Bendel Insurance became the first team to be eliminated from the title race of this season’s Nigeria Premier League after losing 1-2 to Rivers United 0-2 on Matchday 4 of the championship playoff involving six teams. Insurance were considered one of the favourites to challenge for the title after going through the 18-match group phase without losing a match. But …

Two games to end the championship playoff of this year’s Nigeria Premier League (NPL), any of the six teams in the contest can still end up either as champions or among the elite top 3 that will represent the country in next year’s continental football competitions. But on the strength of their character so far, the odds favour record title …

A win against visiting Sunshine Stars in the rescheduled Matchday 12 fixture is all Rivers United required to book their spot in the Super 6 contest of this season’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), which is in its penultimate week of the group phase. The champions for 2022/23 will emerge from the Super 6 to be staged in Lagos. The …

After last Sunday’s exit from the CAF Confederation Cup, Rivers United will now have to face the outstanding fixtures they accumulated while on continental assignment. The first of the three rescheduled games will be played next Wednesday (10th May) away in Bauchi to Wikki Tourists, who are at the bottom of Group B of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). …

Rivers United manager, Stanley Eguma is certain his club would qualify for the Super 6 playoff despite losing 2-3 to Group B top rivals, Lobi Stars midweek in a rescheduled Matchday 11 fixture in Jos. With that defeat of the title holders, Lobi Stars hold firmly the No 1 spot in the section having established a six-point gap over second …

The path of Nigeria’s elite league champions Rivers United in the knockout stages of this season’s CAF Confederation Cup has been drawn. They have been drawn to face Young Africans of Tanzania in the quarter-finals, with a potential clash against either Pyramids of Egypt or Marumo Gallants of South Africa in the semi-finals. The Nigeria Professional Football League champions were …

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 …

Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike has redeemed his pledge of $20,000 (N15.6 million) to each player and official of Rivers United Football Club, who won the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) title. Wike announced the donation during a reception organised last July in Port Harcourt to honour the team for emerging NPFL champions for the first time. The …

Blame it on the fixtures, blame it on questionable refereeing, blame it on any other factor, but the fact is that, for the fourth season in a row, Nigerian teams have failed to reach the group stage of the CAF Champions League. Lobi Stars were the last Nigerian side to play at the group stage in the 2018/19 season. But …

Season ends with one more team to be relegated  Focus will be on six centres as the curtain is drawn on the 2021/22 season of the Nigeria Professional Football League this Sunday. From either of two venues – Owerri and Ikenne-Remo – will emerge one of Nigeria’s two representatives in next season’s CAF Confederation Cup, while one of the other …