Author: Brila

Former Captain of Nigeria’s basketball national team D’Tigers Olumide Oyedeji has stated that efforts to convince NBA All-stars and Miami Heats Nigerian-American player Eedris Bam Adebayo to play for Nigeria will be a very tough task.

Kano Pillars football club have relegated the team’s head coach Ibrahim Musa following the arrival of French tactician Emmanuel Lionel at the club with the French man signing a year contract.

Chairman of the Nigeria Nationwide League NLO and executive committee member of the Nigeria Football Federation Mohammed Alkali has stated that league football is set to return as the different tier of league football gear up for their respective congresses.

Rivers United goalkeeper and Nigeria Super Eagles goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai has stated that he hopes to make the most of the club’s continental campaign together with the league when it returns to get the attention of the national team coaches in a bid to be under the national team radar once again.

Nigeria professional football league clubs will be allowed to make five substitutions in the 2020-2021 season.

Former Super Eagles winger, Garba Lawal has described the most criticized Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho has a lucky goalscorer.

Former Katsina United coach Henry Makinwa has called on the federal ministry of sports and the NFF to give palliatives to the players in NPFL ahead of the new season.

Sunshine stars coach Gbenga Ogunbote has stated that he hopes the November 15 league kickoff dates for 2020/21 is sincere and remains unchanged after having suffered a number of postponements already.

Former Nigeria assistant coach Nduka Ugbade has expressed the desire to work with the Super Eagles in the future as the number of players that have passed through his tutelage continues to increase. 

Plateau United coach Abdul Maikaba has stated that he is confident of leading first-team affairs for the Nigeria Professional Football League 2019/20 champion when the team gets her continental campaign underway.