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 [...]
World soccer’s governing body FIFA has named Sudanese referee Khalid Abdel Rahman to preside over the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between Nigeria and Namibia next month. The Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Brave Warriors of Namibia will meet at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Nigeria’s Southern city of Calabar 3 June, according [...]
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 in [...]
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 [...]
The Super Eagles will fly to Malawi on chartered flight for a World Cup tie in June to ensure nothing is taken for granted, officials said. The Flames of Malawi will host Nigeria in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on June 9. A top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) official specially told MTNFootball.com: “We plan another [...]
Former Super Eagles Coach, Shaibu Amodu, will not make himself available as the subordinate to Tom Saintfiet, we scooped Wednesday night. Belgian Saintfiet, was last month appointed as the Technical Director of Nigeria football. Interestingly, Amodu, a five-time former coach of the Super Eagles, is one of the local instructors highly favoured to assist the [...]
LAGOS, April 10 (Xinhua) — Nigeria will organize quality friendlies for the Flamingoes, as part of their preparations for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, a top official said on Tuesday. Sanusi Mohammed, the director of competitions for the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), told reporters in Lagos on Tuesday that the association would not take [...]
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has charged the U-20 Women national team, Falconets to go all out for glory and take no prisoners when they take on their Zimbabwean counterparts in a FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifier in Abeokuta on Saturday. The NFF boss made this known in Abuja on Wednesday, [...]
President NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has charged the U-20 Women National Team, Falconets to go all out for glory and take no prisoners when they take on their Zimbabwean counterparts in a FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifier in Abeokuta on Saturday. The NFF boss made this [...]
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has asked to be left out from combining the U-23 job with the mainstream national team job after the technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) sounded him out last week. Keshi made an appearance before the members of the technical committee in view of the forthcoming Africa Cup [...]
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 [...]
