NPFL Review: Rangers secure Super 6 spot, Abia Warriors and Tornadoes fight to escape relegation
Enugu Rangers secured a spot in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Super Six tournament after a slim 1-0 victory over NPFL newcomer Bendel Insurance on Wednesday, while Abia Warriors are out of the relegation zone after successive victories against Heartland and El-Kanemi Warriors. Rangers 1-0 Insurance Rangers International fought hard to secure the maximum points against relegation battling Insurance in...
WAFU Cup: High-scoring Falcons seek revenge against Ghana
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will lock horns with the Black Queens of Ghana for the second year running in the semi-final of the WAFU Women's tournament on Thursday. The Queens beat the Super Falcons on penalties to reach the final of the WAFU Cup after regulation time ended 1-1 in 2018. This year has been a different ball game entirely...
NPFL: RANGERS EDGE PAST INSURANCE, PICK PLAYOFF TICKET
A well crafted 85th minute goal by former Super Eagles winger, Felix Ogbuke, who came on as a 72nd minute substitute for another ex-Super Eagles star, Michael Uchebo, was all seven-time league champions, Rangers International needed to annex all three points at stake in a match day 20 NPFL 2018/2019 fixture against visiting Bendel Insurance, sports247.ng can report The ‘Flying...
NPFL: Yobe Stars Promise to Pull Down Kano Pillars
Although they are Already Relegated to the Lower Division, Yobe Desert Stars have warned that there will be no Cheap Points for Kano Pillars to pick in Damaturu in their midweek Fixture on Thursday, sports247.ng learns While Yobe Stars suffered slim 0-1 Loss at Akwa Ibom United Last Sunday to Final Confirm their Relegation, Kano Pillars picked the maximum points...
NPFL: ABD’ALLAH PREDICTS TOUGH END TO NPFL SEASON
Enyimba technical adviser Usman Abd'Allah believes the next three sets of matches could be the toughest in the first round of the Nigeria Professional Football League season, sports247.ng can report With only three matchdays left, Rangers International are the only side in group A to have secured passage to the next round of the league, although Enyimba FC, alongside three...
Kanu International Football Academy unveiled in Lagos
Kanu International Football Academy was Wednesday launched in Ikeja, Lagos, with football stakeholders, ex players including Yisa Shofoluwe, Comrade Austin Popo, Orji Kanu, representing AFFED, players and zonal coordinators of the academy in attendance. The football academy with over 20 centres spread across different parts of Nigeria, according to its National Coordinator, Prince Dapo Ajibade, is uniquely different in all...
UNITED, EVERTON & STOKE TEST AWAIT BURUJ BOYS IN FRIENDLY AFTER SUPER CUP!
The organisers of Super Cup, Team Tours Direct, are already working round the clock to ensure that trial games are put in place for the players of Buruj Sports Academy as Nigerian representatives are poised to defend the English Super Cup titles they won in Manchester last year as well as feature in this year's edition of Welsh Super...
IAAF may stop Team Nigeria from Olympics, African Games over ‘missing’ $134,000
World athletics ruling body, IAAF may have put the machinery in motion to stop Nigerian athletes from participating in this year’s African Games in Morocco, the World Athletics Championships in Doha, as well as the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo following the country’s refusal to return the $134,000, which the IAAF mistakenly paid into AFN account two years ago. The...
Kanu canvasses better use of Ilaji Stadium Ibadan
Former Super Eagles Captain, Nwankwo Kanu has canvassed for better use of the newly-built Ilaji Stadium and Resort Centre, saying it has high standard facilities suitable for top sports activities and social events. Speaking during a five-day visit to the Ilaji Soccer Academy located at Akanran, on the outskirts of Ibadan, Kanu praised the proprietor of the sports resort, Dotun...
Attack on Journalists: Kwara Utd Fans Club apologies to SWAN
The Kwara United Fans Club has tendered an apology to the leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, (SWAN) over an attack on its members at the end of Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), match day 19 encounter between Kwara United and Rivers United on Sunday in Ilorin, sports247.ng can report. The apology was tendered at the end of...
