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Lobi Stars maintained their grip on the top spot in the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) after a thrilling 3-2 victory over Rivers United on Matchday 25. The Makurdi-based team secured the win with goals from Tiza Iorwuese, Also Dabani, and Kumaga Suur, while Ukeme Williams and Mark Gibson netted for Rivers United in a closely contested encounter. In other fixtures, Plateau United emerged as the biggest winners with a dominant 4-0 triumph over Gombe United. Silas Nenrot’s hat-trick and Alexander Enejo’s goal sealed the impressive victory for the Jos-based side. Akwa United secured a crucial 3-1 win against…
For a while now, it has been showers of goals by former Nigerian champions, Plateau United. After their recent away 5-1 win over hapless Heartland in Owerri, their goal scoring spree looks unstoppable. On Wednesday, they unleashed a resounding 4-0 win over Gombe United. That leaves the Jos side with nine goals in two matches. The high scores have significantly improved their goal difference which continue to increase with every match. The win allowed the Jos side to retain the second position on the log and with superior goal difference over other contenders with 15 goals advantage. Playing at home and being…
Rangers International F.C continued their fine form since the start of the second stanza of the NPFL 2023/2024 season with a deserved 1-1 draw in Kano as the coach Fidelis Ilechukwu tutored side picked a valuable point off the immediate past coach of the ‘Flying Antelopes’, Coach Abdul Maikaba and his wards at Kano Pillars F.C in a M.D 25, fixture. The encounter which was watched by an appreciable number of spectators inside the magnificent, Sani Abacha Stadium, Kofarmata, Kano, saw the Enugu side dominate proceedings from the start of hostilities and would have been a goal up as early…
The ‘Flying Antelopes’, Rangers International F.C, are in Kano the ‘Centre of Commerce’ in the country with high optimism of maintaining their fine form that has seen the coach Fidelis Ilechukwu side win five of its last six matches without conceding a goal as they confront former coach, Abdul Maikaba in a match day 25, NPFL 2023/2024 fixture. Sani Abacha Stadium, Kofar Mata, Kano will be the venue for the Wednesday, March 13, 2024 highly explosive fixture that will see two of the top three scoring sides in the league come together to fight for the three points at stake…
Rangers International of Enugu coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu is disappointed with his team’s draw at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, saying it’s a temporary set back to the title ambition. The draw halted the Flying Antelopes winning streak of five matches. Kwara United’s goalkeeper, Salihu Dogo was the busier of the two shot-stoppers in the first quarter-hour of the encounter and was the reason the goals refused to rain as he blocked and parried out all that was aimed at his goal especially the fierce shot from Kazeem Ogunleye on 6th minute just as he also did well to deny Godwin Obaje…
The Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) has come hard on referee Katar Mohammed from Niger State for his alleged poor handling of the Katsina United and Heartland game at the weekend. www.sportsunlimited.ng can confirm that referee Mohammed has been suspended indefinitely by the NRA and could face further sanctions upon the full review of the match’s report. A top official of the NRA confirmed that referee Mohammed allegedly made some questionable decisions that eventually influenced the final result of the match. It would be recalled that Heartland were coasting home to their first away victory until the referee awarded a 90th…
Ekioke earns Lobi Stars N.5m for goal against Abia Warriors Lobi Stars’ newest revelation, John Victor Ekioke has made the richer with N500.000 with his late minute goal against Abia Warriors of Umuahia. The central defender who joined the Makurdi side mid-season from Warri Wolves has continued to set tongues wagging with his blistering performance. Before the game, the club’s chairman and Deputy Governor of Benue State, Dr. Sam Ode had pronounced that N500,000 be awarded per goal scored by the team. And the mid-season signing made half a million on Sunday for scoring Lobi Stars’ equaliser against Abia Warriors…
Experienced football administrator, Mike Idoko, has been handed the mantle of leadership at struggling Heartland of Owerri as the five time champions mount the starting block for a spirited race against the dreaded drop from the Nigwria top flight, Exclusivenews.com.ng reports. The Naze Millionaires have endured a torrid 2023/2024 NPFL season, sitting precarious on the base of the 20-team standings with a potential risk of a possible third relegation to the second tier league, NNL. But this is what Executive Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma would not want to happen again as he’s understood to have opted to…
Rangers International F.C’s winning streak in the 2023/2024 NPFL season which would have been six on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in a match day 24 fixture, was cut short by the resolute defending of visiting Kwara United F.C inside the main bowl of Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium, Enugu, as the match ended goalless. Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu kept faith with the majority of the lads that secured the massive win in Kaduna over Niger Tornadoes with Chukwudi Nwaodu, Kazeem Ogunleye, and goalkeeper, Detan Ogundare finding a place in the starting team that produced signs of attacking football from the start of proceedings.…
The 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) witnessed an intense Matchday 24, with thrilling encounters unfolding across various stadiums from Friday to Sunday. In a clash of titans, Lobi Stars battled Abia Warriors to a hard-fought 1-1 draw, as Fabian Omaka’s penalty for Lobi was canceled out by John Victor Ekioke’s late equalizer. Meanwhile, Enyimba secured a crucial 1-0 victory over Doma United, courtesy of Mbaoma Chijioke’s late goal, further solidifying their position near the top of the table. Elsewhere, Enugu Rangers and Kwara United settled for a goalless draw, while Shooting Stars dominated Akwa United with a commanding 3-0…