By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced a 40 per cent increase in the prize money for the Winner of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Côte d’Ivoire 2023. CAF said in its official website on Thursday that the winner of...
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The Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to Nigeria, Kalilou Traore, has reiterated his country’s readiness to host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Traore stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. NAN reports that the tournament is scheduled to hold...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday announced Ecobank, a pan-African banking group, as the official sponsor of the TotalEnergies 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Côte d’Ivoire. Head of Group Communication, Ecobank, Christiane Bossom, stated this in a statement...
On September 27, the men who run football in Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were high-fiving and popping champagne. Meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, the governing body of African football CAF, awarded Morocco the rights to host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals, while a joint...
Coach Rasheed Adegbenro says Somalia football league is better organised than Nigeria’s in terms of preparations and welfare. The ex-Kano Pillars player declared this shortly on returned to Nigeria after three seasons in the highly competitive league in Somalia. Adegbenro, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The outgoing President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick has charged frontline candidates for this month’s NFF presidential election to conduct rancour-free, exemplary electioneering campaigns even as they seek the highest football-administration seat in the land. Pinnick, also a FIFA Council...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Mr Football Foundation has been lunched in Calabar, the Cross River State capital through a book lunch, chronicling the life and time of the first Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association, (NFF) and the first executive committee member of FIFA and CAF....
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) says its 2022/23 interclub competition would kick-off on September 9. CAF made the announcement in a statement posted on its official website, cafonline.com, on Wednesday. “The 2022/23 season will kick-off on Friday, 09 September 2022 with the preliminary rounds of both the TotalEnergies...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – President of The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr. Amaju Pinnick amomg alongside the NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi among other dignitaries will attend a fiesta organized in honour of a former three-term Secretary-General of the football body Etubom Oyo Orok Oyo. The celebration...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF)has condemned Napoli President, Aurelio De Laurentiis, over his controversial comments that the Italian Serie A club would no longer sign African players unless they agree not to play in the African Cup of Nations (AFCON). Speaking on Wall Street Italia show. Laurentiis said...
YAKUBU SOLOMON, Abuja – The Executive Committee of Confederation of African Football (CAF) has approved a revised Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 qualification calendar. The committee, in a statement on the confederation’s website, said this was because of its commitment to allowing the African nations heading to the...
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, has said Nigeria and Benin Republic are likely co-host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Guinea has been awarded the hosting rights for 2025 but Africa’s football ruling body, CAF may likely strip Guinea of the hosting right of the biennial African...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has increased by 150 percent the prize money for the 12th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) which gets underway in Morocco on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tournament will kick off with hosts Morocco facing Burkina Faso...
A fine of 150,000 Swiss Franc (about 154,128.75 USD) has been slammed on Nigeria by the World soccer ruling body, FIFA. FIFA imposed the fine on Nigeria over the unruly behaviour of the fans at the end of the second leg Qatar 2022 World Cup play-off between the Super...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday confirmed the death of a FIFA/CAF Medical Officer, Joseph Kabungo, after the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoff match between Nigeria and Ghana. Mohammed Sanusi, NFF’s General Secretary, made the confirmation in a statement by the Federation’s Communications Department, and expressed shock and...
The East African nation of Zambia has confirmed the death of its football official in Nigeria, a situation that could expose Nigerian football to FIFA sanctions. The Football Association of Zambia confirmed the death of Joseph Kabungo, a CAF/FIFA medical officer, in Abuja after Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier second...
The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development will give free bus rides to fans as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) approved full capacity for the MKO Abiola Stadium ahead of the 2022 World Cup playoff between Nigeria and Ghana on Tuesday. A statement by the ministry noted...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The first Secretary of the Nigeria Football Association (since 1958) late Etubom Orok Oyo popularly known as “Mr. Football” is to be immortalized by family and friends after 14 years after Federal Government’s unfulfilled promises. To this end, the family with support from friends and...
The Confederation of African Football has released a list of its Best XI for the just concluded 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament won by Senegal. CAF announced the 2021 AFCON Best XI in a tweet via their Twitter handle following the conclusion of the tournament in Egypt...
The final of the Africa Cup of Nations will go ahead at the Olembe Stadium in Yaounde after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Sunday lifted its suspension of the venue where eight people died in a crush on January 24. CAF’s announcement means that the second semi-final...