Author: m.green
Players of Kwara United are expected to resume camping on 15 July ahead of 2024/25 Nigeria Premier Football League NPFL season. A club statement confirmed the resumption date today with United’s General Manager Bashir Badawiy expressing the team’s readiness for the upcoming football season. “We as management are doing everything possible for us to have a good campaign in the coming season and we want to thank all our fans for the love and support even as we need everyone for us to succeed together next season.” Mr Badawiy also said top players in the NPFL have shown interest to…
Strategic partners to the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) and Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the President Federation Cup (PFC), GTI Asset Management and Trust Limited has confirmed that Rangers International FC of Enugu has received their prize money of N150million for emerging champions of the 2023/2024 NPFL season. GTI Head of Media Publicity, Andrew Ekejiuba who broke the cheery news in Lagos revealed that winners of the 2024 President Federation Cup (PFC) for men, El-Kanemi Warriors FC also received their prize money of N50million, while the the runners up, Abia Warriors FC got N20million. He further stated that in…
Defender Gbolagade Adelowo received a cash award of half a million naira yesterday after emerging player of the season at Shooting Stars Sports Club 3SC of Ibadan. He beat Christian Pyagbara and club captain Taofeek Malomo to the award. After bagging the accolade, Adelowo was captured in an emotional moment with his mother at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan where 3SC secured a top 4 finish in the top-flight with a 1-0 win over visiting Sporting Lagos. The emotional moment unfolded on the pitch with the player’s mother overwhelmed with joy and gratitude as she knelt, crying and praying…
…As his Contract With Enyimba International Rounds Out Enyimba striker Chijioke Mbaoma has won the Eunisell Boot as the top scorer in the NPFL for the 2023/24 after a rewarding season it comes as this two years contract with the people’s Elephant rounds out with the last game of the season. He succeeds another former Heartland striker, Emeka Obioma, who was top scorer last season. Mbaoma netted his 17th goal of the season in today’s final game against Plateau United in Aba. The Striker who was talk of town when he was not invited to the super eagles of Nigeria…
Remo Stars qualified for consecutive CAF Champions League after a 2-1 win against Katsina United in Ikenne as the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) wraps up with Matchday 38 games on Sunday. First-half goals from Sodiq Ismail and Dayo Ojo sealed the second spot for Daniel Ogunmodede’s side despite Okoro Ibe’s 76th-minute goal for Katsina United. The Sky Blue Stars finished second in the league for the consecutive season and continued their stamp on the league consistency form. Since gaining promotion from the second-tier Nigeria National League (NNL) two seasons ago, the team has not finished below the third…
After two seasons in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Doma United will return to second-tier football after a 1-1 draw with Abia Warriors in the final Matchday of the 2023/2024 season. In need of a win to beat the drop while expecting results elsewhere to favour them, Okike Meme broke the deadlock for the visitors in the 32nd minute to the displeasure of the home fans in Gombe. Three minutes into the second half, Emmanuel Jesam equalised for Doma United but that couldn’t prevent them from a return to the Nigeria National League (NNL). In Ibadan, Sporting Lagos also…
Strategic partners of Nigeria Football Federation and Nigeria Professional Football League, GTI Asset Management & Trust Limited, a member of GTI Group has promised to continue it’s partnership with the football house in order to sustain the successes recorded since their relationship began two years ago. In a speech he delivered at the trophy presentation ceremony for the Champions of 2023/2024 NPFL season at new Jos Township Stadium on Sunday, June, 23, 2024, GTI’s Group Managing Director, Abubakar Lawal noted that he’s happy that after two years of their involvement in the league, they’re steering it to higher grounds. “Today…
The ‘Flying Antelopes’, Rangers International F.C on Sunday, June 23, 2024, at the New Jos Stadium, Jos, defeated Gombe United 2-1 in the last league encounter of the season to amass a total of seventy points in the 2023/2024 NPFL season and crowned champions before an appreciative crowd that had the governors of Enugu and Plateau states. Two early goals in 3 and 7 minutes of the highly entertaining encounter off the boots of Kazeem Ogunleye and Godwin Obaje while the host, reduced the tally in 25 minutes off the boot of Sa’ad Abubakar while efforts to get more goals…
It was excitement galore on Sunday when curtain was drawn on the 2023/2024 Nigeria Professional Football League season at the New Jos Stadium in Jos, Plateau State. It was a day to officially unveiled and present trophy to the new champions of the NPFL, Rangers International Football Club of Enugu. It was also a significant day for GTI for the day marked two years of GTI’s emergence into the country’s elite football ecosystem through its strategic partnership with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) respectively. The Group Managing Director of GTI, Abubakar Lawal could not…
In a rallying call to the private sector, Abubakar Lawal, Group Managing Director of GTI Group has made a compelling appeal for increased corporate investment in Nigerian football. Speaking at the trophy presentation ceremony of the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season, Lawal emphasized the untapped potential of the domestic football market and the benefits of private sector involvement. “We call on well-meaning Nigerian soccer fans, corporate bodies, individuals and multinationals to invest in our league through The Nigeria Football Fund (TNFF),” Lawal stated, highlighting the investment vehicle that has been driving change in the Nigerian football landscape. He…