Former Technical Director Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Kashimawo Laloko, has expressed disappointment over the frequent employment of foreign coaches for the senior football national teams, saying that these expatriates succeed because they are given enough time. Laloko stated that the…
Shooting Stars reject NNL season cancellation
Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) have rejected the cancellation of the 2019/2020 Nigeria National League season (NNL) by the League Management Company. In a statement by the Media Officer, Tosin Omojola, the Ibadan based club also called on the Nigeria…
*Judge fumes as defence counsel’s absence stalls Evans trial (Punch) *Lagos reveals what killed Ajimobi (Nation)
Judge fumes as defence counsel’s absence stalls Evans trial (Punch) The trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, was on Friday stalled before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja due to the absence of the counsel for…
Izilien urges NFF to stop ‘wasting money’ on foreign coaches
Former Super Falcons Coach, Godwin Izilien, has urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to halt search for a foreign coach for the senior women national team. He believes that hiring an indigenous coach for the Falcons would reduce the financial…
Green advises NFF to shun quota system in appointment of coaches
A former member of the Nigeria Football Federation Executive Committee, Barrister Chris Green has admonished the football federation to shun quota system in appointment of national team coaches. The advice from the former chairman of the NFF technical Committee is…
Four years after, football world mourns Keshi
Tributes poured in on Sunday for the late Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, who died June 7, 2016, aged 54. The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winning coach, died of heart attack in Benin City, the Edo State capital. World…
Six foreign coaches battle for Super Falcons’ job
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)’s search for a foreign coach for the Super Falcons may have attracted no fewer that six managers, The Guardian has learnt. The NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, had declared recently that he would do everything possible to…
Rohr: Simon salutes NFF on new contract
Nantes’ winger Moses Simon has praised the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) for renewing the contract of Super Eagles’ chief coach Gernot Rohr for another two and half years. He said that the news of the renewal of the Eagles’ handler made…
*Mother who ‘drowned baby’ remanded at LUTH (Nation) *Lagos moves Agege-Pen Cinema flyover completion date (Guardian)
Mother who ‘drowned baby’ remanded at LUTH (Nation) An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos Wednesday remanded a nursing mother Olufunmilola Adisa, suspected of killing baby, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for psychiatric evaluation. Adisa, 22, is believed…
