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Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have secured promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League after finishing top of Group B at the Benin center of the Pro-League playoff. Hon. Tajudeen Ajide, Chairman Surulere Local Government Dream Stars Ladies defeated Police Ladies Machine in the first match 1-0 before confirming their place in the NWPL with another 1-0 victory against Moje Queens to finish top of Group B. Dream Stars Ladies Captain, Judith Nwaogu expressed her excitement after leading the team to the NWPL describing it as a dream. Meanwhile, Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, AbdulRahmon Abolore has congratulated the players, coaching crew and everybody connected to the club for gaining promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League. Mr. Abolore also urged the Ladies not to be complacent imploring them to work harder in other to give a good account of themselves in the NWPL. The Chairman also reserved special praise for Surulere Local Government Chairman, Hon. Tajudeen Aj...

Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have secured promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League after finishing top of Group B at the Benin center of the Pro-League playoff.         Dream Stars Ladies Dream Stars Ladies defeated Police Ladies Machine in the first match 1-0 before confirming their place in the NWPL with another 1-0 victory against Moje Queens to finish top of Group B. Dream Stars Ladies Captain, Judith Nwaogu expressed her excitement after leading the team to the NWPL describing it as a dream. Meanwhile, Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, AbdulRahmon Abolore has congratulated the players, coaching crew and everybody connected to the club for gaining promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League. Dream Stars Ladies secured promotion to the NWPL at the expense of  Police Machine of Akwa Ibom and Moje Queens of Kwara. Dream Stars players, coaching crew and Chairman Mr. Abolore also urged the Ladies not to be complacent imploring them to work hard...

The Super Falcons of Nigeria will today begin their title defence of the Africa Women Cup of Nations trophy they won two years ago in Cameroon. They will open their account against the Banyana Banyana of South Africa in the opening Group B of  the ongoing Total 2018 AWCON in Cape Coast, Ghana. Much has changed since the last time Falcons won the Championship 2 years ago, Florence Omagbemi, who guided the team to their 10th titles, had her contract unrenewed after the expiration of her current contract which hitherto left the team without a head coach for over a year before the appointment of Swede's Thomas Dennerby as the team head coach in January by the NFF. The team was hastily assembled in February to play a Grade A friendly match against France which resulted in the French team whitewashing Falcons 8-0. The team remained inactive for further four months until few days to the qualifying match against Gambia which they won comfortably with 7-0 aggregate score to qualify for t...

Super Eagles of Nigeria secured their qualification ticket for Next year Africa Cup of Nations after a stalemate encounter against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa on Saturday's afternoon at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. The much anticipated match which has many undertones for both sides was marred by questionable calls by the ref in either side of the halves but Eagles' ensured they reclaim their berth in the newly expanded format of the biannual Continental football tournament with a game to spare in the qualifying series, after missing out on two consecutive editions. The match started on a brighter note for the 3 times African champions as Bordeaux outfit striker Samuel Kalu forced the onrushing Bafana Bafana's defender Buhle Mkhwanazi to an own goal inside the opening 10minutes of the match. In the absence of the regular starters, Odion Ighalo, Wilfred Ndidi and Francis Uzoho,  coach Gernot Rohr adopted 3-5-2 formation allowing Jamilu Collins to initiate and sup...

It was a thrilling and exciting 4 days of training and synergy boding for the Super Eagles players at Stephen Keshi's stadium in Asaba as Gernot Rohr put the necessary cross and final dots to the preparations for the epic showdown against Bafana Bafana of South Africa billed for this weekend. The German tactician who was forced to make a substitutions call-up for two of his most consistence players in recent time was optimistic the team is ready to face any challenges in South Africa as they depart for Johannesburg on Thursday night. Odion Ighalo who has been in prolific form lately, scoring 20+ goals for Changchun Yatai F.C. this season was reportedly injured after his last time outing for the Chinese club. The injury trend wasn't limited to the Eagles' striker alone as goalkeeper Francis Uzoho was equally forced to withdraw his invitation for the AFCON 2019 qualifier match due to injury sustained while in action for his LA Liga Segunda club Elche CF. Meanwhile, Wi...

Updates  on (AWCON) AFRICA WOMEN'S CUP OF NATIONS The National team of Equatorial Guinea has been reintegrated to the Total  Women's Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2018 after the team was initially disqualified for allegedly fielding an ineligible player. Kenya had approached the Continent's Appeal Board to disqualify Equatorial Guinea alleging that Annette Jacky Messomo was not eligible to feature for Equatorial Guinea in a game against Kenya which sealed the qualification of Equatorial Guinea after the victory against Harambee  Starlets. CAF, through the decision of its Appeal Board on September 8, had hastily ruled in favour of Kenya and disqualified Equatorial Guinea  when the East African country  protested against the eligibility of Annette who featured for former African Champions  in the fixture but on the 7th of November, the CAF Appeal Board upturned it earlier vague decisions and reinstates Equatorial Guinea and give them Green light to pa...

The southwest zonal elimination for National Sports Festival has reach the top gear as teams expected to participates across the zone arrived Obafemi Awolowo stadium Ibadan, Oyo state capital yesterday and today. The event which is slated between 18th-20th October is expected to produced zonal champions in team sport like football, basketball, volley ball, handball, Abula, cricket etc for the December 6 to December 16 National Sports Festival in Abuja.   Teams and delegate from Lagos, Ogun and the host state Oyo are already on ground while the event coordinators are doing their best to sort out accommodation and other essential logistics has athletes are seen being usher to their hostel. Meanwhile, the coordinator of Team Lagos had a brief meeting with the captains of respective teams from #TeamLagos captains. He encouraged them to be patient and make do with what was provided for them by the organizers in terms of facilities and logistics. He promised that their allowances ...