round 1...
An array of prominent global figures, including FIFA President Gianni Infantino and CAF President Ahmad, political chieftains, football stars, renowned administrators past and present, captains of...
Top squash playing countries in the world, France, Egypt, and 13 others beat the deadline of registration for the 2018 Lagos International Squash Classics. The Lagos...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Rivers United will face Niger Tornadoes in Port Harcourt this Sunday as the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) enters match day 9....
Recommends suspension of Referee Akure, Apine and Owolana Orders 10 match ban on officials of Kwara United & Katsina United Lifts Ban...
The Nigerian delegation of U17 women national football team, Flamingos, will on Friday arrive in Yaoundé, Cameroon for their final round, return leg of the 2018...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo who will turn 29 years on the day Nigeria will face Croatia at Russia 2018 FIFA World...
The Edo State Government is planning to re-launch Bendel Insurance, one of the tripod of traditional club sides that set the Nigerian fields aglow in the...
The Nigeria Football Federation has unfolded its programme for its inaugural awards night which will hold on Monday at the Grand Ballroom of the Eko...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As projected two weeks ago by the Sports Village Square, all the teams that performed well at the African Nations Championship in...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the 2018 World Cup approaches the 100-day countdown, there is a big race against time in stadium construction. The stadiums in Kaliningrad...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles manager and skipper, Sunday Oliseh who was on Wednesday relieved of his duties as coach of the Dutch second...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Samson Siasia who tactically wrestled the captainship of the Super Eagles from Ahmed Musa and handed the skipper’s armband to Mikel...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Barely two weeks to the second anniversary of his resignation as the manager of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh who once captained...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles left sided midfielder, Garba Lawal who feeble shot was spilled into the net by Spain’s goalkeeper, Andoni Zubizarreta spilled...
Nigeria’s senior women national team, the Super Falcons, have landed in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan for the 2018 WAFU Cup of Nations tournament starting on Wednesday....
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday released the names of coaching crews of all its national teams, bar those of the Senior Men Team (Super Eagles),...
BY AYO IBIDAPO. Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick has charged participants at the 2nd edition of the NPFL-LaLiga Youth Coaches’ Clinic to remain focused...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When last week the Super Eagles’ 2018 World Cup kit was officially unveiled in London by the manufacturers, there were two easily noticeable...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Liverpool target, Wilfred Ndidi is the Nigerian player to watch when the Super Eagles take on Poland in Nigeria’s first pre-World Cup build...
BY WALE MUSTAPHA. An 11th minute strike from Seguin Alibis gave Niger Tornadoes a 1-0 scrappy win over Nasiriya United to end Icon Allah’s winless...
BY FISAYO DAIRO. Striker Okon Otop scored after just two minutes to give hosts Go-Round a hard-earned 1-0 win over Abia Warriors in Omoku on Sunday. The...
BY CLEMENT NWANKPA JR. It was one of the most anticipated Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) debuts in recent times and everybody at the arena...
The fire on the plateau is still raging as Nigeria’s champions, Plateau United had an emphatic 3-0 defeat of the visiting Eding Sports SC of Cameroon...
Akwa United got their CAF Confederation Cup campaign underway on the wrong foot after losing 1-2 at home to visiting Hawks FC of Gambia at the Godswill...
Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) chairperson, Aisha Falode has described as a new dawn in women football development the recent endorsed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
BY WOLE OTAYOMI, ABEOKUTA. The remains of Raymond Idoreyin King a former IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan and Abiola Babes of Abeokuta goalkeeper have been...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The brand equity of the Nigeria Football Federation continues its rise as the federation on Friday signed what looks like the biggest sponsorship...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Rivers United will attempt what no side has ever managed in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) this season on Sunday –...
As former African champions, Enyimba, one of Nigeria’s representatives in the same competition, draw bye into the next round alongside nine other eminent clubs on the...
By BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Essentuki Community in Russia should be set to receive the Super Eagles when the 2018 World Cup begins. This is sequel...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The performances of Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the previous World Cup finals has been highlighted by FIFA in its website. It is...
Nigeria champions, Plateau United, are hopeful of a good outing as they kick-start their continental cup campaign against Eding Sport of Cameroon in one of this...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. British tabloid, Daily Mail has reported positive reception of the Nigeria’s World Cup kit unveiled in London on Wednesday. The kit is...
The Super Eagles 2018 kits have been officially unveiled in London on Wednesday. The kits are in two kinds – the home and away shirts. A...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially released the cash entitlements of all teams that participated at the 5th African Nations Championship in Morocco, with second...
The sports family in Nigeria is again thrown into mourning following the death of Austin Mgbolu, one-time image maker of the Nigeria Football Federation when it...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It may not have met much in projecting Nigeria’s ranking even if the Super Eagles had won the African Nations Championship last...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. African Nations Championship’s runners-up, Super Eagles B team returned to Nigeria Tuesday morning proudly clutching their silver medals. Their performance in Morocco...
The new President of the CAF Board of Appeal, A. U. Mustapha (SAN) has assured that his board will employ integrity and justice to all as...
Nigerians have been urged to take the positives away from the CHAN Super Eagles’ second best performance in Casablanca Morocco. Despite losing 0-4 to hosts-Morocco in the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. From frustration of failure to qualify for the first two editions and getting to the semi-finals in the third edition, the Super...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. It is not often that a football power falls disastrously. But it sometimes happen just as hosts of 2014 World Cup crumbled...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. In defeating the second string Super Eagles 4-0 on Sunday, Morocco did not just lift the African Nations Championship trophy for the first...
