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World football governing body, FIFA, has approved another elite programme for Nigeria. This approval came after the body was satisfied with the various capacity –enhancing programmes of the present administration of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, led by Amaju Melvin Pinnick, particularly for...

FIFA’s head of Auditing and Compliance, Domenico Scala, on Saturday resigned in protest at reforms at the world football ruling body. Scala was angry the newly-created FIFA Council would have the ability to appoint and sack those in charge of its committees, including Auditing, Ethics and...

Senegal's Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura has been appointed as Fifa's first female secretary general. She succeeds former secretary general Jerome Valcke, who was banned from football-related activity for 12 years. Samoura, 54, spent 21 years working for the United Nations and will start at...

Sunderland defender Emmanuel Eboue has been banned from all football by Fifa for one year or until he pays money owed to a former agent. The former Arsenal full-back, who joined Sunderland on a free transfer on 9 March, was first ordered to pay the undisclosed amount in July 2013. Eboue was...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino expressed shock and sadness on Saturday at a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a local football tournament in Iraq, killing 41 people with over 100 injured. “I’m shocked and terribly saddened to have learnt about the awful tragedy which...

FIFA has launched a legal battle to claim more than £100 million from corrupt officials and admitted for the first time that South Africa paid bribes for votes for the 2010 World Cup. In a legal submission to US authorities, they have openly accused South Africa of paying a US$10 million bribe...

Jérôme Valcke, the suspended secretary general of Fifa and Sepp Blatter’s long-time associate, has been sacked with immediate effect, theGuardian reports. Valcke has been suspended since 17 September, but a meeting of Fifa’s emergency committee has now decided to dismiss him from the...

Here are the list of great players in history who became coaches at different clubs after their football career. Plenty all-time greats on the field have tried their luck in the dugout, with varying degrees of success. AFP Sport takes a look at some of those who have made the transition...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter and his Uefa counterpart Michel Platini have both been banned from all football-related activity for eight years with immediate effect, the Independent Ethics Committee of world football's governing body has confirmed. The duo have been under a 90-day suspension...

UEFA president, Michel Platini,on Friday failed in his bid to have his 90-day provisional ban from football activity lifted, the BBC reports. Platini, 60, was suspended with FIFA president Sepp Blatter in October while corruption claims are investigated. The duo denied any wrongdoing. They...

Nigeria will continue their quest for a place in the 2018 FIFA World Cup as they host Swaziland in Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt this afternoon. Here are some facts about Swaziland team: 1. The Swaziland national football team has never qualified for the World Cup finals. 2...

FIFA on Thursday approved five candidates to stand in February’s vote to replace Sepp Blatter as president of world football’s governing body, but Michel Platini has not yet made the list. The five who met the qualifications following a series of integrity tests were: Prince Ali Al Hussein...

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Friday lauded the indomitable spirit displayed so far by the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria at the on-going FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Chile, after they defeated their Mexican counterparts 4-2 , to qualify for the finals of the tournament...

World Football Governing body, FIFA have disclosed that it is launching a global football development plan for young players to fulfill their potential in their football career. The project is meant to foster youth domestic leagues in African countries with a pilot project kicking off in...

FIFA’s member associations have proposed, in due time and form, seven candidates for the presidential election to take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26 February 2016 and submitted to the Electoral committee. Here are names of those that made the list submitted to the...

Suspended FIFA President, Joseph Blatter, has accused the FA's Ethics Committee for not following through with due process before putting him on hold from all football activities for 90 days. The Swiss, through his personal lawyer claimed the committee failed to allow him present evidence...

The Nigeria Football Federation have Chosen Stade Du Tondreau de Mons and Stade Van Roy De Denderleeuw as the venues for Super Eagles friendly games against Congo and Cameroon in October. The first game, scheduled for 8th of October will be against Congo while three days later, Nigeria will...