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 Abuja, Feb. 7, 2024 – Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday left Abuja for Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to lend support to Nigeria’s Supper Eagles in their semi-final encounter with South Africa in the AFCON 23 games A statement by Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President,  said Shettima left for Abidjan at the instance of President Bola Tinubu. The match will be played at the Stade de la Paix in Bouake, Côte d’Ivoire by 6.00pm Nigerian time. (GBN)

  Abidjan, Feb. 6, 2024 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed Egyptian, Amin  Omar as referee for Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-final encounter between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and  Bafana Bafana of South Africa. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He said Omar’s compatriots,Mahmoud Abouelregal and Ahmed Ibrahim, would play the roles of assistant referee 1, and assistant referee 2, while Sudanese Mahmood Ismail will serve as fourth official Olajire said that Attia Amsaaed …

Abidjan, Feb. 3, 2024 – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says the Super Eagles’ quarter-final victory at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is in tandem with President Bola Tinubu’s ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’. Ibrahim Gusau, the NFF President, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abidjan on Saturday. NAN reports that the Super Eagles are through to the semi-finals of the AFCON after a hard-fought 1-0 win over giant-killers Angola in Abidjan on Friday. This was after a lovely assist by Moses Simon, slipping in …

Abuja, Jan. 10, 2024 – The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) says it will broadcast live all the 52 games of the forthcoming African Cup of Nations (AFCON). The federal government-owned television station in a post on X said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with AfroSports TV, a cross-continental Free-To-Air (FTA) sports channel. “NTA signs a memorandum of understanding with Afro Sports TV for transmission of 52 games of African Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire,” it said. The announcement by NTA follows weeks of confusion after MultiChoice, the …

Abuja, Jan. 7, 2024 – President Bola Tinubu has cleared the N12 billion debts owed by the Super Eagles and other sporting clubs in the country. The Tinubu Media Centre disclosed this on Sunday in a statement posted on its  X, formerly Twitter,  handle.  “President @officialABAT has approved the payment of the N12 billion outstanding backlog for Nigeria’s National teams in various sports, which includes Super Eagles and others. “The payment entails the clearing of the senior national team coach salaries running up to 15 months and payments of allowances …

Abuja, Dec. 14, 2023 – FIFA, the world football governing body, has approved a total of 30 Nigerian referees to be placed on the international duty lists for the year 2024. These comprised 11 referees, 11 assistant referees, four beach soccer referees and four futsal referees. This is contained in a statement by Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Abuja on Thursday. The referees included Basheer Salisu, Ogabor Odey Joseph, Olufunmilayo Abigael Alaba, Nurudeen Abubakar and Abdulsalam. Others are Kasimu Abiola, Elaigwe Hannah Enekole, Akintoye Yemisi Eunice, …

Awards By Peter Ejiofor London, Dec. 13, 2023 – The Nigerian community in South Africa has commended Super Eagles and Napoli forward, Victor Osimhen, for emerging as the best African Player of the Year, 2023. They gave the commendation under the auspices of the Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) in a stamen on Wednesday. At the CAF awards ceremony held in Marrakech, Morocco, Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala also won the Best Women Footballer of the Year for the sixth time. Nigeria’s women national football team, the Super Falcons, emerged as the …

Cairo, Sept. 27, 2023 – Nigeria has lost her bid to co-host the 2027 CAF African Cup of Nations. Nigeria and Benin Republic bided to host the competition, but lost to the East African neigbours of Kenya, Ugandan and Tanzania. Nigeria hosted the competition last in 1980 when Christian Chukwu led the team to victory. East Africa also hosted the competition last in 1976. Morocco was picked to host the 2025 edition as expected The decisions were taken during the meeting of the CAF Executive Committee on Wednesday. Patrice Motsepe, …

Abuja, Sept. 24, 2023 – Manchester United forward, Marcus Rashford, has been involved in a car accident after Saturday evening’s Premier League match against Burnley, The Sun reports. The Reds’ number 10 had left Burnley’s Turf Moor alongside his teammates aboard a team coach headed to United’s Carrington base. Rashford dented his £700,000 Rolls-Royce on the road while he remains uninjured. Teammate and captain, Bruno Fernandes, came across the scene and urgently stopped to offer help, the report says. Police rushed to the scene but no arrests were made, and …