Nigeria asserted their dominance of Group C in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers with a comeback 2-1 win over Cape Verde in Mindelo. The three-time African champions now have maximum points from two games which takes the group favourites three points clear of Liberia atop the table. Their 100% record so far will fill…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles began their road to Qatar 2022 World Cup with a comfortable 2-0 win over Liberia in the Qualification series on Saturday evening. The perfect start was recorded at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, as Kelechi Iheanacho’s brace sealed the points on a sodden pitch after torrential rainfall. It was a dominant…
Like many African professional footballers, the journey is often a long, arduous one to reach the top. Challenges and prejudices faced are just a portion of the price to pay and what it takes to make it in a top-flight division. Much of the same can be said of Paul Onuachu who has slowly proved…
In what felt very much like 90 minutes of post-season football, especially after an intense schedule for all involved. Nigeria versus Cameroon failed to excite. Unsurprisingly betraying the atmosphere of a heated Derby, there were few talking points from Nigeria’s dour 1-0 defeat against their rival neighbours in Austria. The first installment of two friendlies…
As the season continues to coast home in different leagues across Europe, Nigerian players continued to impress for their respective club sides. Gernot Rohr will be more than happy at the moment because his regular attackers in the team have all been tremendous for their employers in Europe. And yet again last weekend, Kelechi Iheanacho,…
Nigeria captain, Ahmed Musa, has officially rejoined Kano Pillars for the remainder of the 2020/21 Nigeria Professional Football League season. Musa joins 11 years after he first featured for his boyhood club. The 28-year-old has been a free agent since leaving Saudi side Al Nassr in October 2020 and embarks on a temporary contract to…
Paul Onuachu was the unfancied hero as Nigeria consolidated their spot above Benin in group L of the 2022 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Nigeria kicked off their penultimate game of the campaign already assured of a spot in Cameroon with two games to spare after Lesotho and Sierra Leone played out a stalemate. The…
The unbeaten Super Eagles look to secure their spot at Africa’s continental showpiece coming up in January 2022. Nigeria lead Group L of the qualifiers table with eight points from four games and victory over Benin or Lesotho will take them to the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The 2013 AFCON champions will square…
Odion Ighalo’s dream move to Manchester United 12 months ago sent Nigerians into a frenzy, as the striker’s surprise transfer resonated around the world. With Ighalo’s United spell coming to an end on January 30, the first Nigerian and seventh African to play for the Red Devils casts our minds back to the greatest Nigerian…
It has certainly been a difficult year for everyone all over the world. For Nigeria fans, even more frustrating as the Super Eagles registered a loss and three successive draws since lockdown, to leave them winless in 2020 (the first winless calendar year since 1970). Although they remain top of Group L with eight points…
