Just as the controversy raised by the donation of N6 million to six PDP chieftains to buy lunch at a meeting in Port Harcourt last week is yet to abate, Spendthrift governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio today again splashed another whooping N36.5 million on the super eagles with a promise to do more. The latest display of profligacy by the governor was in his words to appreciate the national team fo ...

Forty eight hours after resigning his appointment as the Head Coach of Nigeria's national team, the Super Eagles, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has made a u-turn on the decision and withdrew his letter of resignation which was submitted to the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF in Soweto, South Africa shortly after his team's 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso in the AFCON final match on Sunday. A statement sent round t ...

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi today vindicated iReports-ng.com by confirming the story of his resignation exclusively reported by this news site yesterday. Keshi's media handler, Emma Ado had confirmed same report to iReports-ng.com yesterday. The coach however personally told a South African radio station today that he had resigned after leading the country to win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title. "I gav ...

Head Coach of Nigeria's national team, the super eagles may have resigned his job minutes after leading the team to win the African Cup of Nations tournament final match in South Africa. Keshi's Kaduna based Media Consultant, Emma Ado, confirmed the development and attributed the coach's action to hostility from the management of Nigeria's football federation, NFF. Meanwhile, Nigerian President Goodluck Jon ...

A hat-trick from Francisca Ordega gave Nigeria a deserving 4-0 victory over Italy to qualify for the quarter final of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup going on in Japan. The forward opened the floodgate in the 22nd, 40th and 47th minutes while substitute, Osarenoma Igbinovia added the fourth in the 86th minute to give Nigeria the maximum three points with seven points to lead Group B. The player who is featu ...

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), as a Party, joins concerned Nigerians at the import of the dismal performance of the Nigerian team at the recently concluded 2012 London Olympics where the country failed to register on the medals’ table, the worst in twenty four years. Undoubtedly, this poor showing is an anti-climax to the peak reached in our Olympics participation with the Atlanta ’96 haul of si ...

Nigeria international, Samson Siasia has expressed his appreciation to Nigerians for the support he received during his 11-months reign as chief coach of Super Eagles. The Bayelsa born coach was today finally axed by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) executive committee based on the recommendations of its technical committee who had met about a fortnight ago. “I just want to thank all Nigerians, the fa ...

Members of the senior national team, the super eagles have resolved their disagreement over travel plans to Madagascar. Vincent Enyeama, Mikel John Obi and Victor Anichebe have been branded rebels for rejecting the Air Nigeria aircraft chartered by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the trip for this Sunday's Nations Cup qualifier. The players alleged that the country could afford a better aircraft g ...

All is not well in the camp of Nigeria's women national football team, Super Falcons following the decision by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to decamp them and pay them paltry camping allowance of N10,000 after spending four weeks in the camp. Each of the senior female footballers was said to have been paid the shocking allowance after they managed to secure a 2-1 win over the Lioness of Cameroon in ...

Columbus Crew midfielder Emmanuel Ekpo will replace Osaze Odemwingie in the Nigeria squad after the forward withdrew due to a recurrent ankle injury. However, Ekpo will only join the squad in Bangladesh where the Super Eagles face Argentina in a friendly match. Nigeria coach Samson Siasia called up 25 players to prosecute two games in September, the first being a 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against M ...