With 31 points in the bag and three matches to end the group phase of this season’s Nigeria Professional Football League, Bendel Insurance will secure their spot in the Super 6 if they beat Gombe United at Pantami Township Stadium in Gombe on Sunday. If they win all their remaining matches, Akwa United will end up with 35 points, while …

Two games wrapped up Matchday 15 in this season’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) on Monday evening with Wikki Tourists v Rivers United the only outstanding. CAF Confederation quarterfinalists, Rivers did their progression no good with their 0-2 home loss to Yong Africans of Tanzania yesterday. In Group A, Bendel Insurance put their five-game winless run to rest by handing …

Bendel Insurance on Saturday defeated the El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri 2-1 to extend their unbeaten run in the 2022/2023 season of the Nigerian Professional Football League. Winless in five straight matches, Group A leaders Insurance hosted the Matchday 15 encounter at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin under an intermittent heavy downpour. The first half of the match ended in …

Matchday 14 will be concluded this evening with games across nine centres. Thereafter, each team have four more matches to determine whether they will progress to the Super 6 and contest for the title, stay on in the elite Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), or be kicked downstairs to the lower division. No team in the two groups of 10 …

It’s the longest unbeaten run in the top flight of Nigeria’s club football. Thirteen games played in the season; seven won, the others drawn. The honours belong to no other club that the Benin Arsenal (officially Bendel Insurance)! Until they struggled to four straight draws in their last four matches, the 51-year-old club’s position at the apex of Group A …

The second stanza of the 2022/23 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) got under way this weekend with 21 goals scored in the 10 matches. Here is a recap of the Matchday. In the Group A top of the table clash between Enyimba and Bendel Insurance, the visitors picked up a draw to remain unbeaten after Matchday 10. The People’s Elephant …

After the mid-season break and the election layoff, action resumes in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) this evening with Group B’s last placed team, Dakkada hosting Niger Tornadoes at the Nest of Champions in Uyo, while Rangers welcome Bayelsa United to Awka City Stadium. The remaining eight matches in the two sections of the league will be played tomorrow. …

Bendel Insurance maintained their unbeaten start to the season after a 2-2 draw away to Shooting Stars at Adamasingba Stadium, Ibadan on Sunday. Insurance took the lead within seconds of the kick-off through Imade Osehenkhoe and doubled their lead in the 37th minute through Ismael Seriki. But Shooting fought back, first through Ayodeji Malomo just before halftime in the 43rd …

League joint-top scorer, Osarenkhoe Imade has played down talks tipping him to win the highest goal scorer award for the 2022/23 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). The Bendel Insurance striker has notched four goals in six games already this season, and he is tied with Plateau United defender Emmanuel Ifeanyi with many backing him to add more in the 12 …

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 …