AIPS AFRICA President, Mitchell Obi has advised all member national sports journalists association and sports federations to distance and disassociate themselves from an unregistered group that...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles goalkeeper for Sunday’s final match of the African Nations Championship, Dele Ajiboye is taking inspiration from the success achieved by some...
Nigeria’s U17 girls have a mountain to climb in Yaounde in a fortnight after they could only force their Cameroonian counterparts to a 2-2 draw in...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles’ hit-man and now the head scout of Gernot Rohr, Victor Agali has tipped the Super Eagles to beat Morocco...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Milestone clash for Nigeria and Morocco Past encounters almost evenly shared Win by Nigeria will even scores with Morocco at 8 wins...
The firm exhortation by Nigeria FA boss Amaju Pinnick to win the African Nations Championship trophy for President Muhammadu Buhari will be ringing in the ears...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung will be in Casablanca on Sunday to cheer the Super Eagles to victory when they meet the hosts...
The positive ripple effects of NFF President Amaju Melvin Pinnick’s election into the CAF Executive Committee 10 months ago continued on Friday with further key appointments...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has congratulated the Super Eagles for clinching a ticket to the final of the 2018 African Nations Championship...
Falconets’ ace forward Rasheedat Ajibade and veteran midfielder Osas Igbinovia are at the top of a 35 –woman list of players invited to the camp of...
Substitute goalkeeper, Dele Ajiboye was the saving grace for the second string Super Eagles as he stood between relentless Sudanese attackers to defend Nigeria’s solitary goal...
A battle of epic proportion may be in the offing as the Super Eagles face Sudan on Wednesday night in the semi-finals of the 2018 African...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the second string Super Eagles line out on Wednesday to face Sudan, the players will be aiming to get their names...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday unveiled Thomas Dennerby of Sweden as the new head coach of the Nigerian national women Super Falcons. Dennerby is...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles technical adviser, Gernot Rohr believes Barcelona duo of Ivan Rakitic and Lionel Messi will certainly give his team a run...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. What a twist of fate! The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun who was one of the dignitaries that graced the funeral...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his counterpart in Ogun, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and wife of Nigeria’s Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo on Tuesday led thousands of...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Argentina national team coach, Jorge Sampaoli has concluded his European trip where he met with 28 players spread across six countries. Information...
Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung has congratulated the Super Eagles for qualifying for the semi-finals of the African Nations Championship, CHAN. The Super...
Chairman of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmed, better known as “Fresh” has praised the resoluteness of the Super Eagles following their 2-1...
The growth in brand equity of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) becomes apparent again as another big player in the Nigerian economy is about to team...
Apart from the primary objective of winning the African Nations Championship for the first time for Nigeria, the skipper and keeper of the side, Ikechukwu Ezenwa...
It was almost a replay of the Nigeria encounter with Italy in the Round of 16 duel of USA ’94 as the Nigerian Super Eagles were...
Srdan Vasiljevic the Head Coach of Angola could not hide his frustration as the Super Eagles came from behind to edge out his team in Sunday’s...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Rivers United and Enyimba played out an exciting 1-1 draw on Sunday as the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) entered match day...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA Lagos State Premiership side in the Nigerian Professional Football League, MFM got involved in an auto crash on Sunday in their...
Salisu Yusuf’s boys, the Nigerian home-based national football team have qualified for the semi-finals of the ongoing African Nations Championship after a 2-1defeat of gusty...
As the Super Eagles face Angola on Sunday in the knockout stage of the African Nations Championship, Srdjan Vasiljevic, the Head Coach of Angola, like his...
From jostling, the African Nations Championships has now moved to the pushing stage. Which teams will fall on Sunday to join Namibia which became the first...
Like the Super Eagles, the Nigeria’s Falconets will also be competition at the World Cup finals this year as the team on Saturday defeated South Africa’s...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Rivers United will be gunning for a third consecutive home win in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) this...
The remains of the deceased former Chairman of Lagos State Sports Council, Deji Tinubu, will be laid to rest on Tuesday in Lagos. Sports Village Square...
The Lagos State Government has explained that frantic efforts were made by medical doctors to save Deji Tinubu, the special adviser to the state governor on...
As the second string Super Eagles side prepare for Sunday’s quarter final clash with Angola in the African Nations Championship, Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Argentina midfielder, Emiliano Rigoni whose team is billed to face Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria in Group C of the FIFA World Cup...
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung has expressed deep shock following the sudden demise of the first Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Commission,...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is one of the early mourners of the deceased former Special Adviser on Sports to the Lagos State Governor, Deji Tinubu,...
South Africa’s delegation to Saturday’s 2018 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup qualifying clash with Nigeria’s Falconets has landed in Benin City ahead of the encounter. The...
The Nigeria Football Federation has signed an agreement with top Swedish football coach, Thomas Dennerby, to take the role of Head Coach of eight –time African...
Nigeria’s Emmanuel Amuneke who once played for FC Barcelona has been listed by the club as one of its greats. The club listed the Nigerian scorer...
The upgrading of the Agege Stadium, the home ground of the Nigeria Professional Football league side, MFM FC will be ready before the club’s first home...
