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Flying Eagles Win Super 4

By Footyalert → Friday, 30 January 2015

Nigeria U20, the Flying Eagles, have won this year’s Super 4 with a match to spare after they thrashed Dolphins 4-1 on Friday.

The Flying Eagles recorded an unassailable 12 points after they won all their four matches thus far.

Nigeria U23s are in second place on eight points, while Enyimba have seven points.

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Solomon Babanjah: Nasarawa United Is The Team To Beat In 2015

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Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Nasarawa United has been tipped to be the team to beat in 2015.

The team manager of the Lafia based club, Solomon Babanjah spoke to Footyalert at the Abuja national stadium where he came to see the LMC pre-season tournament.

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Flying Eagles Start List Vs. Dolphins

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Suspended defender Zaharadeen Bello has returned to the Flying Eagles starting XI after serving out a one-match ban, while Obinna Nwobodo will get his first start for the Flying Eagles at the Super 4 Friday against Dolphins.

Ali Chiwendu will also get a first start for the Nigeria U20s in place of Mustapha Abdullahi at left-back.

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Super 4 Match Day Four: Kano Pillars Vs Warri Wolves Team List

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Kano Pillars Starters: Afelokhai Theophilus 22, Promise James 12, Tswanya Samuel 25, Cletus Itodo 21, Reuben Ogbonnaya 27, Anthony Abawula 6, Mbah Ezekiel 24, Ubong Ekpai 14, Adamu Hassan 19, Christian Obiozor 11, Godspower Anefiok 29

Reserves: Fabiyi Emmanuel 5, Nura Ibrahim 33, Buhari Musa 34, Shagari Mohammed 7, Abdul Haruna 20, Nafiu Ibrahim 31, Abubakar Umar 4, Rabiu Ali 8, Loute Isaac 13, Hele Isaac 23, Tony Edjomarigwe 28, Murtala Adamu 3

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Eguma Rings More Changes

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Worried that his side has not been able to score a goal in three games at the Super 4, Dolphins coach, Stanley Eguma has decided to ring more changes, especially to his strike force.

Ocheme Edoh and Christian Pyagbara who started in attack for Dolphins in their last game have been left out.

While Pyagbara starts from the bench today, Edoh is entirely out of the starting lineup.

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Super 4 Match Day Four: Enyimba Vs U/23 Team List

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Nigeria U23 Starters: Jonah Usma 16, Iroha Chukwuebuka 2, Christopher Madaki 3, Ichull Lordson 18, Olawale Doyeni 6, Olabisi Samuel 13, Newman Doumbra 12, Yahaya Adamu 14, Usman Mohammed 4, Joel Promise 7

Reserves: Zaradeen Usman 1, Lawrence Sunday 5, Michael Ibe 10, Jonathan Osondu 11, Andrew Michael 17, Sheriff Faisal 15

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Super 4: Kano Pillars Vs U-23 Team List

By Footyalert → Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Kano Pillars Starters: Lawrence John 16, Promise James 12, Isaac Loute 13, Eneji Otekpa 15, Adamu Murtala 3, Joel Djondang 26, Mbah Ezekiel 24, Abdulazeez Shobowale 30, Adamu Hassan 19, Godspower Anefiok 29, Christian Obiozor 11

Reserves: Afelokhai Theophilus 22, Emmanuel Fabiyi 5, Abdul Haruna 20, Shagari Mohammed 7,

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Super 4 Match Day Three: Match Officials

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Match1:

Ref- Ukah Nsubuisi (FIFA) Imo

AR1- Baba Abel (FIFA) Kogi

AR2- Musa Dung Davou (FIFA) Plateau

Fourth Official- Udoh Aniete Ferdinard

Match Two

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Warri Wolves Vs Flying Eagles Team List

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Flying Eagles Starters: Joshua Enahola 1, Rowland Silas 5, Saheed Abdulganiyu 6, Mustapha Abdullahi 3, Musa Mohammed 2, Akinjide Idowu 4, Ifeanyi Matthew 15, Alfa Abdullahi 10, Wasiu Jimoh 8, Sulaiman Abdullahi 14, Taiwo Awoniyi 18

Reserves:

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Flying Eagles Start List Vs. Warri Wolves

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Flying Eagles coach Manu Garba has made four changes from the team who started against Kano Pillars for Wednesday’s Super 4 clash against Warri Wolves.

