Peter Rufai
23 Apr 2022
I do not know the genesis of the nickname. I once asked him when we went out to shop together in a local market in the heart of Tunis during the 1994 African Cup of Nations championship.
15 Mar 2022
No less than 17 ex-internationals have been lined up to participate in a novelty football match to commemorate the 70th birthday anniversary of former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu. Umar Mohammed, Director-General of Tinubu Support Group (TSG), which is organising the event, disclosed this at the TSG Campaign Office in Abuja on Tuesday. He listed the…
14 Aug 2020
Former Super Eagles Goalkeepers’ Trainer, Ike Shorunmu, has attributed the poor quality of goalkeepers in the domestic league to Nigerian youngsters’ undue quest to move to Europe even before developing their skills.
4 May 2020
Former Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Ike Shorunmu, believes that if home-based players were exposed to modern technology trends and quality football facilities, the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) stars will compete favourably with their overseas-based counterparts in the national team.
9 Apr 2020
Former Super Eagles Coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, may have stoked a round of controversy when he picked former national team captain, Vincent Enyeama, as Nigeria’s best goalkeeper
8 Jun 2019
It was in the late night of June 7, 2016 that Nigeria’s longest serving national team captain, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi passed on.
6 Jun 2019
Super Eagles Former Goalkeeper, Peter Rufai believes Nigeria has quality goal minders to excel at the forthcoming African Nations Cup in Egypt.
20 May 2019
It was fanfare at the Agege Stadium, Lagos at the weekend when Nigerian football legends battled with their African counterparts in an exhibition game to bid farewell to Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode. Ambode, who is credited with building several sports facilities in Lagos State, will leave office later this month. The game featured on…
5 Oct 2018
Former Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Peter Rufai is worried that the managers of the senior national team has made inclusion in the squad an all comers affair...
13 Apr 2018
Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has disclosed that the national team is facing the challenge of getting a quality number one goalkeeper on time for the Russia 2018 World Cup because the team’s handlers over the years focused on a particular keeper without planning to discover and groom his successors.
6 Feb 2018
The European January transfer window may have been officially closed, but Africa’s first Sports Radio station, Brila FM, set another record with her latest signing.
28 Nov 2017
Dodo Mayana Soccer Thon, a football idea developed by former Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, was unveiled yesterday by the football icon following the approval by the Lagos State government for its commencement.
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