The embattled board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, sacked Super Falcons’ Coach, Justin Madugu, and other members of the team’s technical crew following their failure at the just-concluded African Women’s Cup of Nations in Morocco.

Apart from failing to move beyond the quarterfinal stage, the Super Falcons, for the first time in the history of the Women’s World Cup, failed to qualify for the 2027 edition billed to hold in Brazil.

The Super Falcons’ loss to Cameroon in the quarterfinal of the AWCON and also fell to South Africa in the African playoff for the Brazil 2027 World Cup. The loss to South Africa effectively ended Nigeria’s bid to qualify for the Mundial.

The losses in Morocco, coupled with the Super Eagles’ failure to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, as well as all the junior men and women’s teams inability to qualify for their respective World Cup competitions recently prompted the Federal Government to look for a new leadership for the country’s football.

But in a bid to show that it feels the country’s pains, the NFF, yesterday, asked Madugu and members of his technical crew to step down with immediate effect.

The NFF announced the decision in a brief statement on its official X account.

It said: “The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has asked members of the technical crew of the @NGSuper_Falcons to step down with immediate effect.”

The NFF has yet to announce replacements for Madugu and the other members of the technical crew, but sources within the federation told The Guardian that there are plans to talk the former Super Falcons Coach, Randy Waldrum, into returning to the position.

Waldrum, who led the team to a credible outing at the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, resigned from his position due to what he described as an unfavourable working environment.

The National Sports Commission (NSC), which supervises the NFF, is yet to react to the latest development.