NWPL19: MD 3 Match Officials Appointments
The match Day Three Match Officials appointment the Nigeria Football Federation Referees Committee has the Math Day One Referee of the Week Eunice Amallam return to action in Lafia as the 2019 Aiteo Cup Champions Nasarawa Amazons trade tackles with the Newcomers Kaduna Babes Football on Wednesday 7th August 2019 at the Lafia Township Stadium. All Match Day Three matches...
Jigawa Golden Stars to resume for NPFL season August 17, sack nine players, retain 21
Jigawa Golden Stars will resume in preparation for the start of their return to the Nigeria Professional Football League on August 17. The Hadejia based side secured their return to the topflight recently after they defeated NAF Rockets of Abuja in the NNL playoffs and the team has made some adjustments to the squad that won them the ticket...
Diego Simeone slams Real Madrid, says they don’t have any style
Diego Simeone, the manager of Atletico Madrid, has now slammed Real Madrid claiming that the latter does not have any style of playing the game. The Argentina national was involved in an interaction with the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación where he shed light on numerous issues. One of the things he was speaking about was how different clubs have...
Premier League 2019/2020: New Introductions …Part one
Ahead of the 2019/20 season, we look at the new things to keep an eye out for in the Premier League. Video Assistant Referees (VAR) The new Premier League season will be the first to feature VAR after it was approved in November 2018 by the clubs and tested over the course of the 2018/19 campaign. All 380 matches will have a...
16 Nigerian Wrestlers to attend 2019 Africa Games
The Nigeria Wrestling Federation says 16 wrestlers will represent Nigeria at the forth coming Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco as against 23 that hoisted the country's flag at the last edition in Congo. Technical Director of the Wrestling Federation, Damien Ohaike said the list was reduced from the 23 taken to the last Games to 16 to as only competitors in...
Nigeria to face Togo for CHAN 2020 ticket and other fixtures across Africa
Runners up at the last African Nations Championship competition, Nigeria’s Eagles B team will slug it out with Hawks of Togo in the final qualifying round for the 2020 edition in Cameroon. Nigeria were beaten 4-0 by the hosts of the last competition, Morocco in the final on a cold night in Rabat but they must negotiate their way past...
LMC notifies NPFL clubs of September 22nd league resumption date
The League Management Company has announced that the 2019-2020 Nigeria Professional Football League season will kick off on September 22, 2019, and conclude on May 17, 2020. The 2019 season ended in June and it saw the emergence of Enyimba as champions for a record eight times after they won the Championship Playoffs in Lagos. Kano Pillars came second while...
Football stakeholders gather in Enugu to celebrate the recovery from the ailment of Christian Chukwu
It was a gathering of who-is-who in football as former Green Eagles captain and Super Eagles manager, Coach Christian Chukwu (MFR) went for a thanksgiving service to show appreciation for God’s mercies on his safe return from a hospital in London where he went to treat a health challenge. St. Philip Anglican Church, Obe, Nkanu West LGA of Enugu state...
Pillars tour Kano metropolis with Aiteo Cup trophy
Kano Pillars have paraded the 2019 Aiteo Cup title they won to their fans in Kano on Monday afternoon. Sai Masu Gida rounded off their closed camping in Kaduna on Sunday after they pipped All-Stars of Zaria 2-1 in a repeat of the test game they played on Thursday which they lost by the same scores. They also thrashed...
Fidelis Ilechukwu vows to stabilize Heartland at the unveiling ceremony
Heartland FC Head Coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu has opined that he will work hard to ensure that the Naze Millionaires are a more stabilize side at the end of the season. Ilechukwu was unveiled as the Owerri side coach yesterday as a replacement for Ramson Madu in a short ceremony performed by the Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha. The former MFM...
