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October 13, (THEWILL) – Nigeria's senior women's national football team, the Super Falcons of Nigeria, have moved up one spot in the most recent FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking in Thursday's issue released by the FIFA. The former African champions went from...

October 6, (THEWILL) - In the most recent FIFA World Rankings, Nigeria's Super Eagles dropped two spots to emerge as the 32nd country overall seeing the three-time African champions drop from being third in Africa and 30th in the...

October 2, (THEWILL) – Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has expressed his sympathies, following the death of at least 174 spectators in a stampede during an Indonesian Premier League (Liga 1) match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya,...

September 17, (THEWILL) – FIFA has extended the four-year suspension of Orji Okonkwo, a former junior international for Nigeria, for a doping offence from the Italian National Anti-Doping Tribunal, to a worldwide ban. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the...

September 08, (THEWILL) – Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the president of the Nigerian Football Federation and a member of the FIFA Council, has urged the front-runners in this month's NFF presidential election to undertake honourable, clean campaigns while running for...

June 16, (THEWILL) – On Thursday, world football governing body, FIFA, will reveal the 16 host cities for the 2026 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Mexico, the United States, and Canada. FIFA will organise the 48-team World Cup...

May 02, (THEWILL) - Due to crowd trouble during last month's 2022 World Cup play-offs, FIFA has slammed African champions, Senegal, with the penalty of playing one match behind closed doors. THEWILL recalls that fans also flashed laser pointers at...

May 02, (THEWILL) -  Following a pitch invasion after the Super Eagles' 1-1 tie with the Black Stars of Ghana in a 2022 World Cup playoff on March 29, the Nigeria Football Federation has been fined by FIFA. As THEWILL...

May 02, (THEWILL) - A FIFA delegation, on a trip to engage with sport and government stakeholders in the nine host cities of next year's FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, was in Sydney/Gadigal, the capital...

April 06, (THEWILL) – FIFA has once again snubbed Nigerian referees from officiating at the upcoming Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup set for November. FIFA settled for eight referees from the continent to join a pool of 36 referees, 63...