Representatives of the Super Eagles and those of the other b31 Russia 2018 finalists will next month attend a workshop that FIFA and the Local Organising Committee...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ defensive midfielder at the ongoing African Nations Championship, Emeka Atuluma has remarked that the team is determined more than ever before...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has thanked the President of the Confederation of African Football CAF, Ahmad for his support to the five...
The Nigerian sports minister, Solomon Dalung provided the big impetus that steered the Super Eagles to a 1-0 victory over Libya on Friday at the ongoing African...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced WAPIC Insurance as its insurance services provider. According to a media release, NFF on Friday in Lagos signed an...
Nigeria’s head coach, Salisu Yusuf has admitted that the lone goal victory over 2014 champions, Libya, was a very difficult one. Nigeria had to wait till...
Rwanda’s 1-0 defeat of pointless Equatorial Guinea has made the last match day of the African Nations Championship Group C very competitive. The Super Eagles who...
Nigeria’s head coach, Salisu Yusuf has vowed that his team would beat Libya on Friday to remain in contention for the African Nations Championship. “We drew...
Anthony Okopotu, the lead scorer in the Nigerian domestic league last season will be a marked man when Nigeria takes on Libya in the African Nations...
Nigeria faces Libya on Friday in a match that is very crucial for both sides in the ongoing African Nations Championship. Nigeria needs a win to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Chile will be the last friendly match Nigeria will play ahead of the World Cup holding in Russia. The friendly duel with...
The organisers of the March 23 friendly match between Poland and Nigeria have changed the match venue from the capital city of Warsaw to Wroclaw, thenff.com...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Team handler of the Nigeria Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has ranked team captain, John Obi Mikel as the most experienced African player who...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s contribution to World Cup fashion will be on parade next month in London when leading kit manufacturers, Nike formally unveils the Super...
To several applauses and commendation for good planning and focus, the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday in Lagos made public its 2018 FIFA World Cup program...
World football –governing body, FIFA, has handed the Nigeria Football Federation clean bill of health on its finances, following diligent application of best practices in its...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday signed a two –year contract extension with Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr. NFF President Pinnick (right) shakes hands with...
The Nigeria Football Federation and Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited on Wednesday in Lagos consummated a partnership agreement that made the beverage behemoth ‘Official Soft Drink and...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, may before the week runs out regain one of its previous lead sponsors, Coca-Cola. It was gathered...
Winning goal expert, Emmanuel Amuneke, who was also a former coach of World Cup winning Golden Eaglets, has thrown his support for the home based Super...
BY MFON PATRICK. Following their emphatic victory over Rangers in Uyo at the weekend, Akwa United will travel to Omoku, Rivers State aiming to pick their...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. ‘Club less Sunday Faleye, one of the strikers in the Monday Nigeria’s barren draw with Rwanda in the on-going African Nations Championship...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Could it be because the Nigerian team failed to live up to expectation in their Monday’s encounter with Rwanda that CAF website...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s manager at the ongoing African Nations Cup in Morocco said he and his players had nothing to regret over the goalless draw...
SAMMY WEJINYA. Plateau United and Rivers United will re-enact what’s turning out to be one of the Nigeria Professional Football League’s (NPFL) most compelling...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have a mountain to climb on Thursday when they face Group C leaders, Libya in the CHAN 2018 in Morocco. While Libya almost...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles have finally chosen a base camp at the Russia 2018 World Cup. The team will be based at Yessentuki in...
Ardent desire to gain places in Nigeria’s 23 –man squad for the FIFA World Cup finals in Russia will be the key incentive for Nigeria’s home –based...
Seven months after Bafana Bafana bruised Super Eagles’ ego with a 0-2 defeat of the Nigerian side in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The Argentine goalkeeper on the day the Super Eagles pummelled the two time World Cup holders by 4-2 last November, Agustín...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Friday inaugurated its newly –composed Referees Appointment Committee, even as the committee held its inaugural meeting at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Back to back African Woman Footballer of the Year, Asisat Oshoala has been named the Lagos State Sports Ambassador. She was hosted...
The Nigeria Football Federation has pledged to lend institutional support and advice to the ‘Nigeria House’ project at the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. The wait is finally over and action returns to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL)...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles’ forward, Victor Ikpeba has told www.sportsvillagesquare.com of plans by some past national team players to organize a charity match...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Nigerian football stars are dismayed following reports of relapse of emotional disorder suffered by former Golden Eaglets’ captain, Wilson Oruma. Completesportsnigeria.com...
The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that a prestige friendly match between the Super Eagles and England’s Three Lions will take place at the Wembley...
With the 2018 season in Nigeria kicking off this weekend, continental hopefuls, Akwa United have sought divine guidance as set eyes on continental title as well...
Ahead of the African Nations Championship starting this Saturday, the Nigerian side will Wednesday evening face Cameroon at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium, Rabat in a...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Professional football league side, Kwara United early Wednesday had a motor accident on their return journey home after featuring in the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles and Arsenal forward, Alex Iwobi has partied himself into trouble following reports in the UK tabloid, The Sun that...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Nigeria’s team handler, Gernot Rohr has hinted that members of the African Nations Championship...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Back-to-back Woman African Footballer of the Year winner, Asisat Oshoala has revealed that some top Super Eagles stars are part of her...
