League Report

NFF Sets Up Special Covid-19 Task Force

Monday, January 18, 2021
The Nigeria Football Federation has empanneled a special COVID-19 task force charged with working with the various League bodies to monitor compliance with the COVID-19 protocols by all football clubs at all levels of the Leagues, among other responsibilities. Chairman of the NFF Security Committ ...

Covid-19: NWFL Postponed By One Month

Monday, January 18, 2021
The Chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League, Aisha Falode, at the weekend announced an additional one month postponement of the NWFL Premiership season in a frantic bid to ensure strict compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Protocols that were established before the League started on December ...

Nominees For December NWFL Premiership Manager & Player Of The Month Awards Anno

Saturday, January 2, 2021
FC Robo Queens star Monday Gift and Osun Babes forward Yemisi Samuel lead the nominees for the December NWFL Premiership player of the month award announced on tuesday, the 29th of December 2020. Gift Monday produced a stunning month for the 39;Lagos Landladies 39; as she scored the first hat- ...

Kano Pyramid, FRSC Babes Record Victories As Handball League Begins

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Pyramids of Kano and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Safety Babes recorded precious wins as the male and female categories of the National Handball League swung off on Thursday in Kaduna. In the male category, the Pyramids squeezed past the Jos Vipers 27-26 in the opening match of the to ...

Agege thrashes Orile Iganmu in Community Games

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Team Agege Thursday thrashed their opponents from Orile Iganmu in football and table tennis in the fourth day of the ongoing Community Games powered by Olympic Milk from the stable of Nutricima Limited. Orile Iganmu replied with a win in draught in the games contested at the Teacher Training College ...

HOW MTN SECURED LEAGUE DEAL, BY PROMOTERS

Sunday, December 26, 2010
CLAIMS by officials of indigenous telecommunications firm, Globacom, that the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) manipulated the league sponsorship bid process to favour MTN in Abuja has been described by officials of Total Promotion Limited (TPL) as an attempt to inject confusion into process. TPL re ...

CONFUSION REIGNS OVER LEAGUE SPONSORSHIP

Friday, December 17, 2010
MTN takes over Amidst poor handling of the bidding process, South African communication outfit, MTN has eventually breathed life into the Nigeria Premier League after winning the bid as title sponsor of the Nigerian top flight domestic club competition. This followed the N2.5 billion the com ...

MTN SIGNS N2.6B LEAGUE SPONSORSHIP DEAL WITH NPL

Friday, December 17, 2010
Telecommunications firm, MTN Nigeria, has been awarded the title rights to sponsor the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) for the next four years. After two days of deliberations on the bidding proposals from two bidders, the bid committee of the Premier League on Thursday named MTN Nigeria its new t ...

ICC SET TO BRING IN TEST LEAGUE AND PLAY-OFF

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Ashes is one of the few Test series with something meaningful at stake A Test league and play-off system intended to make all matches more competitive has moved a step closer. Results will be fed into an official table to determine the top four teams, who will then go head-to-head to pr ...

NIGERIANS IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Saturday, May 22, 2010
Kanu Nwankwo entered the record of players who scored Champions League goals as teenager when as Ajax player he scored against Hajduk Split in the quarterfinals of the 1995 edition of the competition. The Nigerian captain won the title with Ajax in the same year, and went on to play many other Champ ...
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