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It is going to be a battle of the Eagles as two Eagles, the Nigerian Flying Eagles lock horns with The Eagles of Mali in the semi-final match of the ongoing CAF U20 Nations cup. The 7-times African champions, Flying Eagles who qualifies for the semi-final stage of the tournament after beating Niger Republic in their last group stage match following a win and draw each against Burundi and Amajita of South Africa respectively will be looking to put one past a more resolute and coordinated Malian team. Mali, the 2003 2nd Runners-Up are upbeat and confident going into the tie after finishing 2nd in Group B with 6points, scored and conceded 2 goals apiece, behind  Senegal 9points and above a more fancied Ghana and Burkina Faso teams. The Mali's Eagles edged out the Flying Eagles 1-0 at the Quarter final stage of the 1999 world cup hosted by Nigeria, which they eventually finished 2nd Runners-up and will be hoping to book their berth in the finals for the first time in the tour...

The Nigerian football family woke up to sad news of the death of ace sport administrator and ex-international Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi. The news which filter the social media space and newspapers in the early hours of Monday was later corroborated by the demised Special adviser and media aide, Tunde Shamsudeen who confirmed that, indeed, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi had gave up the ghost after a brief illness. Ogunjobi, 65 years, who was rushed to the University College Hospital in Ibadan on Sunday died on Monday morning. Career Ogunjobi rise to the prominence when he played for the Nigeria Academicals against Ghana at the first Nigeria-Ghana Sports Festival in 1974. He emerged as a hero in the match against Ghana as he netted a hattrick in the 5-1 pummeling of Nigeria's regional arch-rival. He would later travel to the United States to further his education, upon completions, he returned to Nigeria to continue his football career. He featured for defunct WNDC now Shooting Sta...

Dream Stars Ladies Unveils Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu as Head Coach Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have unveiled Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu as the new Head Coach ahead of  the 2018/2019 Nigeria Women Premier League season. The newly promoted Lagos based team have finalized the appointment of the widely travelled Enugu born coach. Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu is an experienced coach with an impressive CV, he has had stints with  FC Talanta Kenya, Heegan FC Somali, FIN FA Enugu, FIN Angels, Ambassador Child Youth Club /Angels Enugu. Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu was nominated and recognized by Arsenal FC/ WorldRemit amongst the best 25 Youth coaches across Africa in a pool of over 700 coaches. He is also a CAF License C holder. Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, Mr AbdulRahmon Abolore said the club opted for Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu because of his wealth of experience and he is confident that the former Gor Mahia defender can help the club achieve its objectives. "Our aim is to make the best out of our prom...

It is often said that old habits doesn't quit itself. The new Nigeria Professional Football League season is undoubtedly taking a queue from last season's malaise that plaque the league. A wide range of attacks and assault were carried out on league officiating officers last season by ever growingly home fans across the match venues last season and it was expected, this season, the trend will abated. Despite stern warning by the League Management Company at the commencement of the season that any waring club that is caught in the hub of carrying out infringements on the league referees shall face full length of sanction, alas, just match Day 3 into the new season, the league have already recorded some cases of assault on referees. Re-occurring decimal. Last season, Sunshine stars fans attacked and brutally injured match officials after a goaless duel between Sunshine stars and Kano Pillars in Akure. The home crowd descended on the officials after centre referee sounde...

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...