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Bayelsa Queens Start Rebuild After Losing NWFL Crown

By Kelechi / Training & Coaching / June 20, 2026

A goalless draw cost Bayelsa Queens their crown on the final day. Now the club has to rebuild before it even knows the full extent of who it’s rebuilding without. Bayelsa Queens head coach Ogbonda Whyte has confirmed the club has already begun planning for next season, with several members of the current squad expected

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Adepoju Says Osimhen Not Yet Ready to Captain Nigeria

By Kelechi / National Team News / June 20, 2026

Nigeria’s biggest goal threat in a generation isn’t the right man to wear the armband, according to a 1998 World Cup veteran who watched a sideline flare up at AFCON and didn’t like what he saw. Former Super Eagles midfielder Mutiu Adepoju has weighed in on the debate around Victor Osimhen’s suitability to captain Nigeria,

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Imuran Eyes WAFCON Spot After Super Falcons Recall

By Kelechi / Women's Football / June 20, 2026

She watched Nigeria lift a record 10th continental title from the outside. Now Rofiat Imuran wants back in, and her recall gives her a genuine shot at making it count. Super Falcons left-back Rofiat Imuran has set her sights on forcing her way back into Nigeria’s squad for the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations,

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Rivers United Raid Kun Khalifat for Three Key Players

By Kelechi / NPFL / June 20, 2026

Three players who helped keep Kun Khalifat in the NPFL are now heading to Port Harcourt, the first concrete sign of the recruitment drive Rivers United promised for their Champions League season. Rivers United have completed the signing of three players from Kun Khalifat, strengthening Finidi George’s squad ahead of a demanding 2026/27 campaign that

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NFF Charges Referees to Lift Standards After FIFA Course

By Kelechi / Governance / June 20, 2026

It has been nearly two decades since a Nigerian referee took charge of a match at the Africa Cup of Nations, and the federation’s latest training push is an attempt to finally close that gap. Nigerian football referees have been issued a direct charge to raise their domestic performance standards in order to improve their

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Iheanacho’s Celtic Future Clouded by Failed Vasco da Gama Bid

By Kelechi / Transfer News / June 20, 2026

A title and a cup double should be answering the question of where Kelechi Iheanacho plays his football next season. Instead, the silence from Celtic and a rejected approach from Brazil have only deepened the uncertainty. Kelechi Iheanacho’s future at Celtic is edging closer to an exit, just nine months after the Super Eagles striker

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Nigerian-Born Oluwaseyi Features in Canada’s World Cup Rout

By Kelechi / Nigerians Abroad / June 19, 2026

Nigeria isn’t at this World Cup, but a striker born in Abuja still found his way onto the pitch in Vancouver, wearing red and white and helping deliver a result Canadian football had waited decades for. Nigeria may have missed out on a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but the country’s football fingerprint

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Rivers United Plot Mass Foreign Signings for CAF Push

By Kelechi / Training & Coaching / June 19, 2026

Rivers United have a CAF Champions League ticket and a blunt diagnosis of why Nigerian clubs keep underperforming on the continent, and the club’s chairman wants government backing to do something about it. Rivers United chairman Barrister Chris Green has confirmed the club intends to recruit quality players from outside Nigeria as part of a

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Ikorodu City Lose Home Final as NFF Picks Asaba Venue

By Kelechi / Events & Tournaments / June 19, 2026

Ikorodu City spent the season turning a Lagos stadium into a fortress, and just as it mattered most, the federation decided the final wouldn’t be played there after all. Ikorodu City FC will not get the home advantage many inside the club had quietly been hoping for in this year’s President Federation Cup final, after

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Brighton Confirm Yohanna Will Skip Loan Move This Summer

By Kelechi / Nigerians Abroad / June 19, 2026

Eighteen years old, a record-breaking transfer fee already behind him, and now Brighton are betting that Zadok Yohanna is ready to skip the loan route entirely and go straight into Premier League pre-season. Brighton and Hove Albion have ruled out sending Zadok Yohanna out on loan this summer, confirming that the teenage Nigerian winger will

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