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Former Nigeria coach Adegboye Onigbinde has been persuaded to rescind his decision to withdraw from the NFF Technical Committee. Onigbinde early in the week lashed out at the committee, claiming he was being marginalized in the decision-m...
Former coach of Ethiopia and Namibia Tom Saintfiet Thursday afternoon arrived the office of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for a meeting over the post of technical director. Saintfiet is top favourite for the job as he ...
Nigeria woes continued in the latest FIFA ranking released on Wednesday by the football governing body. Last month Nigeria fell to her worst ranking since 1999 when the Super Eagles fell to 56 in the world and eight in Africa, now Nigeria drop o...
Norway-based midfielder Fengor Ogude and Elderson Echiejile from Portuguese club Sporting Braga are top of the new list of overseas-based pros to be invited for Nigeria’s next game. Officials informed MTNFootball.com that Coach Stephen Keshi is s...
A FIFA investigator says that the first stage of his probe into international match-fixing has turned up no evidence implicating South Africans. A handful of Bafana Bafana games in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup are under investigation, including fri...
Sam Emehelu, a consultant to the Nigerian Golf Federation (NGF), has said that the implementation of the federation’s developmental programmes would produce world-class players like Tiger Woods and Ernie Els. Emehelu told NAN yesterday in Lagos t...
Working for Roman Abramovich will be “hell” for the next Chelsea manager, according to former Blues boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. Abramovich is looking for his eighth permanent manager since 2003 after sacking Andre Villas-Boas on Sunday. &ldqu...
Director of Technical at the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme yesterday dismissed insinuations in a section of the media that the FIFA Technical Centre, otherwise known as the Goal Project, where the technical crew of the U-17 National ...
A forth night ago, Vitali Klitschko defeated Dereck Chisora on points in Germany in defence of his WBC title. And tonight Vitali’s younger brother and holder of the WBO, IBO, IBF titles, Wladimir will fight Frenchman Jean Marc Gilbert Mormeck in ...
With Manchester City and their neighbour, United enjoying 10 and 8 points advantage respectively on the top of the Premier League ahead third place Tottenham, the title race is certainly between the first two. But the intense battle to follow in the En...
The Spanish league can be said to be over as Real Madrid leads the table with 10 points and 14 games remaining. Real Madrid won arguably their toughest match of the season last weekend when they defeated Real Vallecano by a lone goal while Barcelona al...
The 2012 Lagos International Polo Tournament has opened with record team entries for some of the cups. MTN is the main sponsor of the tournament but more than half the event’s N80million revenue was donated by subsidiary sponsors such...
The media officer of Heartland FC, Cajetan Nkwopara, has boasted that his team is ready to crush any team that comes their way, believing that the players of the team have bounced back to form with injured ones back in action. Heartland FC who had been...
superSport.technical committeecom can report authoritatively that Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has resigned his membership of the NFF . Apparently irked by the happenings in the committee, Onigbinde told SuperSport.com that he has decided to opt out of the...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has assured Nigerians that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles, will qualify for the 2013 African Cup of Nations to be staged in South Africa. Maigari spoke in Abuja as...