Author: Cranse Sports
Rivers United left Côte d’Ivoire with a 1–1 draw against FC San Pedro after recovering from a goal down in their CAF Champions League first-leg tie. The result keeps the contest level and moves the decisive leg back to Nigeria. The away test has been survived. Now Rivers must turn that platform into qualification.
Shooting Stars marked their return to African football after 27 years with a 1–0 victory over CS Sfaxien in Abeokuta. Lucky Emmanuel supplied the goal, but the advantage is narrow and the return leg moves to Tunisia against one of the CAF Confederation Cup’s most decorated clubs. The comeback has begun. Now 3SC must prove it can survive the road.
D’Tigress arrived in Berlin as African champions, world No. 8 and Olympic quarter-finalists. Two games later, Nigeria are already eliminated from World Cup progression. Korea scored 99 against them. Hungary then controlled the paint and won 71–67. Before France even arrives, Berlin has produced a harder question: what happened to Nigeria’s global momentum?
Nigeria’s Falconets open their U-20 Women’s World Cup campaign against Spain, facing an immediate test of structure, transition quality and late-game control.
Nigeria enter their World Cup opener against Korea carrying global ambition—and tactical lessons from a damaging 17-point defeat in March.
D’Tigress begin their 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup campaign against Korea on Friday carrying African dominance, Olympic pedigree — and unfinished business. Korea beat Nigeria 77–60 in qualifying only months ago. Now, with Hungary immediately behind them and France still to come, Nigeria’s opening game offers an early test of whether Africa’s champions are ready to break another global barrier.
Nigeria’s football reset has moved beyond the resignations of NFF President Ibrahim Gusau and other senior officials. An elective congress has been suspended, interim administration installed and FIFA, CAF, the NSC and NFF administration are discussing a comprehensive reform roadmap. The harder question is no longer who replaces the old leadership — but what system replaces it.
The Nigeria Football Federation has suspended all processes leading to its September 27 Elective Congress, with a fresh electoral process to begin after the wider reform of Nigerian football.
President Bola Tinubu has ordered a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football, targeting governance, administration, development pathways, domestic competitions and accountability.
Ibrahim Musa Gusau, Mohammed Sanusi and members of the NFF Executive Committee have resigned, opening a major transition as Nigerian football enters a reform process ordered by President Bola Tinubu.