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6 Jan 2017
Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has been referred to Egyptian prosecutors for investigation over allegedly abusing his position.
5 Jan 2017
Algeria forward Riyad Mahrez is favourite to be crowned African Footballer of the Year for 2016 on the back of his contribution to Leicester City's shock English Premier League title win.
21 Dec 2016
Former Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Amos Adamu, is facing another two-year ban from all football related matters ...
19 Dec 2016
Senegal on Sunday emerged champions of the African Football Confederation (CAF) Beach Soccer 2016 tournament after mauling hosts, Super Sand Eagles 8-4 ...
19 Dec 2016
The General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has endorsed its president, Amaju Pinnick’s quest to join the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football...
23 Nov 2016
As has been the case in recent years, no Nigerian is among the five players shortlisted for the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards, which list of nominees was released yesterday by the Confederation of Africam Football (CAF).
4 Nov 2016
The championship, which has the Super Falcons of Nigeria as defending champion, will run from November 19 to December 3 in the Cameroonian cities of Yaoundé and Limbe.
22 Oct 2016
The yearly ceremony for the award of Best African Footballer of the Year is upon us again.
19 Oct 2016
Former international, Mutiu Adepoju, has said that any of the players shortlisted for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Player of the year award for 2016, have equal chances the title.
3 Oct 2016
Confederation of African Football (CAF) presidents will be limited to three four-year terms with effect from the 2017 elections, the organisation confirmed Monday.
23 Sep 2016
President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has said that there is ‘nothing strained’ in the relationship between him and CAF President, Issa Hayatou.
17 Sep 2016
UEFA have just elected a young East European from Slovenia as its president. Africa can take a cue from this and halt its own one-man-in-perpetuity presidency. The same man has been president of CAF since even before I was ‘born’.
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