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung has advised Nigerian youths to emulate the 2017 Aiteo CAF Woman Footballer of the year, Asisat Oshola. While congratulating the...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reinstated the controversial Sunday Faleye as Shooting Stars’ player in its list of trophy-hunting African Nations Cup Championship squad which...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr has admitted that the June 26 match with Argentina at Krestovsky Stadium, St Petersburg will be a difficult...
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has perfected arrangements to organize its annual seminar for match commissioners of the various Leagues. The seminar begins on Tuesday and...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Olé, a publication in Argentina has highlighted Felix Orode, a Nigerian player featuring in the domestic league. It began with a question lead:...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Alfio Basile, the last coach to train the legendary Diego Maradona to his very last match when Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1 at...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. On the day 17-year old Nigerian, Xavier Amaechi turned 17, he was this Friday handed a professional contract by English Premiership side,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s wingback, Victor Moses lost out in the race for the African Footballer of the Year as well as being named in...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Three Nigerians were in the shortlist for the different playing departments for the choice of players for the 3-4-3 formations that the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Apart from Asisat Oshoala who was named the African Woman Footballer of the Year and the Al Ahly Nigerian playmaker, Oluwafemi Ajayi...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. CAF President, Ahmad has exonerated the continental body over the sudden change in the title sponsorship of the annual CAF Awards. Speaking...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the final shortlist for the CAF Awards was released last month, two categories were not listed. These are the “Player of...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Argentina’s coach, Jorge Sampaoli has begun a tour of the various European leagues to monitor prospective players who will make his final squad...
BY MFON PATRICK. CAF Confederation Cup contenders and Aiteo Cup Champions, Akwa United will officially unveil its newly signed players for the 2018 Football League season...
The Management of the Shooting Stars Sports Club, 3SC, has commiserated with the family of the late Raymond King on the death of the former goalkeeper....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s sports minister, Solomon Dalung on Wednesday in Lagos took a retrospective look at sports in Nigeria in the past two years...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Past winners of the African Football of the Year Awards are expected in Accra Ghana at the 26th edition of the awards which...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Head coach of the Super Eagles B, Salisu Yusuf has released his 23 man list for the African Nations Championship that will...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Leicester City and Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has cried out that his Facebook account had been compromised. He has therefore warned...
With barely 12 days to the kick-off of the African Nations Championship (CHAN), skipper and goalkeeper of the Nigerian side, Ikechukwu Ezenwa is optimistic of Nigeria...
The Ogun State Football Association is in a state of grief and shock over the death of Nigeria ex-international, Raymond King. According to a media release...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles attacking midfielder, Etebo Oghenekaro is revving for action as the countdown to Russia 2018 begins. The global festival of football...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Russia 2018-bound Super Eagles are wishing Nigerians a happy New Year. Some of the players made use of social media platforms to...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has expressed the satisfaction of the Federation with on-field and off-field results for Nigerian football in the...
The Minister of Youth and Sports in Nigeria, Solomon Dalung has called on football stakeholders to remain calm as efforts were being made to correct an...
There is a high level of excitement and infectious ecstasy as the fourth edition of the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini-Tournament comes to a climax at...
There was much glamour and panache as Argungu United FC of Argungu edged New Stars FC of Kebbi 3-2 in the grand finale of the annual...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Argentina based Nigerian footballer, Felix Orode has told www.sportsvillagesquare of his dream to play for the Super Eagles as the team prepares...
Youth football talent-hunting specialist, Seyi Akinwunmi is holding the fourth edition of his charity foundation this Friday at the Lagos Campus Mini Stadium. The Seyi Akinwunmi...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As the clock ticks to the weekend of 16-18 February 2018 when MFM will host AS Real Bamako of Mali in the CAF...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The World Cup is the biggest stage for footballers to exhibit their skills and also a big platform to foster new and...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. It has been a little over two years since Victor Osimhen came from the blues to storm into global limelight with his...
While most Nigerian citizens are in festive mood soaking the enjoyment of Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Ministry of Youth and Sports has revealed that...
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. We also specially wish Emmanuel Amuneke a happy birthday. This also extends to all...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The connection of Nigeria and Argentina football-wise recently took a new turn as David Olaoye became the first English footballer in the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. World Cup-bound Super Eagles of Nigeria have acquired smart bibs which the players are now using during training sessions. Sports Village Square...
World football governing body and owners of the World Cup competition has warned the global audience to watch out for the mystery team called Iceland when...
The North West zone of the Nigerian Football landscape has passed a vote of confidence on the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick and...
The bar for fairplay in Nigerian football has been raised as former anti graft Czar, Nuhu Ribadu and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Mathew-Kukah have...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Nigeria Football Federation will in March 2018 relocate to its permanent facilities at the Package B of the National Stadium, Abuja....
BY SUNDAY AGUNBIADE. CHAN Eagles wonder kid and Akwa United winger, Sunday Faleye has showered encomium on the head Coach of the Super Eagles, Coach...
NFF 1st Vice President and Chairman of the NFF Youth Football Committee, Seyi Akinwunmi was full of elan and elocution on Tuesday, after another successful and highly...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has revealed that four pre world Cup friendly matches have been confirmed for the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A major restructuring is in the offing at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Sports Village Square has gathered from the chieftain of the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ technical adviser, Gernot Rohr and his chief scout, Victor Agali may be pulling the rope from different ends over the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria and Chelsea star player, Victor Moses has lost out in the race for the 2017 Africa Footballer of the Year. Confederation...