Central defender Zaharadeen Bello has been suspended after he picked up his second booking against Pillars and so he will be replaced by Roland Silas.

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NFF Sad At Death Of 'Flying Cat’ Agbonavbare

By Footyalert → Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Acting President of Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi has expressed deep grief of the Federation and the entire Nigeria football family at the death of former Super Eagles’ goalkeeper Wilfred Agbonavbare.

The former Senior National Team number one goalie’s affliction with cancer was reported a couple of weeks ago, and the news was broken that he died in the early hours of Tuesday in Spain.

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Nigerians To Cheer Dream Team At El Menzah

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Members of the Nigerian community based in Tunis will turn up in large numbers at the Stade el Menzah on Wednesday to cheer the U-23 National Team, Dream Team, in the second of their two international friendly matches against the U-23 National Team of Tunisia.

Giving this assurance in Tunis on Monday, the Ambassador of Nigeria to Tunisia, His Excellency Dr. Joseph Apeh Omede, said the leaders of the Nigerian community had been duly contacted and have

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NNWL Cancels Super 8 For Division Two Winners

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The Nigeria Nationwide League (NNWL) have officially announced that the scheduled Super Eight Tournament for winners of the NNWL Division two winners has been canceled.

The Nationwide League has three division in its league,ie. Division one is the third level league in Nigeria while division two and three are the forth and fifth level league.

The top Eight teams in the division two were to take part in the tournament tagged "Super 8" where

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Gold Cup:Supreme Court, KFA Replace Prime, First Bank

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Following Prime Football Club and First Bank Football Club of Lagos, withdrawal from the Gold Cup Pre-Season Tournament, the organizers have replaced both teams with Supreme Court FC of Abuja and Kwara Football Academy, Ilorin.

Prime FC and First Bank were reported to have withdrew from the tournament due to logistic reasons, as stated by top officials of both teams.

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Super 4 Day Two,Match Two: Kano Pillars Vs Flying Eagles Team List

By Footyalert → Monday, 26 January 2015

Kano Pillars Starters: Theophilus Afelokhai 22, Tswanya Samuel 25, Loute Isaac 13, Otekpa Eneji 15, Reuben Ogbonnaya 27, Joel Djondang 26, Tony Edjomarigwe 28, Abdulazeez Shobowale 30, Gambo Mohammed 9, Rabiu Ali 10, Christian Obiozor 11

Reserves: Lawrence John 16, Emmanuel Fabiyi 5, Adamu Murtala 3, Adamu Hassan 19, Abdul Haruna 20, Nura Ibrahim 33, Buhari Musa 34, Shagari Mohammed 7, Promise James 12, Godspower Anefiok 29, Ezekiel Mbah 24, Ekpai Ubong 14

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Super 4 Day Two: Enyimba Vs Warri Wolves Team List

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Enyimba International Football Club Starters: Moses Ocheje 2, Bright Esieme 28, Ifeanyi George 3, Chima Ulocha 20, Chinedu Udoji 26, Ifeanyi Anaemena 27, Ezekiel Bassey 29, Ebenezer Odeyemi 12, Raphael Boumsong 18, Kamaldeen Sikiru 19, Etor Daniel 13

Reserves: Paul Godwin 30, Ojobo Markson 17, Uche John 5, Razak Aliyu 25, Chimezie Amanfor 15, Chinonso Okonkwo 23, Muhammed Abdullahi 6, Bashir Abdulraman 7, Chibuzor Madu

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Ibenegbu: My Aim Of Joining Warri Wolves Has Not Been Met

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Warri Wolves midfield marshal, Ibenegbu Ikechukwu has disclosed that his aim of joining the club has not been fulfilled, thus, he has urged his team mates to brace up and win something with him this season.

Ibenegbu who is well known in football circle as "Mosquito" revealed the main reason of playing for the Warri based team is to win trophies and he believed the team can do it if all work together.

According to Ibenegbu, a member of the National Beach Soccer team, he loves to have trophies displaced on his shelve and will do everything to motivate the strong team being assembled by the Club.

