President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday played host to president of world football ruling body, FIFA, Mr Gianni Infantino, at the State House, Abuja. Also present at the parley...
President of world football governing body, FIFA, Mr. Gianni Infantino and the Secretary General, Ms Fatma Samoura will arrive Nigeria in a fortnight on a two...
World football governing body FIFA on Tuesday announced that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has become the first Member Association in Africa to implement the FIFA...
The Nigeria Football Federation has given provisional clearance to all players of erstwhile NPFL club, Giwa FC of Jos to join other clubs. In a letter...
Top sports administrators have commended the decision of the House of Representatives on its resolutions on the leadership ‘crisis’ in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. At...
The family of departed Nigeria coaching legend Shuaibu Amodu has announced that the eighth day fidau prayer for the former NFF Technical Director will take place...
The House of Representatives on Friday threw its weight behind the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation board while warning controversial club owner, Chris Giwa, to stop...
Nigeria has avoided a clash with Egypt as world football governing body FIFA on Wednesday released seedings for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers ahead of the...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, has insisted that the Super Eagles must qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup final. While acknowledging...
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, is fighting back against allegations he’s being greedy in salary negotiations. Infantino accused the man who masterminded reforms of soccer’s global body...
Five Premier League referees failed the FIFA fitness test conducted for candidates from nineteen northern states of the federation. According to the Nigeria Referee Association NRA...
FIFA has fired deputy secretary general Markus Kattner after allegedly uncovering financial wrongdoing during an internal investigation. Kattner, who joined FIFA as director of finance in...
World football governing body, FIFA, will next month announce the top five seeds for the African zone of the 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament with Nigeria...
Newly elected FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has congratulated former Nigeria skipper, Joseph Yobo, on his testimonial slated for Friday in Port Harcourt. FIFA, in a letter...
U-23 Eagles Coach Samson Siasia on Monday met with SuperEagles captain, Mikel Obi, and Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, in London ahead of the football event of...
FIFA broke new ground by appointing a Nigerian based Senegalese United Nations official as its first female and first non-European secretary general on Friday. Fatma Samoura...
World football governing body, FIFA, has suspended Benin from world football with immediate effect following a court decision that blocked the holding of election by the...
FIFA said on Tuesday that the country that will host the 2026 World Cup will be chosen in May 2020, as it resumed the selection process...
Controversial club owner, Chris Giwa, has vowed to storm Mexico venue of the 66th FIFA Congress as the new head of the Nigeria Football Federation while...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ordered FIFA to accept the Gibraltar soccer federation as its 210th member. CAS says it upheld Gibraltar’s appeal against...
Flying Eagles coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, has described his team’s goalless draw with Dream FC of Makurdi on Thursday as good test for the players while expressing...
Ahead of the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has concluded plans to have the Super Eagles engage the Eagles of Mali...
The Amaju Pinnick-led board of the NFF convened an emergency meeting of the Congress on Wednesday where a vote of confidence was passed on his Executive...
The decision by the factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chris Giwa, who made appointments and dissolved the board of the federation, has been faulted...
Former CAF and FIFA executive member, Amos Adamu, has canvassed for restructuring of electoral process that will accommodate compensation mechanism for losers in the election into...
Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has expressed excitement on his appointment by world soccer ruling body FIFA into its Technical Department. Oliseh who resigned recently...
Soccer’s governing body, FIFA, has signed a sponsorship deal with China’s Wanda Group, which will last until 2030 and includes the next four World Cups. FIFA...
The Extraordinary Congress of the Federation of International Football, FIFA, in Zurich on Friday, elected a new president, Gianni Infantino. Infantino is expected to stay in...
FIFA’s appeal committee has partially confirmed the decisions taken by the organisation’s ethics committee against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini but reduced their bans from football...
Real Madrid coach, Zinedine Zidane, has described his side’s transfer ban as “absurd” but believes things will be resolved in the coming week. Real were left...
FIFA on Thursday banned Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid from buying players for one year over their dealing in under-age players. The ban will start from...
Jerome Valcke has been dismissed as secretary general of soccer’s scandal-scarred governing body, FIFA FIFA says its emergency committee fired Valcke with immediate effect and terminated...
The investigator for FIFA’s independent ethics committee on Tuesday recommended a nine-year ban for the organization’s former secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, who served as Sepp Blatter’s...
Platini loses appeal to lift 90-day football ban Michel Platini has failed in his bid to have his 90-day provisional ban from all football activities lifted,...
FIFA’s crisis has caused a sponsorship ‘black hole’ which is so acute that 27 out of 34 slots for potential partners remained unfilled. The corruption scandal...
CONCACAF President, Alfredo Hawit and CONMEBOL President, Juan Angel Napout were among a number of FIFA officials arrested early Thursday morning by Swiss authorities, The New...
Nifemi Daniel World governing body, FIFA, have concluded arrangement to reward Golden Eaglets striker, Samuel Chukwueze, with adidas Bronze Boot after admitting its error in awarding...
Nifemi Daniel Former CAF and FIFA executive committee member, Amos Adamu, says embattled former FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, has been demystified, following the latter’s suspension from...
Michel Platini’s lawyer has reportedly claimed FIFA’s Ethics Committee is seeking to ban the UEFA President for life. Formal proceedings were opened against Platini and FIFA...
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has revealed he was “close to death” during his recent battle with illness. Blatter, 79, was taken into hospital earlier this month,...
World football governing body, Fifa has turned down the appeals lodged by President Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michel Platini against their suspensions over alleged corrupt...
FIFA vice-president Angel Maria Villar was warned and fined 25,000 Swiss francs ($25,000) Friday for misconduct during the 2018-2022 World Cup bid investigation. The light sanctions...
Policemen, Tuesday, raided the Frankfurt headquarters of Germany’s football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched homes of officials of the federation in continuation of investigation into...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu has opted out of the race to become the new FIFA...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . Former Director General of the National Sports Commission Amos Adamu is under investigation by FIFA’s ethics committee, it revealed...
FIFA has confirmed the presidential election will go ahead as planned at an extraordinary congress on February 26. There had been calls for the election to...
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been provisionally suspended for 90 days. Members of FIFA’s ethics committee met this week after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal...
World soccer governing body, FIFA, on Thursday stripped top executive Jerome Valcke of his duties after allegations emerged connecting the 54-year-old to a plan to sell...
Nigeria football recorded a huge applause on Thursday after world football –governing body, FIFA, announced the appointment of the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju...
South Korea’s Chung Mong-joon says he wants to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA’s next president, pitching him against Michel Platini who declared his intention to run...
