The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday signed a five-year deal worth $8.2 million (7.5 million euros) with an oil and gas firm to pay its national team coaches. The contract with energy conglomerate Aiteo is worth 500 million naira ($1.6 million, 1.5 million euros) a year with an option of a year’s extension, the … Read more
Dominic Adiyiah: At the end of the last decade, there weren’t too many young talents in the world who were more highly regarded than Adiyiah. The forward was the Ghana Premier League’s most exciting player in the 2007-08 season, and followed that up with an outstanding performance at the U-20 World Cup in 2009 when … Read more
The Ghanaian was a global phenomenon in the early 1990s but tragically failed to fulfil his potential. So what became of the man tipped for greatness? ‘The new Pele’. It is a tag that should inspire any young footballer to greatness but over the years it has only served to burden, even curse, those labelled … Read more
The 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) might have come and gone but the experiences will most definitely linger for a little while. Cameroon, against all odds, clinched the title at the expense of Egypt – the same team they lost to in the finals in 2008 – thanks to a 2-1 … Read more
Belgian Hugo Broos became the fifteenth foreign coach to win the Africa Cup of Nations. Broos guided a second-string Cameroon side to earn a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Egypt in the final of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Libreville, Gabon. He joins the elite list including Claude Le Roy (France), Pierre Lechantre (France), … Read more
African coaches have always sought to get the much needed glory at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament and the 2017 edition was not different. The late Stephen Keshi was the last coach to achieve this in 2013 when Nigeria lifted the coveted title. However while the 2017 edition had four local coaches namely Callisto … Read more
Less than a month before the start of the African Women’s Cup of Nations in Cameroon, it has emerged that Nigeria coach Florence Omagbemi has not been paid by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). The former international, who played in four Fifa Women’s World Cups, has now gone eight months without pay. The NFF claims … Read more
Samson Siasia, Nigeria’s former under-23 coach, has given the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) a two-week ultimatum to settle its debt to him. Siasia says the NFF owes him five months’ salary arrears from the start of April to August 2016. The 49-year-old led the country to a bronze medal finish at the Rio Olympics. Barely … Read more