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NFF Mourns Coach Musa Abdullahi

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The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed deep sorrow at news of the death of one-time Head Coach of the U-17 National Team and a former Assistant Coach of the Super Eagles, Coach Musa Abdullahi.

Coach Abdullahi, who suffered a stroke several years ago and had been confined to his home in Kogi State since then, died on Sunday and was buried the same day.

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NFF Congratulates Udoh, Oshoala

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The Nigeria Football Federation has congratulated the duo of FIFA-badged referee Ferdinand Udoh and African Woman Player of the Year Asisat Oshoala for deserved strides they made in the past few days.

Udoh, 28, and much respected for his athletism, firmness and strict application of the rules of the game, has been selected by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as one of the referees for the 11th African U-17 Championship taking place in Niger Republic, 15th February – 1st March, 2015.

Oshoala, Most Valuable Player of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in Canada, and also undisputable choice for same honour at the African Women Championship in Namibia last year, signed a professional contract with Liverpool Ladies Football Club of England.

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Siasia: We Must Show Greater Character In Second Match

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Head Coach Samson Siasia has charged his U-23 National Team boys to show character and resilience when they take on the the U-23 National Team of Tunisia in a second international friendly match in Tunis on Wednesday.

“I don’t want to blame the players too much for the loss to the Tunisians in the first match on Saturday. Without appearing to be making excuses for them, we arrived in Tunis on Friday afternoon and immediately went to training but the weather did not help matters.

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DreamTeam? No, Its Time For The NFF To Rename This Team

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Guest Blog by Sola Rogers

The Nigerian Men's national football team were initially nicknamed the Red Devils until Veteran Journalist and Sports administrator Peter Osugo made a case for the name of the team to be changed to the Green Eagles in the early sixties.

A quick look at Nigeria's "coat of arms" and flag would reveal were the inspiration for the naming of the Mens football team and some other sports teams derived their names from.

The Green in the team's name was taken from the Nigerian National Flag

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Super Six: Low Spectatorship, The Solution

By Footyalert → Sunday, 25 January 2015

The Super Six tournament got underway on Saturday with less than one thousand spectators at the 60000-seater Abuja National Stadium.

Kano Pillars, Dolphins, Enyimba International, Warri Wolves, Dream Team VI and the Flying Eagles were all in action in the match day one of the competition.

The poor patronage of the tournament is not the influx of the major European leagues, but lack of adequate planning by the organizers of the event.

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Choice Of Abuja Wrong For Super 4 Pre-Season Tournament

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Guest Blog: Prof. Patrick Omo-Osagie

The Super Four/Six is a very good football event/product, yet it is floundering in all the wrong directions. It is being played in the largest stadium (60000) in the country, in the least football loving city (Abuja), playing five games in eight days (per team), playing three games a day on a natural grass surface, an absolute guarantee the destruction of the grass for months to come.

In sport event management or production, the first consideration like in most other businesses is

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Manu: Flying Eagles Finishing Must Improve

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A 10-man Flying Eagles defeated Enyimba 2-0 in a Super 4 match on Saturday in Abuja, but coach Manu Garba insisted his team have to improve on their finishing after they threw away many chances.

The Nigeria U20 team took the lead through a penalty converted by captain Musa Muhammed in the 62nd minute after Ifeanyi Anaemena fouled rampaging Taiwo Awoniyi inside the box.

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Futball Galore Unveils Soccer Awards

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Futball Galore has unveiled an ambitious soccer awards that will focus on identifying the best coaches and players in the 2014/15 Nigeria Women Premier League campaign.

Nigerian football journalists and prominent icons have joined Futball Galore in the launch of the award programme in Abuja on Thursday.

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Plateau NUJ Chairman Loses Dad

By Footyalert → Saturday, 24 January 2015

Chairman of NUJ and former SWAN Chairman Mr Yakubu Taddy in Plateau State has lost his father, Teddy Pam Mann.

The old man died on Tuesday while sleeping on his bed at his residence in Bukuru, Jos South, Plateau State.

He left behind two wives and eighteen children. He died at the age of one hundred and five years (105).

Taddy was the first police boss in Plateau State during the colonial era, he was also a member of the West African force.

