Archives Tag: Enyimba

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April 19, 2022

Actions continued on Matchday 21 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) as Abia Warriors beat eight-time league champions Enyimba 2-1 in the oriental derby held on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. A 30th-minute strike from Yakub Hammed gifted Abia Warriors the lead before Odoh Valentine made it 2-0 in the 38th minute. Enyimba would pull one … Continue reading NPFL Review: Abia Warriors Down Enyimba In Oriental Derby

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) newcomers Remo Stars continued their impressive run in the 2021/22 season after beating Plateau United 1-0 in Ikenne on Sunday, January 9, 2022, to move two points clear of second-placed Rivers United on the league log. Read more about Sports A brilliant header from Adedayo Olamilekan in the 56th … Continue reading NPFL Review: Remo Maintain Perfect Run As Enyimba Returns To Winning Ways

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigerian national women’s football team, the Super Falcons, qualified for the next round of the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations qualifiers despite suffering a 1-0 loss to the Black Queens of Ghana in Accra on Sunday, October 24, 2021. Read more about Sports A Princella Adubea 48th minute strike condemned the Nigerians to … Continue reading Weekend Sports Roundup: Emmanuel Dennis Scores For Watford

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Victor Osimhen returned to Napoli from the international break where he scored in Nigeria’s 2-0 victory over the Central African Republic, to gift his Italian club the winning goal in their 1-0 victory over Torino in the Serie A on Sunday, October 17. Read more about Sports The Super Eagles star was on from … Continue reading Weekend Sports RoundUp: Osimhen Scores For Napoli

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Retired Nigerian footballer, Finidi George, has been appointed as the head coach of the biggest Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Enyimba FC of Aba. The two-time CAF Champions League winners appointed the former Super Eagles star to replace Fatai Osho who led the Aba-based club to a second-place finish in the 2020/2021 NPFL … Continue reading Enyimba Appoints Finidi George As Head Coach

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigeria Professional Football League giants, Enyimba FC, have crashed out of the CAF Champions League despite a 2-1 win over their Sudanese opponents, Al Merreikh, in Aba on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Enyimba got eliminated in just the first round of the competition after losing 3-0 in Sudan in the first leg of the … Continue reading Enyimba Crash Out Of CAF Champions League While Rivers United Await CAF’s Verdict Over Confederations Cup Tie

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and prominent football stakeholders, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, reached a resolution to adopt the Points Per Game System (PPG), and end the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League campaign. Read more about NFF In a virtual meeting attended by the NFF led by President Amaju Melvin Pinnick, his two … Continue reading NFF Upholds Points Per Game System As League Season Ends Prematurely

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Enyimba FC of Aba star, Dayo Ojo, who was kidnapped alongside Abia Warriors’ Benjamin Iluyomade has regained his freedom. Both players regained their freedom on the night of Wednesday, March 25, 2020. It will be recalled that the Nigeria Professional Football League stars were kidnapped along the Benin-Owo Expressway on the eve of Sunday, March … Continue reading Abducted Nigerian Professional Football League Players Released

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigerian Professional Football League giants, Enugu Rangers on Sunday, January 26, 2020, ended Pyramids FC of Egypt winning streak in the CAF Confederations Cup after beating the Arabian side 1-0 in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to Sunday’s game, Pyramids had enjoyed a four games defeatless run which has left them top of the group, while Rangers … Continue reading CAFCC: Rangers End Pyramids Winning Streak, As Enyimba Ends In A Stalemate

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigerian league giants, Enyimba FC of Aba, have advanced to the next round of the CAF Champions League after overturning a 1-0 first-leg away defeat to Burkina Faso side, Rahimo. Enyimba entered the contest seeking nothing less than a two-goal advantage to triumph over the Burkinabe outfits after loosing by a lone goal in the … Continue reading Enyimba beat Rahimo to qualify for champions league next round

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Did You Know? SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigerian football clubs have been striving hard to etch their names on both national and continental levels. Consequently, the country’s clubs are beginning to gain global recognition, especially after their participation and representation in some international tournaments and friendlies. This is, however, only true for some clubs given that they are ‘bigger’ than others in … Continue reading Did You Know? Enyimba is Nigeria’s Most Successful Football Club

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

The 2018/2019 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season officially kicked off on Sunday, with four wins and two draws recorded. Seven-time NPFL champion, Enyimba FC, began their campaign with an assertive win over rivals MFM United, at the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba. Goals from Nelson Ogbonnaya and Abdulrahman Bashir, in the 13th and 54th minutes … Continue reading 2018/2019 NPFL: Enyimba, Pillars Record Win on Day 1

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Eyimba off to a great start against Djoliba in CAF Confederations Cup opener Nigeria’s sole club in the CAF Confederations Cup, Eyimba FC, had a great start with their group opener on Sunday as they defeated competition Djoliba 2-0 in an impressive 90 mins encounter. The first half of the game saw Djoliba prove why … Continue reading Weekend Highlights

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Eyimba FC Qualify For CAFCC Eyimba International Football Club on Sunday qualified for the group stage of the CAF confederations cup (CAFCC). Eyimba FC defeated Energie FC of Benin Republic 3-2 in the second leg of their CAFCC qualifying rounds game at the U.J Esuene Stadium Calabar. The Aba based team successfully held their own … Continue reading Weekend Highlights: 16-18 March, 2018

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Discover Nigeria

April 19, 2022

The city of Aba appears on maps as a built up space straddling the intersection of roads from Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, and Ikot Ekpene. That patch is, in fact, a bustling urban sprawl, one of Nigeria’s major commercial hubs, and home to over a million people. Aba is the economic heartbeat of Abia State … Continue reading Aba, South Eastern Nigeria’s Thriving Commercial Hub

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