For the first time this season, Bendel Insurance dropped points in this season’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). But the Benin Arsenal will remain top of Group A as Matchday 6 are concluded in eight centres today. Insurance won all five of their matches – three of them on the road. But they could not add to their winning streak …

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has directed the deduction of three points and three goals from Bayelsa United as a result of reported assault on an Assistant Referee at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenegoa in a Matchday 5 fixture against Doma United, which was played on Wednesday. The Group B matched ended …

MatchDay 4 of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) began on Saturday with two fixtures in Benin and Uyo and was rounded off with the rest of the remaining eight fixtures across the two groups. While title holders, Rivers United overpowered Dakkada in Uyo, it was Bendel Insurance that produced a stunning result after turning back top spot rivals, Remo …

It’s been four weeks of the unusual for the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) as Matchday 4 of the season concludes on Sunday in eight centres. Newly promoted Bendel Insurance have already established a perfect result after four games, for the first time in a long, long period in the Nigerian top flight league. Insurance walloped strong contenders Remo Stars …

Following a raft of requests for fixtures rescheduling by some clubs in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), the Interim Management Committee (IMC) has frozen further approvals indefinitely. In a circular by the Head of Operations, Davidson Owumi cited a directive from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) which frowned at the deluge of requests seen as threatening the integrity of …

Nigeria’s top flight football league is experiencing a positive development. At its fledgling stage this new season, the seemingly impossible situation of home teams winning or playing a draw – at all cost – is being discharged. In 28 matches played since the 2022/23 season of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) opened a fortnight ago, eight away victories have …

MatchDay 3 of the 2022/2023 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season promises another round of scintillating football action with South West and North East derbies the pick of the weekend encounters. Ikenne-Remo and Maiduguri are the venue of the explosive games. The all South West clash in Ikenne-Remo will feature hosts Remo Stars, who have successfully carried on from where …

Niger Tornadoes pipped newly promoted Doma FC 1-0 to go joint tops with Abia Warriors in Group B, just as Remo Stars also completed a 100 percent run after beating Gombe United away from home to lead in Group A of the 2022/23 season of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL). In the MatchDay 2 midweek games played on Thursday, …

Abia Warriors maintained their 100 percent record to the start of the 2022/23 season of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) after brushing aside newly promoted Bayelsa United 3-1 in what was a winning return to the Umuahia Township Stadium in almost three years. The Warriors were quick out of the block as Kalu Nweke scored in the second minute, …