Among his children is the current

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Super 4: Enyimba Vs Flying Eagles Tema List

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Enyimba Internatioonal Football Club: Chijioke Ejiogu, Bala Zakka, Uwadiegwu Ugwu, Chima Ulocha, Chinedu Udoji, Uche John, Ifeanyi Anaemena, Chinonso Okonkwo, Emma Egesi, Nzube Anaezemba, Andrew Abalogu

Reserves: Moses Ocheje, Bright Esieme, Ifeanyi George, Emma Anyanwu, Ezekiel Bassey, Ebenezer Odeyemi, Mohammed Abdullahi, Razaq Aliyu, Chimezie Amanfor

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Flying Eagles Team List Against Enyimba

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Skipper Musa Muhammed will lead the Flying Eagles against Enyimba in today’s Super 4 opening day clash at the Abuja National Stadium.

Kick-off time is 3pm and the match will be televised live on television.

Coach Manu Garba has lined up a strong team against the Nigeria league runners-up last season.

Mountain of Fire FC of Lagos goalkeeper Joshua Enaholo will start behind a defence of skipper Muhammed, Mustapha Abdullahi, Prince Izu Omego and Zaharadeen Bello.

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Eguma Trust Dolphins Team To Face Kano Pillars

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Porthacourt based Dolphins FC aren't ready to experiment new faces as the Pride of Rivers do battle with Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) champions, Kano Pillars in the opener of the Super 4 slated to start today at the Abuja National stadium.

Head coach of the side, Stanley Eguma has stuck with his team of last season as he hopes to build on what he had last season.

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Sani Lulu Upheld Innocence In Corruption Charges

By Footyalert → Friday, 23 January 2015

Former president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has upheld his innocence in the corruption charges leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) which has stayed behind in a Federal High Court in Abuja for the past five years.

Abdulllahi was impeached in 2010 and has since being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency for

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Chelsea Offer John Obi Mikel Plus Cash For Paul Pogba

By Footyalert → Thursday, 22 January 2015

English Premier League Side, Chelsea FC are planning to include Super Eagles midfielder, John Obi Mikel in a cash plus player deal for Paul Pogba who currently plays for Juventus.

John Obi Mikel who is an integral part of the Nigeria team, the Super Eagles has been mentioned along with two other Chelsea players considered to be included in the said deal to bring the France international, Paul Pogba who scored against Nigeria in the 2014FIFA World Cup in the round of sixteen.

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Windapo Targets Trophy With Confluence Queens

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The captain of Nigeria Women Premier League side, Confluence Queens FC of Lokoja Windapo Tobiloba has promised the fans that her side's target this season is to lift a trophy for the club.

According to the Wada Queens' skipper, she said "my target with the club is to help the team lift a major trophy this season, the team is good enough to win either the F.A Cup or League cup."

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Nigeria Football Blogs You Should/Must Check Out

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A couple of years back it's a tough task to get updates of Nigeria football news on the internet. Though you'll get to read stories of Nigerian players abroad or some national team news on websites like bbc.co.uk, kickoff.com and goal.com while forums like Nairaland.com and cybereagles.com were a must to check out daily.

Click here to place a bet and smile to the bank

To get or follow live score update of local football league wasn't in the picture at all, so basically it's a tough battle to get news update of

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Anaezemba Keen To Shine With Enyimba At Glo League Super-4

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Nzube Anaezemba says he expects that this year's Glo Premier League Super-4 Tournament will be a much more enjoyable tournament for him compared to last season's experience. The midfielder recounts how he spent last season's tourney without even making a substitute appearance in all thematches Enyimba played enroute winning the tournament.

Nzube in a chat with www.npfl.ng said, "Last year was a very painful experience for me. It was my first experience in the Glo League Super-4 but I did not start or play for one minute. I was eager to

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Warri Wolves Storm Abuja Friday

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Warri Wolves Football Club will arrive Abuja on Friday for the Super Six with 35 players and 10 Officials with the aim of doing better than last year where the team came second, losing only to Enyimba after thrashing Kano Pillars and Bayelsa United.

