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Former Benin Warriors Star Anayo Iwuala Gets National Under-23 Invitation

It was with a smile in my face that I got the news that the national under-23 coach Imama Amapakabor had released the list of players to hit camp as part...... Read more Pascal Durugbor: An Agent’s Joy over Success of Flying Eagles Star and Team

Watching Nigeria’s national under 21 team the Flying Eagles players and officials jubilating widely after the center referee sounded his whistle to bring to an end the hosts Niger vs Nigeria...... Read more Dominic Iorfa as a Metaphor in Football Administration

This column wishes to join millions of football enthusiasts to bid farewell to star player Sala and to extend our condolences to the family. We enjoin the teeming supporters of the...... Read more Late Super Eagles Coach Amodu Had Good Plans for Edo Grassroots Players; Died Poor

Before his passing in 2016, former Super Eagles chief coach Shuaibu Amodu was Director of the defunct Edo State Youth football club, a team of young players plucked from the grassroots...... Read more ‘Benin Arsenal’ Insurance Beat Lobi to Secure First Home Win on Return to NPFL

Bendel Insurance FC of Benin produced a battling ram of a performance to see off visiting defending champions of the Nigeria professional league Lobi Stars 1-0 at their UNIBEN Sports Complex...... Read more Governor Dickson and Bayelsa Queens’ Progression in Women Football

In practising this peculiar profession called journalism, you get all sorts of brushes and you are regularly in the eye of the storm. I have been in the journalism for decades,...... Read more Benin Warriors Beat NNL Side Sapele Lions in Sapele Thriller

Edo state youth club Benin Warriors FC of Benin City have been on a playing tour to Delta state as they prepare for a number of national and international football competitions....... Read more Gernot Rohr’s Conditions for the Return of Victor Moses to the Super Eagles

Super Eagles Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has once again weighed in on the Victor Moses and his possible return to the Super Eagles debate and he has given a forthrightly firm...... Read more Coach Biffo’s Kidnap and Release: Matters Arising!

It is not a normal time in Nigeria, today, be it in the political or sports arena. The centre is not holding. We must not pretend about it, especially the ridiculous...... Read more Bendel Insurance make home bow in NPFL with a disappointing draw against Kwara United

A particular definition describes ‘anticlimax’ as ‘when, at a specific point, expectations are raised, everything is built-up, and then suddenly something boring or disappointing happens. For the thousands of supporters of...... Read more Remo’s classless statement on their fans’ assault on ref shows tacit culpability

Newly promoted Edo state based Bendel Insurance FC of Benin City began their new life in the top flight of Nigerian football (NPFL) in heartwarming fashion for their supporters around the...... Read more Dalung and Amaju Pinnick’s corruption suit

Forgive me if after reading this week’s write-up you find me sound slightly different from my usual self. The most significant event that attracted yours truly in sports last week was...... Read more Grassroots football clubs resume action with Super 8 tournament on the horizon in Delta State

January, and it’s that time of the year when young football players dust their shin guards, clean their boots and hit the road on endurance runs as they look to shake...... Read more Solskjaer makes strong case for permanent Man Utd job; Emery and Ozil playing Mourinho and Pogba

Mauricio Pochettino, the man who Manchester United bigwigs are pining for to take over the managerial job of the Red Devils, came face-to-face against the man in temporary charge of the...... Read more Bendel Insurance resurgence into NPFL, Lobi, Rangers, Super Falcons Friendlies!

You may have read last week’s article on this page on NFF’s purported corruption that is still trending as at the time of piecing this week’s column together. As usual, I...... Read more How Insurance secured long-held promotion dream with young grassroots players who bleed Bendel

“God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.” Christian folks like this saying. Arguments about its ethical soundness aside, it simply implies that sometimes the ones thought to be...... Read more NFF’s attempts to recall Victor Moses should be strictly for a testimonial

Reports recently have it that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is making behind the scenes attempts to ‘persuade’ Chelsea’s Victor Moses (who has effectively been estranged from the Blues first team...... Read more Corruption in NFF: Has the bubble finally burst?

Honestly speaking, if what has been trending on the activities of the executive committee board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is true, then it is safe to say again that...... Read more Remembering Slain Uzama as Iduoriyekemwen tasks youths not to be used for violence

It was a beehive of football activities all over the country as grassroots and community football teams held their annual ‘End of Year’ football matches. in Benin City Edo State, a...... Read more Liverpool, Spurs, City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd: What the big boys need for 2019

Happy new year to you. It’s 2019. Get ready to be used to it now. It’s the time for new year resolutions and everyone makes a resolution that would make him...... Read more Farewell to 2018, Year of Few Achievements and Plenty of Solomon Dalung Blunders

The year 2018 is on its way as history and it witnessed, as usual, the good, the bad and the ugly as sports got its full dose of the battered economy...... Read more Grassroots football coach blasts Pogba for allegedly celebrating Mourinho’s sack, says some of his own players have treated him similarly

Manchester United are back to winning ways with two back-to-back wins in the English Premier League under new manager and former player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. On Boxing Day United hammered visiting Huddersfield...... Read more Father played with Pele, uncle died in the pitch in Sudan. Teenager John Idahor determined to continue family's football rollercoaster journey in a successful way as he shines in Turkey

Talk of one who is from a thoroughbred football family and 18-year old John Idahor, the Bayrampasa Altintepsispor of Turkey suave attacking midfielder fits the bill. Idahor's playing style has received rave reviews...... Read more AFCON 2019: Thumbs Up for Nigeria / Egypt Proposed Friendly

I have decided to give deaf ears to those armchair critics who of course I have described often on this page as idlers of the first order. If you read us...... Read more Ine Stars win IB Champions Cup

Ine Stars have won the IB Champions Cup competition for top grassroots football clubs. In a pulsating final match played at the Crescent Sports Complex in Benin City, Edo State, on...... Read more