As the clock ticks down to January 13th kick off date of the 2018 African Nations Championship which is Nigeria’s first competitive engagement in the New...
A week of exciting youth football in the ancient city of Kano will witness the grand finale in Lagos on Tuesday with the U15 final of...
Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingoes scraped through to the final round of the African qualification series for the 6th FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup on Saturday, but only...
World Cup debutants and the smallest country ever to get into the global football fiesta, Iceland is thrilled at having to face Argentina, one of...
The General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi has categorically denied telling any media organization that he was aware of defender Abdullahi Shehu’s ineligibility...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s first Group opponents at the Russia 2018 World Cup, Croatia has picked Forest Rhapsody Resort in the village Ilicevo in Zelenogorsk,...
Head Coach Bala Nikyu says his Nigeria U17 girls, Flamingoes are prepared to take the match to their Ethiopian opponents and guarantee a place in the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s Gbenga Okunowo who featured along with current Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola and Brazil’s Rivaldo for FC Barcelona in the 1998/99...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Argentina’s captain, Lionel Messi has analysed each of his team’s Russia 2018 opponents in a sentence, giving the Super Eagles, the...
The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Nigeria, Nikolay Udovichenko dreams of Russia –Nigeria clash in the final match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup at...
Following the forfeiture of Nigeria’s last match with Algeria, the Media Department of the NFF has reported that the federation was sad about the decision and...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Improper record-keeping has again taken its toll on Nigerian football as FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee imposed sanction on Super Eagles. Consequently, the Super...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Egypt’s Mohamed Salah has one of the two prestigious awards for the African footballer, the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2007....
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The fear of Lionel Messi could be the beginning of wisdom, if comments of Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr are anything to by....
BY SUNDAY AGUNBIADE. Former continental great side, Shooting Stars, which went down into the lower rung of the Nigerian League at the close of 2017 season...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Effectively, the Super Eagles’ World Cup build-up begins on March 23, the first of the four FIFA International match days of 2018....
The fireworks continue at the annual COPA Lagos International Beach Soccer Tournament on Saturday with Nigeria’s Supersand Eagles ready to trample all over their counterparts from...
The home –based Super Eagles contingent arrived the ancient city of Kano on Saturday afternoon as Head Coach Salisu Yusuf and his crew countenance the beginning...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s double award seeking star, Victor Moses has been ranked among the top 10 skilled right wing back in the world by...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Argentina’s captain, Lionel Messi, has joined the President of Argentina Football Association, Claudio Tapai in drumming support for the recall of Juventus’...
BY TUNDE AKINBINU. It is no longer news that Plateau United are the Nigerian Professional Football League Champions. They topped the log very early in the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Fans of the MFM Football Club have hailed Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on the rehabilitation of Agege Stadium as home ground...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The Super Eagles will play a pre-World Cup friendly match with England, the UK-based Skysport has reported, quoting the general secretary of the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Manchester City and Argentina’s striker, Sergio Aguero has dismissed the Super Eagles as the least headache Argentina will face in Group D...
BY SAMMY WEJINYA. Leading specialty fluids management company, Eunisell have continued their official shirt sponsorship deal with Rivers United. As part of the deal, players...
BY FOLAKE OKEGBENLE. Super Eagles participation at Russia 2018 World Cup will be an expensive venture, a State House source informed Sports Village Square on...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. In political arena, there is a saying that there are no permanent friends or enemies, but permanent interest. So also it seems...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles’ technical adviser, Gernot Rohr is yet to return from Russia after last Friday’s Final Draw of the World Cup...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles and Leicester City defensive midfielder, Winfred Ndidi has been named among 100 most valuable under 21 players in the world....
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Hernan Crespo who featured for Argentina in three encounters with Nigeria in Atlanta 96 Olympic Games football final, the 1995 Inter Continental...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ prolific player, Victor Moses is optimistic that the Super Eagles will prevail despite the huge challenge the team will face...
Nigeria Football Federation chieftain, Amaju Pinnick is very positive that the Nigerian Super Eagles will soar at the World Cup next year. Already the draw which...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Nigeria’s goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, who picked the ball from the net in what turned to be the 1,500th goal in World...
Foremost sports marketer, Taye Ige, believes the time is ripe for the Nigerian football team, Super Eagles to soar high into global reckoning. No better platform...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Elder Statesman in Nigerian football, Adegboye Onigbinde has made a sensational prediction that the Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr will win the...
Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingos on Sunday had to battle both their Ethiopian counterparts and an unfriendly weather in Addis Ababa, but still came off the pitch...
With no clear ‘Group of Death’ in the FIFA World Cup 2018, even though the Group B that pitches Portugal and Spain together looks like one,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA Reactions continued to flow in concerning the FIFA World Cup final draw concluded in Moscow on Friday. Argentina’s coach, Jorge Sampaoli whose...