In a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday by the Media Manager of the Club, Etu Moses, the

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Samson Siasia Selects Team For Tunisia And Super Six

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Chief Coach of the national U-23 men's football team, Dream Team VI Samson Siasia has selected 21 players who will tackle the Tunisia U-23 men's team in a two legged encounter in Tunis and also 35 players who will also take part in the forth coming Super 6 2015 globacom premier league pre-season tournament coming up this weekend in Abuja,

Addressing the players before releasing the list, Coach Siasia said the players were selected based on their

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Nigerian Referees Get get UK Visas, Off To London On Monday

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The second batch of Nigerian referees to go for capacity enhancing programme in the United Kingdom, since the advent of the Amaju Pinnick –led NFF Board, will depart the country on Monday.

All the 20 referees have been issued entry visas into the United Kingdom, and they

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FAKA League Resumes As Table Toppers Leo Welcome Ablaze FC

By Footyalert → Wednesday, 21 January 2015

With the FA U15 Kiddies Amateur league resuming today following the festive break, 2 points seperate the top 6 sides after 7 weeks of action in various football fields across Lagos.

With a total 13 Points and a league best record of 4 wins 2 losses and a solitary draw, table toppers

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Ahead Glo League Super 4: Excited Dolphins Players Predict Tough Tourney

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There is excitement and high expectations in the camp of Dolphins FC, one of the teams involved in the Glo Premier League Super 4 (invitational) tournament featuring four top teams of the league and two junior national teams.

Dolphins, last season's Federations Cup losing finalist and 2015 CAF Confederation Cup hopefuls regrouped on Sunday ahead of the tournament which serves as the opener to what promises to be a busy 2014/15 football season for

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Ahead Glo League Super 4: Ikhana Seeks Tittle Brace For Enyimba

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Glo Premier League Super 4 defending champions, Enyimba International FC of Aba have had a slow start to the season and Coach Khadiri Ikhana insists however that they are good to successfully defend the trophy they won last season. Players of the 2014 Federations Cup champions were expected in camp Monday afternoon as the undisclosed issues that kept them away from camp was said to have been resolved.

Ikhana admitted that the club may not have had the best of a build-up to the

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Eguma Explains Dolphins FC Late Start

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Dolphins head coach, Stanley Eguma has explained why his team resumed one week behind schedule for the 2014/15 football season.

Dolphins officially opened camp on Sunday, January 11, 2015 but did not get a full house of players until one week later and Eguma explains that.

“It’s very unfortunate that we are starting very late but a lot of things attributed to it.

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Flying Eagles Thrash Warriors 6-0

By Footyalert → Tuesday, 20 January 2015

The Flying Eagles stepped up their build-up for this weekend’s Super 4 in Abuja with a confidence-boosting 6-0 win over NDC Warriors at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna on Tuesday.

Sunshine Stars striker Prince Aggrey opened scoring for the Nigeria U20s after 13 minutes and 10 minutes later skipper Taiwo Awoniyi won a penalty, which was put away by Ifeanyi Ifeanyi.

Wasiu Jimoh then saw his goal-bound effort crash against the post on 33 minutes.

The Flying Eagles extended their lead in the 68^th minute when Usman Hassan headed home off a

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Dolphins Prepare Ahead Of Super 4

By Footyalert → Monday, 19 January 2015

Dolphins playing and coaching personnel have moved their training sessions to Omagwa, a town outside Port Harcourt to perfect their strategies.

The team that eventually got a full house on Sunday are now at a hotel in Omagwa, close to the International airport and held Monday morning training session at the practice pitch of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium.

All but one of the

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NFF: Pinnick Didn't Attend CAS Hearing

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The Nigeria Football Federation has denied a report in a section of the media that its President, Mr. Amaju Pinnick was in Laussane, Switzerland last week to testify in a case before the respected Court of Arbitration for Sports by some football stakeholders led by Ambassador Chris Giwa.

“Our attention has been drawn to a report that the NFF President, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick, and Ambassador Chris Giwa testified before the

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Dolphins Sign Khaleej Sirte SC defender, Onyekachi Akakem

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Dolphins have announced the signing of Onyekachi Bartholomew Akakem from Khaleej Sirte SC of Libya.

The defence strong man who is comfortable in central defense and defensive midfield has also been registered to play for the team in the CAF Confederation Cup that starts next month.

