Spartak Moscow striker Emmanuel Emenike has promised a $50,000 reward (about N8 million) to the Super Eagles if they qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Nigeria lead a qualifying group for Brazil 2014 that includes Malawi, Kenya and Namibia with five points from three matches. Emenike, who is out of next month’s World [...]
Nigeria has moved up three places in the new FIFA ranking released early today at the football governing body headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland. In the latest ranking, the Super Eagles, who were ranked 31st in April, now occupying the 28th spot in the world, moving three places ahead of Norway, Japan and the USA. The [...]
Many Nigerian ex-footballers, who have meritoriously served the nation during their active days, are now living from hands to mouth. Some of these former footballers are living in abject poverty despite giving their best for the country. Nigeria is one of the countries which quickly forget their heroes after they retire. Samuel Okwaraji, of blessed [...]
Adegboye Onigbinde, a former Super Eagles Head Coach, has said that the only way football could thrive unhindered in the country was through a viable administrative structure. Onigbinde told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the ongoing rancour between the League Management Company (LMC) and club owners was needless. The veteran coach [...]
Head Coach of Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt, Gbenga Ogunbote has said he is thrilled with the performance of the club in their last two NPFL matches. The Port Harcourt side have picked up four points from a possible six in their last two games, and Ogunbote hopes this could be the start of [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has warned the Golden Eaglets to be up and doing or they would be thrown out. Smarting from the team’s runners-up finish at the 2013 CAF U-17 Championship, the NFF has categorically told the coaching crew not to condone any undisciplined conduct ahead of the 2013 World Cup in the [...]
A high-profile Nigeria league match between champions Kano Pillars and Heartland of Owerri was abandoned on Wednesday after police shot a fan at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, northern Nigeria. “The match was called off after Heartland refused to continue the game after a fan was shot in the foot by police inside the [...]
