Sports News of Saturday, 28 December 2024 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Nigeria defeated Ghana with a resounding win to qualify for the 2024 CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN). A strong first-half showing inspired the Super Eagles B to a dominant 3-1 victory in the second-leg match in Uyo on Saturday, December 28, 2024, ensuring their qualification for the 2024 CHAN tournament. The home team sealed the result within the first 27 minutes, scoring three goals against Ghana. Nigeria breached Ghana’s high defensive line to score the opening goal in the 17th minute and doubled their lead just three minutes later from a well-executed…
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Africa Sports News of Thursday, 28 November 2024 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Ahead of the draw of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, Gelson Fernandes, FIFA Director of Member Associations in charge of Africa, has reiterated that the expanded competition will provide a unique opportunity for the 32 participating teams including the African torchbearers. The draw for the tournament will take place on 5 December 2024 in Miami, USA, where the four African participants – Al Ahly (Egypt), Esperance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) and Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco) – will learn their fate. Fernandes, who doubles as the FIFA…
Africa Sports News of Friday, 13 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: bbc.com Morocco will host the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) for the third time in a row in 2026, with the qualifying path announced on Thursday. Thirty-eight countries have entered preliminaries for the tournament, four fewer than the number that began the process for the 2024 edition. Sides will play two rounds of home and away ties to decide which 11 teams will join the host nation at Wafcon 2026. The six highest-ranked countries – Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast – have each received a bye…
Africa Sports News of Friday, 13 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: bbc.com The men’s and women’s African footballer of the year will be crowned on Monday, with five and three players respectively vying for each award. Ademola Lookman leads the male contenders after impressing for Atalanta over the past 12 months. The 27-year-old forward played a key role in helping the Italian club win the first European trophy in their history last season. Former Ghana international Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has set aside traditional West African rivalries and is tipping the Nigerian to pick up the trophy. “I will support him to win because…
Africa Sports News of Tuesday, 17 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: Janet Nana Akua Amankwaa, Contributor In a bid to strengthen international relations and promote inclusivity among member federations, as well as enhance and promote football in Africa and beyond, football’s governing body, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), has opened its first-ever African permanent regional office in Rabat, Morocco. FIFA’s African office in Rabat, Morocco, is seen as a game-changer for African football as it will provide technical and administrative support to local federations and promote football development across the continent. An agreement was reached on Monday between FIFA President Gianni Infantino and…
Africa News of Saturday, 21 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: bbc.com Two men have been arrested in Zambia accused of being “witchdoctors” who had been tasked with trying to bewitch the president. The police said they had arrested Jasten Mabulesse Candunde and Leonard Phiri in the capital, Lusaka. “Their purported mission was to use charms to harm” President Hakainde Hichilema, said the police statement, released on Friday. Many people in the southern African country believe in – and live in fear of – witchcraft. The police said Mr Candunde and Mr Phiri were hired by Nelson Banda, the younger brother of MP…
BBC Pidgin of Friday, 27 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: BBC Nigeria goment don tok say di allegations wey di goment of Niger Republic sama dem no be true. Dis dey come afta one viral video wey dey circulate on social media show as di military leader of Niger Republic bin dey grant interview to one journalist. Di viral video show as General Abdourahamane Tchiani dey tok for Hausa language wia e accuse Nigeria of sabotaging dia pipeline near di towns of Dioundiou, Lido and Karakara, for di Dosso region. Niger don also claim say French sojas from France dey Nigeria already,…
Africa News of Friday, 20 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: bbc.com Kenyan business student Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by those campaigning for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with private firms. Recent Kenyan history is littered with stories of huge contracts that have resulted from corruption – and despite laws that are supposed to prevent this from happening, there are suspicions that it continues to take place. Thirty-year-old Mr Amenya, who is studying in France for an MBA, leaked details on social media of what he said was a proposed agreement between Kenya and the Adani…
Africa News of Friday, 27 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: bbc.com Nigeria has denied accusations from Niger’s military leader, Brig Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, of colluding with France to destabilise the junta-led nation. In a Christmas Day interview, Gen Tchiani accused France of allying with militant groups in the Lake Chad region to undermine Niger’s security, allegedly with Nigeria’s knowledge. “Nigerian authorities are not unaware of this underhanded move,” Gen Tchiani was quoted as saying by AFP. In response, Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, told BBC Hausa that the allegations were “baseless” and “false”. Mr Ribadu said Nigeria would never “sabotage Niger…
Africa News of Saturday, 28 December 2024 Disclaimer Source: edition.cnn.com At least 10 people were killed and several wounded when a Nigerian military fighter jet pursuing bandits in two villages mistakenly bombed civilians in the northwestern state of Sokoto on Wednesday, the state governor Ahmed Aliyu said. “The military jets were on their mission to eliminate criminal armed groups terrorizing the state, and mistakenly bombed innocent people of this community,” Aliyu said in a statement. Aliyu added that the state will collaborate with other authorities to investigate the military operation that killed people in the villages of Gidan Sama and Rintuwa…