Real Madrid and manager Carlo Ancelotti have clarified the Champions League winners will compete at next year’s Club World Cup despite the Italian earlier saying the club would “refuse the invitation”. Ancelotti’s comment appeared in an interview with Italian newspaper…
New African Football League to start on Oct 20 -Infantino
The kick-off of the new eight-club African Football League has been confirmed for Oct. 20 by FIFA president Gianni Infantino. He made the announcement at the General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Abidjan on Thursday. The…
Women’s World Cup: Fifa president Gianni Infantino threatens tournament blackout in Europe
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has threatened to not broadcast the Women’s World Cup in five European countries unless TV companies improve their rights offers. Infantino said “disappointing” offers from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France were a “slap in…
Women’s World Cup prize money: FIFA approves 2023 increase as they look to match men’s pay by 2027
With the 2023 Women’s World Cup just around the corner, players and teams have received a welcome boost from FIFA. After dishing out a record sum of prize money at the 2022 Men’s World Cup, football’s governing body has agreed…
Unopposed Infantino set for 3rd term as FIFA president
Gianni Infantino is set to be waved in for a third four-year term as FIFA president when world football’s governing body holds its annual congress in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday. Delegates from the 211 member federations will have…
*Lagos-Ibadan highway: FRSC threatens one-way drivers (Punch)*NDLEA arrests 11 suspects, intercepts drug consignments in wooden statue, imported vehicle (Guardian)
Lagos-Ibadan highway: FRSC threatens one-way drivers (Punch) The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has warned motorists against route violations as construction work resumes on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday. The Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr…
*Adegoke: Lodgers record doctored, says hotel receptionist (Punch)*NEMA evacuates 191 stranded Nigerians from India (Vanguard)
Adegoke: Lodgers record doctored, says hotel receptionist (Punch) Adesola Adedeji, the receptionist on duty at Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, on November 5, 2021, that the late Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, lodged at the facility, on Friday,…
World Cup: Group demands additional slots for Africa
A group, African Network For Peace And Good Governance, ANPG, has written to Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, President, Gianni Infantino, demanding for additional 4 slots to be given to Africa continent before 2026 World Cup. The Executive Director,…
World Cup without beer — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nobody should expect to see me near Qatar in this period of the FIFA World Cup lasting from November 20 to December 18. It’s totally against my constitution to be a part of a so-called World Cup in which beer…
Infantino says criticism of Qatar “hypocritical”
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has accused the Western countries of “hypocrisy” and slammed the criticism towards World Cup hosts Qatar during his opening speech ahead of the tournament on Saturday. “For what we Europeans have been doing around the world…