Heimir Hallgrimsson, the coach of World Cup debutant, Iceland has remarked that he knew little about the Super Eagles which his team will face in Volgograd...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. With the Final Draw of the World Cup concluded, Nigeria’s manager is already looking ahead with prospects of crossing the first hurdle...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr has remarked that the Group D in which the Super Eagles will be contesting next year in the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Carles Puyol of Spain picked the ball from Pot 4 and it was Nigeria, pitching the country with the usual World Cup...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Two past Super Eagles skippers, Austin Jay Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu may be among the galaxy of stars gracing Friday’s Final...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, seven consecutive World Cup reporter. Like in pots 1 and 2, Nigeria will draw a team from Pot 3 which has Denmark, Iceland,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, seven consecutive World Cup reporter. One of Nigeria’s three opponents at the group stage of the World Cup will come from Pot 2 which...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, seven consecutive World Cup reporter. The teams in Pot 1 are expected to present the most challenging encounter to other teams they faced....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, seven consecutive World Cup reporter. This Friday the 32 teams for the 2018 World Cup will know their group stage opponents and would...
Friday’s Final Draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia is set to topple whatever has been done previously in the final draws for the...
As the clock ticks down to 6pm (Moscow time) and 4pm in Nigeria for the World Cup 2018 Final Draw at the State Kremlin Palace on...
Ahead of the Final Draw of the World Cup 2018 holding this Friday in Moscow, Nigeria’s manager, Gernot Rohr has landed in Moscow for the seminar...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Ahead of the Final Draw holding on Friday, former France national team captain, Marcel Desailly believes the Nigerian Super Eagles will excel...
On a day the Super Eagles will find out their group opponents at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Nigeria’s most capped World Cup journalist, Kunle Solaja,...
With Nigeria’s Russia 2018 World Cup opponents emerging this Friday night, the Association of Sports Veterans of Nigeria has planned a meeting for Tuesday December 5...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA, seven consecutive World Cup reporter. Invariably, every team not in Pot 2 to Pot 4 will have to face a seeded team in...
The Nigeria Football Federation will be fully integrated into the FIFA Connect system by the end of this year, the country’s football –governing body has announced. FIFA Connect is...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has explained that the resolve of the Federation’s leadership to ensure there are no distractions of any...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles attacker and scout to coach Gernot Rohr, Victor Agali has hinted 33 year-old Obafemi Martins is still relevant to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles and Chelsea defender, Ola Aina is currently mourning the demised of his former coach while at the Chelsea Academy....
On Friday, the Final Draw for 21st FIFA World Cup will be held in Moscow. Sports Village Square brings to you some salient points on the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. As the race for the picking of the African Player of the Year and Player of the Year (Based in Africa) gathers...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Super Eagles of Nigeria defender, Michael Emenano, who resigned from his post in Chelsea last month, has been appointed as the new...
BY FOLAKE OKEGBENLE. The number of Nigerians jostling to be honoured at the CAF/Aiteo Award in Accra on January 4 next year has increased by...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday in Lagos launched a short code – *1945# – which will be used for all campaigns that are geared...
…another clash with Argentina looms BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is four days to the final draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the entire world...
Nigerian-born Kevin Akpoguma who captained Germany to beat Nigeria at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup and who has also turned down a request to switch...
BY MOHAMMAD AUWAL SULEMAN. Amkar Perm, the Russian club of the Super Eagles’ latest call up, Brian Idowu is not pleased with the player’s featuring for...
The management of the Shooting Stars Football Club, (3SC) has declared one of its players, Sunday Faleye, missing after his failure to show up in training...
The remains of former Rangers and Super Eagles midfielder, Christian Madu, will be buried this Friday, at his home town Ndiama Oka –Ugiri in Isiala Mbano...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As reported last week by Sports Village Square, the November 2017 ranking released this Thursday by FIFA has thrown up unpleasant surprise,...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ hit man, Odion Ighalo is opening an orphanage in Ajah area of Lagos to help the less privileged citizens. The...
BY TOBI ADEPOJU. Former Sunshine Stars forward, Dele Olorundare has declared he would soon be back on the pitch and scoring goals after finally finding...
It is nine days to the Final Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The highlight of draw ceremony of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Scorer of the milestone 100th World Cup qualifying goal for Nigeria, Victor Agali is delighted about the new role as Chief Scout for...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles striker, Obafemi Martin’s was the hero of the first leg of the China FA Cup final as his lone...
Three goals scored from counter –attacking positions steered the Nigeria U20 girls, Falconets, to a 5-1 trouncing of their visiting Moroccan counterparts at the Samuel Ogbemudia...
On Friday December 1, the 32 teams for the 2018 World Cup will know their group stage opponents and would then begin to plan strategies of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The mind game has begun as the world counts down to December 1 when the World Cup final draw is conducted at...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The Argentine coach of Saudi Arabia, Edgardo Bauza, has described the Nigerian defeat of Argentina as a wake-up call and a lesson...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Tangier, the Moroccan port on the Strait of Gibraltar, where Nigeria picked the ticket for the football event of the 1976 Montreal Olympics,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The 32 coaches whose teams made it among the 209 that went through the qualifying series must have heaved sigh of relief...
BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s fifth play to chalk up 80 matches, Mikel Obi, is feeling at home in Russia where the Super Eagles will begin their...
The 32 teams for the Russia 2018 World Cup have not only emerged, they have been allocated to four pots awaiting the final draw coming up...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The possibility of Nigeria facing Argentina again in the World Cup looms large on Thursday as FIFA allocated qualified teams into four...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. A big surprise is in the offing when FIFA releases this month’s ranking next week Thursday. Playing against and heavily defeating the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Nigeria’s home based Super Eagles are in Pot 2 of the four-pot draw for the final of the competition holding in Morocco...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The legendary Diego Maradona who last played a football match against Nigeria 23 years ago is annoyed the way the Super Eagles have...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Juventus striker and Argentina’s forward, Paulo Dybala, has explained why his team lost a two goal advantage and crumbled under the four...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The talking point on many global sporting outlets remains the unexpected and spirited come-back efforts of the Nigerian Super Eagles over...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Even before his splendid debut for Nigeria, new comer, Bryan Idowu appeared to have been given ’wild card’ entry into the World...
