Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) champions Rangers International will begin their defence of their title with a fixture against El-Kanemi Warriors on the opening day of the campaign at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu on Saturday. Rangers will be hoping to ape the last two champions, Enyimba and Rivers United, before them, who began their title defence on a …

The newly promoted Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) side, El-Kanemi Warriors, have won this year’s President’s Cup by defeating Abia Warriors 2-0 in the final at Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan, Lagos, on Saturday. The Maiduguri side thus secured Nigeria’s second CAF Confederation Cup ticket for next season and will vie for honours in Africa’s second-tier club competition alongside Enyimba, who …

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 …