Tag: NPL

When Warri’s Heart Beats For Heartland

| April 26, 2012 | 0 Comments
When Warri’s Heart Beats For Heartland

When Warri’s Heart Beats For Heartland   Published on April 25, 2012 by pmnews   ·   No Comments Warri Wolves’ aura of fluid play, especially at their home ground was truncated by Heartland Football Club of Owerri last weekend. Wolves, who knocked out FC Kallon of Sierra Leone in this year’s CAF Confederation Cup, were confident the [...]

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Akwa NPL’s most dangerous team – Cooreman

| April 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

Warri Wolves’ trainer, Maurice Cooreman has identified newly-promoted Akwa United as the strongest team in the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) this season. Akwa United have shocked bookmakers with their steady performances this season which has seen them climb up to 5th in the NPL with 29 points from 19 matches. Akwa United are the best-placed [...]

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NPL suspends three referees, two-match bans for Rangers, Warri Wolves …

| April 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

WorldStage Newsonline– The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has slammed indefinite suspensions on Assistant Referees, Taiye Fasanya from Sokoto State and Ehilianbodiaye from Edo State as well as Referee Kadiri Mohammed from Laos State for poor officiating of league matches. The league board also placed two-match bans on Enugu Rangers International technical adviser, Okey Emordi and [...]

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NPL axes three refs, ban Emordi, Cooreman

| April 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has slammed an indefinite suspensions on Assistant Referees, Taiye Fasanya from Sokoto State and Ehilianbodiaye from Edo State as well as Referee Kadiri Mohammed from Lagos State for poor officiating of league matches. The league board also placed two-match bans on Enugu Rangers’ technical adviser, Okey Emordi and his Warri [...]

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NPL top scorer Mustapha Babadidi in Nigeria list for Egypt friendly

| March 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

The 26-player list of home based players that will prosecute the April 12 friendly match with Egypt in Abu Dhabi was released by the Nigeria Football Federation on Friday. And top of the list is the home-based Eagles captain, goalkeeper Chigozie Agbim of Enugu Rangers. The players called up are expected at the Bolton White [...]

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Nigeria resolve soccer crisis

| March 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

ABUJA, March 14 (Xinhua) — Three parties in the lingering Nigerian football crisis have agreed to abide by certain terms and withdraw their cases from the courts and terminate all the legal processes. The agreement, which was the outcome of the prolonged reconciliation meeting which ended on Tuesday in Abuja, also indicated the payment of [...]

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Babadidi sets 30-goals target

| March 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Nigeria Profes-sional League hot-shot, Mustapha Babadidi of Gombe United has vowed to not only break the twenty goal record set by Jude Aneke, the former Kaduna United player now with Warri Wolves, but also set a personal target of 30 goals in the ongoing season. “I want to score 30 goals to set a new [...]

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NFF, Minister’s meeting deadlocked!

| March 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

By OKEY NDIRIBE The meeting between Sports minister Bolaji Abdullahi and the Nigeria Football Federation Board members yesterday ended in a deadlock and may continue on a later date. The minister, we gathered, had told the members to resign following a January 20th court judgment that Nigeria’s constitution did not recognise  Nigeria Football Federation but Nigeria [...]

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Bassey condemns poor officiating in NPL

| March 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Ime Bassey and KATE OBODO One of the 1980 African Cup of Nations heroes, Charles Bassey (MON) has called on the the Nigerian Premier League, NPL board to critically look into the issue of officiating asserting that it is killing the game in the country. Making this known to Inside Out Premier League at [...]

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Nigeria: NFF Must Keep to Peace Terms – Jaja

| March 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

Former Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) president, Dr Sam Sam Jaja, has warned the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to keep to its own bargain in the peace deal brokered to end the football crisis in the nation. Jaja added that he is more concerned to have his name cleared after he was disqualified from the last [...]

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