The 4-2 defeat of Argentina by Nigeria almost took a tragic twist as Manchester City and Argentina striker Sergio Aguero collapsed and passed out at halftime....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Bryan Idowu who scored the goal that shot Nigeria ahead in the Tuesday’s match with Argentina has become the 59th Nigerian international...
The usual bonus row that has characterised Nigeria’s participation at the World Cup may not occur at Russia 2018 if the moves of the Nigeria Football...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s Super Eagles; manager is the man of the moment after his largely experimental side defeated a power packed Argentina in Russia...
There was concern for Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero when he collapsed during Argentina’s defeat by Nigeria in Russia on Tuesday. According to British tabloid,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The boogie always presented by Argentina was Tuesday terminated as the Super Eagles of Nigeria were truly super, coming back from...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Weather forecast shows that the Nigeria versus Argentina friendly in Krasnodar, Russia will be played in a partly cloudy condition. Sports Village Square’s...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Argentina’s coach, Jorge Sampaoli has built his offensive strategies around Juventus striker, Paulo Dybala in the Tuesday’s clash with the Super Eagles of...
BY BOLAJI OKUOLA. Spanish and Chelsea’s central midfielder has joined Nigeria’s Leon Balogun in drumming support for Victor Moses, one of the five nominees...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles’ skipper, Mikel Obi may this Tuesday get the opportunity of playing his 80th international game when Nigeria face Argentina for the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Of the football’s super powers, the eight countries that have won the World Cup, Argentina is the team Nigeria has met most...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Like Osaze Odemwingie who has Russian blood in his veins, Bryan Oladapo Idowu in similar manner has pitched tent with Nigeria as he on...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr having achieved his primary objective of qualifying Nigeria for the Russia 2018 World Cub is heaving as sigh of...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The 34,291 capacity Krasnodar Stadium may not be filled to capacity when the Super Eagles take on their familiar World Cup opponents,...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles standby invitee, Brian Idowu, was delighted to have received the Super Eagles squad that arrived Krasnodar aboard a chartered...
BY BOLAJI OKUOLA. Algeria may have escaped another home defeat by Nigeria, but the world probably knows their escape was referee-assisted. In their last World...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. It is no news that South Africa has missed the qualification for the Russia 2018 World Cup. But the coach, Stuart Baxter...
Leon Balogun who captained Nigeria for the first time since his debut with Super Eagles on March 6, 2014 in a friendly match with Mexico in...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles of Nigeria’s encounter this Friday with Algeria may just hold greater importance than a mere formality fixture it paints. With...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The Nigeria Super Eagles which leaves Rabat, Morocco for Constantine this Thursday for their scheduled World Cup qualifying match with Algeria will...
Twenty two teams are already through to the World Cup Russia 2018, leaving 16 other teams struggling for the remaining nine spots to complete a field...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ point man, Odion Ighalo who will be absent from Friday’s World Cup qualifying match with Algeria and also that of...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel who is expected to be capped 80th time for Nigeria on Friday finally arrive the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles’ skipper, Mikel Obi is on the threshold of getting into the prestigious FIFA Century Club, an exclusive assembly of players who...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA With 20 players in their Rabat camp, the Nigeria Super Eagles had their first training session on Tuesday ahead of their last...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ captain, John Obi Mikel will join the rest of the team on Tuesday as the build up to Friday World...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Man of the moment, Nigeria’s Michael Emenalo whose Monday resignation had been the most trending sports news on twitter, could have also...
The resignation of Michael Emenalo from Chelsea has created shock waves. According to most British news outlets, the Nigerian has shocked Chelsea by deciding to step...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The day after Chelsea beat their bitter rivals in a keenly contested English Premiership League in which Chelsea’s manager allegedly snubbed his predecessor...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As the Nigeria Super Eagles begin what is aptly a dress rehearsal for the Russia 2018 World Cup, their temporary nest...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. More injury woes have beset the Argentina- Nigeria friendly match expected to hold next week in Russia. Before now, some players from...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The two November fixtures of the Super Eagles are more or less part of the team’s dress rehearsals for the Russia 2018 World...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Argentina’s coach, Jorge Sampaoli has replaced Gabriel Mercado with FC Zenit Saint Petersburg central defender, Emanuel Mammana for the friendly match with Nigeria...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Former anti-graft czar, Nuhu Ribadu is to carry on the cleansing of the society in another sector of Nigeria’s national life. The...
Supranational football governing body, FIFA had given a conditional approval to the Argentina-Nigeria friendly match scheduled to hold later this month in Krasnodar, Russia. According to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Apart from the iconic Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Heguain as well as the injured Super Eagles’ striker, Odion Ighalo, the November 14...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Central attacker, Odion Ighalo is ruled out of the two forthcoming matches of the Super Eagles. Ighalo, who plays for Chinese Super...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles players are reportedly rueing the absence of the iconic Lionel Messi in the Argentine side that is due to face...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Three former Super Eagles’ stars; two of them African Footballers of the Year award winners are optimistic that Victor Moses will win...
The Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Nigeria, His Excellency Assem Hanafy Elseify on Wednesday described football as the biggest bridge –builder known to...
The NFF Executive Committee has directed the NFF Secretariat headed by Dr. Mohammed Sanusi to quickly tidy up all arrangements regarding next week’s 2018 FIFA World...
BY CHINWE EDOGA. As it was in the days leading to the World Cup editions of France ’98, Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010, the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. African football governing body, CAF has listed three Nigerian players among the 60 shortlisted for two topmost categories of the awards for the...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Super Eagles’ players are to assemble in Morocco on Monday ahead of Friday’s World Cup qualifying duel with Algeria. The choice of Morocco,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As Super Eagles’ handler, Gernot Rohr continues his search for solution into the goalkeeping riddle in his World Cup-bound team, he has...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles and Girona of Spain striker, Kayode Olarenwaju and other members of his team were hailed for defeating Spanish giants, Real...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The newly appointed coach of Shooting Stars, Edith Agoye will have his first official interaction with his players as they report to...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles’ manager, Gernot Rohr is still having headaches over the last line of his World Cup-bound squad. The goalkeeping department is...
A breakdown of the $400 million World Cup prize money shows that the 2018 World Cup champion will get $38 million. The world football governing body...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Super Eagles and the other 31 teams that will feature at Russia 2018 World Cup have a pot of US$400 million in prize...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The proposed November 14 World Cup dress rehearsal of Nigeria and Argentina in Russia has come under a serious threat from the...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Injured Super Eagles and Chelsea star player, Victor Moses is rueing his almost certain absence in the next two assignments of the...
After initial grand standing and refusal to take definitive action on Nigerian-born Eniola Aluko’s claim of racial remarks made by the immediate past England national women...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Former Shooting Stars’ attacking midfielder and later an assistant coach has been named the club’s new head coach in succession to Fatai...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. England may be on the road to winning another World Cup five months after Nigerian players aided it win the U-20 title,...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Iconic Cristiano Ronaldo who was recently named the Best Footballer in an elaborate FIFA Awards Night in London on Monday will like...
While Nigeria missed out in the qualification of two consecutive Africa Cup of Nations in 2015 and 2017, Gernot Rohr restored the country’s pride by leading...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. The public hearing on the bill formally establishing the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) comes up on Wednesday at the National Assembly complex...
BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Technical adviser of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has lofty dreams. He has promised to take the Super Eagles to a height never attained...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. The coast may not be clear yet for former Nigeria’s goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama to return to the Super Eagles’ fold. A highly...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel may have been disappointed over the outcome of the Monday FIFA’s The Best Awards. A...
Relegated Shooting Stars have relieved their Technical Adviser, Fatai Amoo, of his post. This was announced on Monday by the club’s media officer, Jubril Arowolo who...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. From the tragic loss of Nigeria’s highest goal scorer in international matches, Rashidi Yekini, comes a novel idea. His palatial house in Ring...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Nigeria’s strongman of defence, Leon Balogun has declared his fitness after suffering from cheekbone injury in a Bundesliga match involving his club,...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Near-consistent World Cup combatants, Nigeria and Argentina will next month clash in a friendly duel in Russia ahead of the World Cup Draw...
Even though the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president, Andrew Kamanga public denied speculations that his association was planning a complaint to FIFA over the outcome...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Gbolahan Salami who last featured for the mainstream Super Eagles two years ago in what also turned to be the Late Stephen...
BY BOLAJI OKUNOLA. Football took a front seat in diplomatic circle on Thursday as Super Eagles’ duo of William Troost-Ekong and Mikel Agu had a rare...
America’s Randy Jordan Waldrum has been handed the role of technical adviser of the Nigerian women team, the Super Falcons. The United States is one of...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. Tales of pay dispute between the Super Eagles and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may be a tale of the past as...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. An adjustment is in the offing in the administrative calendar of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). This follows an adoption of a motion...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF continues to get accolades as his profile continues to rise. From being the head of sports’...
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has projected to spend N6.3 billion in 2018. This is one of the high points in an eight point communiqué released...
The draw ceremony for the fifth edition of the African Nations Championship, Morocco 2018, will take place on Friday, 17th November 2017 in Rabat, Morocco. The...
The 2017 Annual General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation will take place at the Crest Hotel, Jos, capital of Plateau State on Thursday. NFF General...
President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has assured that the football –governing body is fully committed to bringing innovations and improved packages to the...
Argentinean third-tier side, Sacachispas, showed their love for national hero, Lionel Messi, by wearing masks of the player’s face before their Primera B Metropolitana clash against Comunicaciones. According to...
BY BEN ALAIYA. The Curtain may have fallen in the Nigeria Women Professional League Super 4, but top officials of government and organizers have been...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. As permutated by the Sports Village Square last Saturday, Nigeria is this Monday ranked 41st by the football governing body, FIFA in...
BY CHINWE EDOGA. The crowded international sports calendar and the attendant huge cost involved have compelled the Nigerian sports minister, Solomon Dalung to make a passionate...
In yet another innovative way to demonstrate its commitment to positive customer experience, Nigeria’s customer-friendly network, 9mobile in partnership with football betting organisation, 70th Precinct has...
Akwa United emerged the winners of the maiden edition of AITEO Cup on a day penalty kick skill went on holiday. Final score at the final...
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