In Nigeria, football is more than just a sport. Bars overfill with excited fans at match time, and conversations about goals, penalties and scores continue online long after the referee has blown ...

Nigerian league football revenue helps pull game in right direction. Colin Udoh, Special to ESPN Feb 16, 2016, 09:02 PM ET. Close. Itinerant writer. Engineer in a previous incarnation.

As the curtains gradually fall on the 2024/2025 football season in Nigeria, it is necessary to highlight how the clubs in the different divisions of the league spend so much to execute matches ...

Arguably, the most successful football club in the history of Nigerian football is Enyimba FC. The Aba-based club has won the Nigerian Premier League more times than any other club (9 times).

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that any referee caught manipulating or fixing local league matches will face arrest and prosecution.

The resumption of Nigeria's domestic league has been postponed indefinitely amid a leadership crisis currently rocking the country's football. Chris Giwa, founder of a rival faction in the ...

Nigeria's national teams are amongst those now shut down The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has suspended its football league for four weeks after the number of confirmed cases in the country ...

He said: "It is fair to say that Nigerian football is not where we would like it to be, but we are confident that given a proper enabling environment we can get it to the level that we want it to be.

Nigeria's football captain Mikel John Obi told Newsweek that his Olympic bronze medal ranks as highly as winning the Champions League or English Premier League with London club Chelsea. Obi and ...