Onyekachi Akakem is good with both feet, a good man marker and is a combative defender.

He is calm and comfortable on the ball and

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NNWL Approve Stadium For Division One Teams

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The Nigeria Nationwide League (NNWL), a third level league in Nigeria have released a list of approved stadia for clubs that will participate in the 2014/2015 season.

The NNWL inspected participating teams home ground and they have released a list stadium deem fit to host NNWL matches.

Below is the list:

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Musa Yahaya, Chidera Eze Arrivals Boost Flying Eagles

By Footyalert → Sunday, 18 January 2015

Musa Yahaya and Chidera Eze are set to join up with the rest of the Flying Eagles squad in training camp in Kaduna, just as several other players have confirmed their own arrivals.

According to Flying Eagles secretary Aliyu Auwal Ibrahim, Musa Yahaya from Tottenham Hotspur youth academy and Chidera Eze of FC Porto have

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Manu Back Golden Eaglets For Glory

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Manu Garba, the 2013 FIFA Under-17 World Cup-winning coach, believes the Niger 2015-bound Golden Eaglets being managed by Coach Emmanuel Amuneke can go all the way at the 11th African cadet championship.

Watching the new lads for the first time during Saturday's 2-0 win over Nigeria National League side,

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Nigerian Clubs Missing In IFFHS 2014 Top 100 Club World Ranking

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In the latest club world ranking released by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) no Nigerian football club made the first two hundred but three clubs from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) made the top five hundred clubs in the world.

The IFFHS have since 1991 make the club world ranking with results from all official competitions in the world. It's no surprise that no Nigerian club ranked high, non of the Nigerian clubs that

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[Video] Kano Pillars FC Celebrating After Their 2012 NPFL Triumph

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[Video] Inauguration Of Nigeria Sports Data Base And Hall Of Fame Committee

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Nigeria football news,

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Eagles Hail NFF, Crave For More

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After two exciting friendly games against Cote D’ Ivoire In Abu Dhabi and Yemen in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), losing the former 1-0 and winning the latter by 2-0, the Super Eagles made up entirely of professional players from the Nigeria Premier League have commended the leadership of the NFF under Amaju Pinnick, for the friendlies even as it has asked for the sustenance of friendly games culture.

Speaking on behalf of his teammates, Skipper of the side, Chigozie Agbim, said all the

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Golden Eaglets Snatch 2-0 Win Against Sokoto United

By Footyalert → Saturday, 17 January 2015

Nigeria's U-17 team, Golden Eaglets on Saturday beat Sokoto United 2

-0 at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.

Kaduna's home boy Suleiman Abdullahi and languid striker, Victor Osimhen scored twice in the second stanza to break the resolve of their more experienced opponents who fought like Trojans throughout.

In fact, it took some gallantry display on the part of Sokoto United's goalkeeper Masud Isah for keeping the score line at a respectable margin against the

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Tony Pulis Challenges Brown Ideye

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West Bromwich Albion record signing, Brown Ideye has been urged by the club's manager, Tony Pulis to retain a positive state of mind as he continues his search for a run of goalscoring form.

The Super Eagles striker, Ideye has just scored once in the Premier League this season having netted a consolation in last month's game against Manchester City.

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However, Tony Pulis believes the former Dynamo Kyiv hit man is more than

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2015 Africa Cup of Nations Full Fixtures

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The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Equatorial Guinea 2015 will start today without the defending champions, Nigeria because the Super Eagles just didn't do enough to qualify for the tournament.

Below is the teams in their groups and fixtures:

Group A

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Rotimi, Douhadji, Egwim Make Dolphins CAF Confed Cup Team

By Footyalert → Friday, 16 January 2015

Captain of Dolphins, Sunday Rotimi, Togolese born defender, Joseph Yaovi Douhadji and attacker, Ifeanyi Egwim are some of the players registered by Dolphins for the CAF Confederation Cup.

Dolphins start their campaign on the continent on the 14th of February in Malabo against Leonas Vegetarianos FC and have already submitted a list of twenty two players to the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF.

Sixteen players from the team of last season will join five newly acquired players to do battle in the Confederation Cup.

Sunday Rotimi is the only goalkeeper returning from the

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