President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi, on Monday morning shed light on the reason behind the Federation’s decision to go for an expatriate Technical Adviser for the national football team, the Green Eagles.
At a breakfast meeting with the President of African Business Round-table, Alhaji (Dr.) Bamanga Tukur in Abuja, Lulu insisted [...]

Nigeria are in the final stages of talks with Paraguay for an international friendly on March 3, a top official of the Nigeria Football Federation has told KickOffNigeria.com.
Discussions are also said to be going on with Japan for a game in May.
The Super Eagles were due to play Portugal in a friendly in Durban on [...]

By John Egbokhan
A presidential hopeFul in the forthcoming elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Sani Toro, has okayed the redeployment of Shaibu Amodu as coach of the Green Eagles.
Amodu, who led Nigeria to another bronze medal win at the 27th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, was at the weekend, [...]

By Kate Obodo
Former Green Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu, has said the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, should be held responsible for the failure of local coaches assigned to handle the senior national team.
Speaking on a BBC sports programme, Fast-track yesterday, Chukwu said the football authorities never supported local coaches the same way they support their foreign [...]

In line with the emorandum of Understanding  (MOU) entered into by both parties, Oceanic Bank, last weekend, fulfilled  its own side of the agreement with N18 million lifeline to the Delta State Football Association to organise this year’s edition of the Federation Cup.
The Federation Cup which before now was known as the Challenge Cup remains [...]

The sack of coach Shaibu Amodu from the Super Eagles has received jabs from the former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima and Human Rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo.

Moments before he was demoted to handle the home-based Super Eagles he so much vilified, Shaibu Amodu in an interview with Supersports, described all Nigerians who criticised him and the Super Eagles as “enemies of Nigeria and football”.

Ghana President John Evans Atta Mills has announced a $20,000 package to the playing body of the Black Stars for their impressive performance at the just ended Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Angola 2010.

As those saddled with the running (is it ruining?) of football in the country continue to dilly dally on the issue of a coach for the Super Eagles, either local or foreign to replace out of favour Shaibu Amodu, the Edo-born coach has thrown up another debate over who is the best indigenous Nigerian coach.

Lobi Stars Football Club of Makurdi has budgeted over N400million as financial estimates to prosecute the 2009/2010 Premier League Season.