The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been ordered to pay former Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr about $380,000 in compensation after ending his contract abruptly. Nigeria’s longest-serving manager having taken charge in August 2016, Rohr was relieved of his appointment last December, four weeks before the delayed 2021 Africa Cup of Nations kicked off in Cameroon. The NFF had agreed …

Nigeria’s U17 female football team kick-off the qualifying campaign for this year’s FIFA World Cup in India with a clash against DR Congo at the Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte in Kinshasa. It’s the first leg of the second round of a four-stage route to India 2022 slated for October. Nigeria, along with Ghana, qualified for the inaugural FIFA …