Nigeria will look to build upon their blistering start when they face Ecuador at Santiago de Los Caballeros on Saturday for their second Group A match of the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Dominican Republic. Bankole Olowookere’s team thrashed New Zealand 4-1 in their opening match at the same venue on Wednesday, while Ecuador secured a 2-0 win …

Nigeria’s Flamingos began their U-17 Women’s World Cup campaign on an impressive note by beating New Zealand 4-1 on Wednesday night. The ladies dominated most part of the game, getting on the score sheet as early as the 2nd minute with Shakirat Moshood slotting home from inside the box. Khadijat Adegoke, Fardiat Abdulwahab, and Taiwo Afolabi joined the party in …

An assistant coach and an analyst with the Canadian women’s football team were on Wednesday sent home from the Olympics Head coach Bev Priestman also announced she will take no part in the opening game of Canada’s gold medal defence, against New Zealand. The decisions come after a staff member was detained by French authorities for flying a drone over …

A jury in New Zealand found a South African woman guilty on Wednesday of murdering her three young daughters, saying she faced a life sentence for each killing. Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021 at their home in Timaru, a city on the South Island, about a month after the family had …

On a day that world-governing body, FIFA marked exactly 100 days to the biggest FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in history, Nigeria’s Super Falcons spanked  2023 co-hosts New Zealand 3-0 in a friendly in Antalya, Turkey that also marked a third consecutive win for the nine-time African champions. Captain Onome Ebi, who is heading to her sixth FIFA World Cup …

The Super Falcons will seek victory over FIFA Women’s World Cup co-hosts New Zealand in Turkey on Tuesday to prove that their recent wins over Costa Rica and Haiti were no flukes, team captain Onome Ebi has assured. Goals by Esther Okoronkwo and Asisat Oshoala steered the nine-time African champions past Haiti in Antalya on Thursday, for a second consecutive …

A leader like Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand doesn’t come in tens. Not even in twos. And so, it was such a bright day on 26 October 2017, when she took office as New Zealand’s Prime Minister. She was 37-years-old and also the youngest head of government at the time. What’s there not to love? But now, more than five …