FA chairmen may meet in Katsina over Nigeria’s football brouhaha By Abdulgafar Oladimeji Excluding for last minute changes, state football association chairmen may hold an emergency meeting session in Katsina to deliberate and take a common frontline position on the current crisis bedeviling Nigerian football. Impeccable sources informed this reporter that , efforts have been mounted to convince a good number of state FA chairmen to travel to Katsina, for the final match of the Ahlan /Gusau pre season cup, where they would be chanced to deliberate and fashion out strategy on how to better confront, what they described as…
Author: Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Abdulgafar Oladimeji is a sports writer with over two decades experience in the industry. As a reporter , he has worked with top major Nigerian newspapers, freelancer with newspaper and broadcast media organizations in Africa, Europe and America. He is a well travelled sports journalists reporting major sports events across the globe.
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Special Olympics begins crowd funding campaign to support special athletes The Special Olympics has launched the campaign seeking for 100 new monthly donors to provide resources for the support of its athletes. The campaign is out to attract donors to donating $15 a month to help more athletes compete. The campaign message is tagged “THEY’RE READY TO PROVE EVERYONE WRONG.” Here’s a number that ought to stop you in your tracks, Abdulgafar: “For every Special Olympics athlete who gets to lace up and compete, 13 more are standing on the sidelines, waiting for the resources to get them in the…
How Stress and Prolactin Undermines Fertility In Athletes -Chinwendu Ekwem By Chinwendu Blessing EKWEM For elite athletes, the pursuit of peak performance often demands extraordinary physical and mental exertion. Yet beneath the surface of medals and personal bests, a complex interplay between stress hormones and reproductive biology is drawing increasing attention from sports medicine specialists. New research highlights the delicate hormonal balance required for reproductive health in elite sport—and the risks when training, nutrition, and recovery fall out of sync There are emerging evidence suggests that chronic stress and elevated prolactin levels—frequently triggered by intense training, inadequate nutrition, or insufficient…
Tennis: Davis cup qualifiers 2nd round list announced Shelton, Auger-Aliassime and Zverev headline Qualifiers 2nd Round fieldQualifiers nominations – Ben Shelton Top-10 quartet Alexander Zverev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz are all set to represent their nations in September’s Davis Cup Qualifiers 2nd Round – with Final 8 places on the line across the world. Zverev spearheads the Germany team who take on Croatia in Halle, and is joined in the squad by Yannick Hanfmann, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz. Croatia are led by veteran Marin Cilic, with Dino Prizmic, Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic completing the line-up.…
Nigerians reject NF’F’s apology, calls for football reforms persistsBy Abdulgafar OladimejiNigerians have rejected the apology tendered by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF over the dwindling fortunes of football in Africa’s most populous nation.The President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau had on behalf of the NFF Executive Committee has tendered their apology to president Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the failure of the women’s national team, Super Falcons to secure direct qualification to the 2027 FIFA women’s world cup. However, the Super Falcon also buried their world cup hopes , after they fail to beat South Africa to secure…
Lioness of Cameroon Are The New Crowned Queens of African Football Abdulgafar Oladimeji The Lioness of Cameroon beat Malawi 3-0 at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium on Sundat night to become the newly crowned continental women’s champions The WAFCON 2026 final between Cameroon thrash Malawi to win their first-ever continental title. The goalscorers for Cameroon were Marie Ngah Manga, who scored a brace, and Naomi Eto, with all three goals scored in the first half. Ngah opened the scoring in the 20th minute before Ndjoah Eto doubled the advantage 10 minutes later after being set up by Myriam Nyadjou. Ngah…
Nigeria Football Federation and the Failed Hope. By KDO By KDO — August 14, 2026 kasoba57@ gmail.com Nigerians are not smiling at all about the state of our football. And frankly, there is very little left to smile about. From the failure to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, to the Super Falcons’ latest setback against Cameroon in the race for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil, and the struggles surrounding our U-20 programme, the story has become depressingly familiar: failure on the pitch, followed by business as usual in the boardroom. At what point does failure become…
Again, South Africa stops Nigeria from FIFA women’ s world 2027 in Brazil By Abdulgafar Oladimeji South Africa senior national teams have proven superiority over Nigerian in the seeking for the ticket to compete at the global football biggest stage in the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cup. The Bafana Bafana as the South African men’s national team is fondly called topped the group , where they were paired with their Nigerian men counterpart , they defy all hurdles to deny the Super Eagles the chance to be on parade at the recently concluded FIFA men’s world cup , which…
Next Sunday: Women’s African cup of nations champions will pocket USD 2 million Malawi, the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) debutants, have already written their names in the history books, but that story will continue on Sunday when they face Cameroon in the Final decider in Rabat at 20h00 local time (19h00 GMT). The winner of the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s WAFCON Morocco 2026 will walk away with the prestigious trophy and the significantly increased prize money of USD 2 Million. The USD 2 Million Prize Money is among the highest in women’s national team football. Malawi make…
Nigerian football referees, assessors pre season seminar begins August 15 The Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) has announced its annual pre-season seminar for assessors, referees and assistant referees ahead of the commencement of the 2026/2027 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season. The workshop, organised by the NFF Referees Development Unit, is designed to sharpen the officiating standards, fitness levels and technical knowledge of match officials in preparation for the new NPFL campaign. In a statement signed by the Secretary of the Referees Development Unit, Nasiru Ibrahim, the NRA confirmed that the seminar will be held at the main bowl of the MKO Abiola National Stadium and the FIFA Goal Project, Package B between Saturday, 15th –…
