President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Wednesday inaugurated the new board of the (Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) – the elite division of Nigeria’s domestic football league – while advising the board to take seriously and without caring whose ox is gored, the issue of enforcement of club licensing requirements. “Club licensing is a …

The new board of the Nigeria Professional Football League will be inaugurated on Tuesday. The board was announced last week by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Abuja. The new board will serve a two- year term. Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye will serve as the head of the newly constituted NPFL board. Other members of the NPFL board are Mallam Mohammed …

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has constituted the board of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) with former chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye as chairman of the board. Elegbeleye, a former deputy chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Youth and Sports, and also a former Director-General of the National Sports Commission, headed the …

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Monday charged chairmen and members of the newly-constituted Boards of the Nigeria National League (NNL), Nigeria Nation-Wide League One (NLO) and the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) to come up with feasible plans and marketing strategies that would take Nigeria’s domestic football to new heights. At the inauguration …

Super Falcons coach, Randy Waldrum, has taken a swipe at the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) over the team’s poor preparations ahead of the forthcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup billed to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 20th July to 20th August. It’s been no love lost between the American gaffer and federation officials recently, with Waldrum seemingly frustrated …

President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau on Monday called on FIFA refereeing instructors, who are in Nigeria for three refereeing programmes, to help improve the lot of Nigerian referees to a level that they would be regularly considered for major FIFA and CAF assignments. During a visit by the instructors, Gusau appealed to the instructors from Zambia, …

Super Falcons Chief Coach, Randy Waldrum has released the squad list of players for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The list of 23 players was published on the Twitter handle of the Nigerian Football Federation on Friday, but there was no space for any player from the Nigeria Women’s Football League as all the …

With the semifinals of the Federation Cup being played today, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced a partnership agreement for the prestigious competition with Tingo. Created in 1945 as the Governor’s Cup, the single-elimination is Nigeria’s oldest football championship and has gone through several rebranding and is now known as the Federation Cup. At a modest but colourful ceremony inside …

The leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Wednesday agreed to co-operate and collaborate even more in the interest of safety and security at all football matches within the Nigeria territory. During a courtesy call on the NSCDC Commandant, Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, NFF President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau heaped plaudits …

The Round of 32 of this year’s Federation Cup will be played next week Wednesday across several centres with one of the fixtures featuring a head-to-head clash of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) teams. Plateau United await the winners of the rescheduled Round of 64 game between Rivers United and Enyimba. All three teams are also in the race …