By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The newly elected Chairman of the Cross River State Football Association, an affiliate of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Rt Hon. Essien Ekpeyong Ayi, has lamented that the last 8 years has been a disaster for football activities in the state. Hon. Ayi stated...
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Sunday in Abuja released a list of 26 players picked for the country’s participation in the 2023 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations in Algeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the list has 16 players from various football academies across the...
The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has directed Bauchi Football Association (FA) to conduct credible election on or before June 14. This is contained in a letter sent to the FA Secretary in Bauchi State and signed by Mr Ali Abubakar, Head, Special Duties at the NFF. It noted that the...
Sani Fema, a former board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said the Super Eagles are a group of talented players without good coordination and head coach. Fema, who is now a Special Assistant on Sports to Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made this known on Monday in Abuja,...
Three sports journalists based in Abuja on Sunday urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to relieve Jose Peseiro of his Super Eagles Head Coach job before it is too late. They made the call following the Eagles’ 0-1 loss to Guinea Bissau on Friday in a 2023 Africa Cup...
Football fans in Ebonyi have advised the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) not to disband the Flying Eagles due to its bronze-medal finish at the just concluded U-20 AFCON in Egypt. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the nation’s men U-20 team did not impress much in the...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has decorated 29 referees with the FIFA badges and charged them to be upright in the discharge of their duties. The NFF President, Ibrahim Gusau gave the charge at the 2023 FIFA badging Ceremony at the Conference Hall of the Goal Project, Abuja on...
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has extended the tenure of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) till the end of the 2022/2023 season. Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, disclosed on Friday in a statement that Ibrahim Gusau, the Federation’s President, said the extension...
By TARGBA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reviewed downwards the registration fees that Clubs will have to pay to take part in this year’s Federation Cup competition. While the male Clubs will part with the sum of N70,000 to be part of...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) FC on Saturday beat Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) FC 1-0 to emerge champions of 2022 All Financial Institutions Football Competition (AFIFC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Saturday match, played under the floodlight at Pantami Stadium, Gombe, was sponsored...
The Nigerian Breweries Plc., has announced Goldberg Premium Lager Beer and Life Continental Lager Beer, as “The Official Beer of the Super Eagles.” The company made this announcement at the launching of Life Beer and Goldberg as Official Brand of National Football Teams, in Lagos on Thursday evening. With...
By TARGBA SHJAAGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced the suspension of football official, Auwalu Baba Jada from all football-related activities, pending investigations into a video that has been trending online, in which he is apparently the principal character. In the viral video, Mr. Jada was...
By TARGBA SHAAGGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has disclosed that former Super Falcons’ player and one-time assistant coach of the team, Maureen Mmadu did not play up to 101 official matches for Nigeria as is being claimed by the former player and promoted in certain quarters....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Feb. 6 for the mention of a suit filed against the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, and former President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick. The matter, which was scheduled for Monday, could not go on, hence, counsel to the...
By TARGBA SHAAGGEE, Abuja – Ahead of Saturday’s Africa U-23 Cup of Nations cracker between Nigeria and Tanzania, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have changed the narratives by swelling the money pot of the Olympic Eagles with the sums of $55,000 and N10 million....
Bankole Olowookere, the Head Coach of the Under-17 Women’s National Team, Flamingos, said the team would continue to fight for a ticket at the final of the ongoing 2022 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in India. Olowookere told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the coaching...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has charged the newly inaugurated Interim Management Committee (IMC) to ensure that the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) work towards returning the nation’s elite football league on television. President of the NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, who gave the...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja The newly elected board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will hold its inaugural meeting on Tuesday at the Federation’s secretariat at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja. A dependable source close to the football house informed NATIONAL ACCORD NEWSPAPER that all elected members of the...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have slipped by one spot to be ranked 32nd in the world in the October world ranking by global football governing body FIFA. In the ranking table released on Thursday, the Nigerian senior men’s national team garnered 1498.47 points in September as against the...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria’s senior men national football team, Super Eagles will confront the Senior National Team of Costa Rica in a prestigious international friendly in the country’s capital, San Jose on 9th November. NFF’s FIFA Match Agent, Jairo Pachon of Eurodata Sport told thenff.com on Thursday, that the three-time...