NFF President Aminu Maigari will be at the head of Nigeria Football Federation’s delegation to the eighth day prayer for departed Super Eagles’ legend Rashidi Yekini. The prayer holds in his family compound in Ira, Kwara State in the morning of Saturday, May 12. Other members on the delegation are NFF 1st Vice President, Chief [...]
Super Eagles The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Technical Committee, has continued to monitor activities in the Super Eagles camp, with Chairman of the Committee, Chris Green, saying the body is doing so to avoid what befell the country last year when it failed to qualify for the Equatorial Guinea-Gabon Nations Cup championship. Green, who along [...]
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The Nigeria Football Federation has said Calabar will host the Super Eagles 2014 World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations’ home qualifiers in June. Security concerns meant the games had to be switched from Kaduna. The NFF inspected several grounds before settling for the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar for the matches. “The NFF [...]
LAGOS, Nigeria—Nigeria moved its upcoming World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers on Thursday over fears about attacks from a radical Islamist sect and spiraling religious violence in the nation. The Nigeria Football Federation issued a statement saying matches scheduled for June 3 and June 17 would be played at the U.J. Esuene Stadium [...]
John Utaka Foundation was launched at Hilton Hotel, London, Paddington on 6th May 2012. The fundraising event was for the mentally and physically disabled children in Africa. The event was hosted by Fatima Jabbe, a BEFFTA winning actress and event’s organiser. Fatima was supported by Multi award winning Theodora Ibekwe (founder of Miss Elegant International [...]
Super Eagles midfielder, John Mikel Obi KICKOFFNIGERIA.COM Super Eagles midfielder, John Mikel Obi, has dedicated his FA Cup winners’ medal to Rashidi Yekini and promised to further honour the late Nigerian football legend during the Champions League Final slated for May 19 in Munich, Germany. The legendary Yekini who scored Nigeria’s first World Cup goal [...]
By Ben Efe Nigeria’s free fall in the FIFA rankings continued for the month of May as the country dropped three places down to the 63rd position. However, Nigerian football enthusiasts are hopeful that Nigeria will climb back to world reckoning, as the Eagles tackled 36th placed Peru in a friendly on May 23. In 1994 the [...]
Nigeria’s free fall in the FIFA rankings continued for the month of May as the country dropped three places down to the 63rd position. However, Nigerian football enthusiasts are hopeful that Nigeria will climb back to world reckoning, as the Eagles tackled 36th placed Peru in a friendly on May 23. In 1994 the Eagles [...]
LAGOS (AFP) – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has sent messages of condolence to Nigeria following the death of former international Rashidi Yekini. The 1993 African Footballer of the Year died Friday at the age of 48 following a brief illness. CAF president, Issa Hayatou, said: “It is with great sadness and sorrow that [...]
Gospel Singing Is My True Calling — Tope Alabi
Patricia Temitope Alabi (neeObayomi) is a household name in Nigeria gospel music scene. Born over forty years ago into a catholic family, her parents had received a prophecy when she was seven years old that she would be a “great minister of God”. The actress-turned -singer had paid her dues in the entertainment industry before [...]
Air Nigeria to be privatised in two years –Jimoh Ibrahim
Air Nigeria is to be privatised within the next two years. It is expected that the airline would be on a firm footing by then. Chairman of the company, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, said the airline would focus more on international operations with scheduled flights to Dubai, Rome, Paris and Asian countries. Ibrahim, who spoke on [...]
Fashion Night Out, Ghana 2012 Comes Off This Weekend
Entertainment of Friday, 18 May 2012 Source: – Email this Share This Facebook Twitter reddit Google Bookmarks del.icio.us StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Mixx it! Print This Comments (2) « Prev Next » The Ghanaian fashion taste is now on the high and we cannot be blind at the new styles in vogue. Fashion Night Out, Ghana [...]
Nigeria picks 25 players for U-20 invitational tourney
LAGOS, May 19 (Xinhua) — The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has named a 25-man squad for an invitational U-20 tournament in Cape Town, South Africa. Spokesperson for the team Samm Audu disclosed this in a statement reaching Xinhua on Saturday, saying John Obuh, the Head Coach of the national under-20 men’s listed three goalkeepers, eight [...]
Victor Ikpeba, Austin Okocha & the six Legends of the Heineken Champions Planet
SPECIALBy Babajide Alaka The Heineken Champions Planet is located in the heart of Victoria Island. It is a cosy duplex filled with football memorabilia and beautiful hostesses who make sure that fans of the beautiful game never want for anything on match days. In football-speak, the Heineken Champions Planet is football heaven. It is where [...]
Keshi to continue open door policy
Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi stated that he will continue with his policy of giving every player a chance to prove himself despite calls for him to put down a standing team. Former Eagles midfield maestro and technical committee member of the Nigeria Football Federation, Austin Okocha during the week urged the Eagles coach jettison his [...]
