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Nigeria Nationwide League One (NLO1) outfit, Best Talent FC of Mowe, today, Tuesday, 2nd December, 2025 defeated Team 360 Football Club 2-1 in a pre- season friendly match held at Legacy Pitch, Surulere, National Stadium, Lagos. The Ogun state Football giant under the tutelage of Coach Farouk Yusuf, started the game with high intensity and knock off their opponents beyond rhetoric right from the early minutes.  Known as a team that’s producing young and talented players in Nigeria, two of the young and exciting forwards, Best Talent Football Maestro,  and Fehintola Abiola and Odubiyi Joseph netted the opposing sides and condemned their hosts to a helpless situation in front of their fans. Team 360 FC pulled one back as a consolatory gift to make the result stood 2-1 in favour of Adeyinka Adeyemo’s boys. Having worked with Magate FC, Fackson Tofido, Coca-Cola Junior school and other club sides with different laurels, the grassroot exponent, Farouk Yusuf ...

 Nationwide League one outfit, Best Talent Football Club of Mowe shared spoils with SC Raven on Friday, 28 November, 2025 maintaining their impressive run at Redemption City Temple Arena, Mowe, Ogun State. After an artistically technical opening half hour where both sides struggled to find the breakthrough, Joseph broke the deadlock for the homers at 34 minutes with a composed side-foot finish that left the SC Raven defense flat-footed. In a bid to check other possible options with different set of players gave rise to insurgency from the opposing sides with Raven equalising 6 minutes to the stoppage time, thus, capitalised on a sleepy blunder of the Integrity outfit.  The statistics therefore reflected Best Talent dominance, with 63% possession, 18 shots (7 on target), and 11 corners compared to SC Raven FC 5 shots (1 on target) and 5 corners. Both teams finished without any dismissals, though the match saw a combined few yellow cards. The spoils solidifies Adeyin...

Following his award of questionable penalty in an NNL match involving Rovers Football Club C of Calabar and Ekiti United at the UJ. Esuene Stadium Calabar, the NFF Referring Committee has stepped down indefinitely Nyah Victor of Akwa Ibom State Referring Council from all league matches and other matches. In a letter to that effect signed by the Committee's Chairman Mohammed Ameenu and sent to him through the Akwa Ibom State FA and copied to the President of NFF, the Secretary General and the NNL Chairman, the committee noted that the unjustified penalty was not in line with the provisions of the Laws of the Game. "Our investigation discovered that you awarded an unjustified penalty in the match between Rovers FC and Ekiti United. Your action did not only negatively affect the outcome of the match but equally brings the game to disrepute. " In view of this, you have been indefinitely stepped down from all league matches and other matches", concludes the st...

The Technical/Assistant,   Broadcast Media, FIRS Arabinrin Aderonke Atoyebi has advocated appointing technocrats to run the country's sports; saying that's the only solution to the dwindling fortune of the sector. She made her opinion known during the just concluded maiden Big Sports Dialogue 0.1, held on Monday November, 24 at the Villa Doom, Ikoyi, Lagos. Photo : Atoyebi ( 2nd left in glasses) in a group photograph with other members of her panel Atoyebi who was one of the panelists at the event that attracted sports administrators, key stakeholders and media practitioners to brainstorm on the dwindling form of the country's sports, identified lack of technocrats at the helm of affairs and poor infrastructure as the main problem confronting the sector , noting that once these issues are critically addressed, things will take it's normal shape. " I have said it on many occasions , that not until such a time technocrats are appointed to run all the spor...

Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) Sporting Director, Tobi Adepoju Samuel has been reprimanded by the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) for making false and disparaging social media posts against the person and office of the NPFL Chairman, Otunba Gbenga Elegbeleye. In a post on the microblogging platform X, Tobi claimed that Elegbeleye as the NPFL Chairman approved stadiums with poor playing pitches for matches of the top league. He further claimed that the club players have been injured as a result of playing on poor pitches. In a letter of reprimand, Davidson Owumi, the Chief Operating Officer of the NPFL, chided Tobi for peddling wrong information capable of conveying the wrong perception of the person of the Chairman and the league itself. Owumi wrote, "Our attention has been drawn to a false claim you made on the microblogging platform known as X in which you maliciously accused the Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Otunba Gben...

The attention of Enyimba Football Club has been drawn to a misleading report currently circulating, alleging that the club has slashed the salaries of its players by 50% following the home defeat to Wikki Tourist FC. Enyimba FC wishes to categorically state that at no time did the management approve, initiate, or implement any salary reduction. The club remains fully committed to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism in its relationship with players and staff. This report is purely a figment of the writer’s imagination and should be disregarded by the general public. As a professional club, Enyimba FC communicates all official decisions and updates exclusively through its verified channels. The club expresses concern that such false information emanated from a supposedly reputable media organization/personnel without any attempt to verify the claims from the club’s official platforms or through its management or media team. Enyimba FC, while upholding its lon...