Brazil's soccer federation announced on Friday that the national team will play Ghana and Tunisia in September in preparation for the Qatar World Cup, with players hoping to secure a spot in the tournament's 26-man squad later this year.
The Brazilian federation announced on its website that the matches would be held on September 23...
Ayo Akinfe
I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the...
Ayo Akinfe
I am surprised that despite the hundreds of thousands of clergymen and millions of churches and mosques littered across Nigeria, nobody has been able to see the parallels between our current situation and the case of Cain and Abel. We should be analysing this interesting biblical myth and use it as a template to find...
Ayo Akinfe
I am sure a lot of you get asked why Nigeria is so populated often. How come about half of the 360m people living in West Africa are Nigerian and one in five Africans is Nigerian? Even countries with more arable land like DR Congo, Angola and Tanzania are not as populated as us. How many of you have the answers?
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SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has revealed that he turned down the opportunity of playing for English Premier League side Arsenal in 2015 despite their then manager Arsene Wenger being very keen to sign him.
Osimhen, 23, is currently in Abuja with the rest of the Super Eagles squad, preparing for tomorrow's World Cup...
LEICESTER City anchorman Wilfred Ndidi has become a big doubt for Nigeria's World Cup two-legged play-off against Ghana later this month after picking up a kneed injury while playing for his club in the Europa League.
Ghana will host Nigeria in the first leg of a 2022 World Cup play-offs on March 25 with the return leg...
ENGLISH Premier League side Watford has declared Super eagles skipper William Ekong fit again indicating that he will be available for Nigeria's World Cup play-off against Ghana later this month.
Nigeria will play Ghana is a two-legged play-off that will determine who qualifies for the World Cup, with the first leg taking...
NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have expressed delight about the fact Leicester City winger Ademola Lookman will now be eligible to feature for the Super Eagles having been cleared by Fifa to represent the country.
Lookman, 24, is currently on a season-long loan spell at Leicester City where her is playing...
NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials and their sports ministry colleagues have begun appraising a report on the Super Eagles' early exit from the African Cup of Nations after which they will decide the fate of interim coach Augustine Eguavoen.
Widely tipped to win the ongoing 33rd African Cup of nations taking place...
NIGERIA may not have heard the last of former Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr yet as there are indications that he may be appointed as Ghana's manager and lead the Black Stars out in the impending World Cup play-off between both nations in March.
In the final qualification round for Qatar 2022, the Black Stars of Ghana...
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