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  Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, Chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has praised the 20 Clubs that participated in the recently concluded regular season that was abridged to achieve alignment with International football calendar. Elegbeleye spoke on the sidelines of the contract signing ceremony with Propel Sports Africa (PSA) for live streaming of the NPFL in the 2023/24 season and noted that "without the cooperation of the clubs' leadership, the task would have been extremely tedious". He recalled some of the challenges the nascent IMC board encountered and how they were navigated with the support of diverse stakeholders and the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development to steady the course of the season. "Today, I would like to commend the clubs for their understanding and subsequent cooperation with us in implementing our strategies to meet the terms of reference issued to the IMC" "It obviously was a...

  A thrilled President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Wednesday night told Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles to go for all three points against Brazil in their final group game at the FIFA U20 World Cup to sustain their winning mentality. The NFF supremo spoke minutes after the two-time World Cup silver medallists stunned Italy 2-0 in Mendoza to soar to the top of Group D at the ongoing global fiesta in Argentina, with a commanding performance that left the Italians and their thousands of supporters flustered and crest-fallen at the Estadio Malvinas Argentina. Pre-game, the bookmakers had the encounter all in favour of the Italians, who overran Brazil with three goals in a rapturous first 45 minutes on Sunday, before the South Americans reduced the tally by two in the second period. Against the Flying Eagles, the pacy Italians could not find their rhythm and simply watched the Nigerians dominate several sectors of the pitch, with two well-taken second ...

  The emergence of GTI Asset Management & Trust Ltd into Nigeria's football ecosystem has helped to restructure and reposition Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) for greatness following the chains of successes so far achieved in the execution of the 2022/2023 abridged league. Already, the NPFL will be entering another crucial stage of a playoff that will involve the six top clubs in the league to ascertain the ultimate winner of this highly contested soccer season.  Therefore, come June 1 to 11, 2023 the city of Lagos and Mobolaji Johnson Sports Arena, Onikan precisely, will be agog as the three top clubs in Groups A and B of the NPFL respectively will slug it out in what football analysts described as, “Mother of all soccer battles”.Here, all six teams will play each other in a round-robin format to decide the NPFL champions for the 2022/2023 season. Aside from the aforementioned, history will also be made this season as the winner of the NPFL Championship Playoff wil...