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Nigeria women football now going backward - Zira A top sports stakeholder and former chairman of Adamawa Queens, Mr. Emmanuel Zira, has said that women football development in Nigeria has drastically dwindled in the past few years. Mr. Zira who spoke in an interview from his base in Yola, Adamawa state capital said lack of professional approach, transparency and lacklustre attitude by the league administrators have under-developed Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) in particular and other aspects of the game. Recently, NWFL chairperson and a board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Aisha Falode had claimed that women football has witnessed developmental changes. But Zira while assessing the state of Nigeria women football in recent years said both its league and ot...

...Revered football stakeholders hail FG's intervention over NFF Elections     Most stakeholders in Nigeria's football circle have commended the federal government for intervening to avert another round of crisis looming ahead 2022 elections of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).   As it has been over the years, the country's football fraternity has always been deeped into protracted crisis before and after every election year.   To forestall the reoccurring incident, the federal government on June 17, through the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development wrote to the president of NFF, Amaju Pinnick, and directed him to ensure that the 2022 NFF election is held not later than the expiration of the tenure of the present board in September 20...

According to police, two women suffered "life-threatening" injuries in a skydiving accident in Wisconsin.   Authorities say two people were seriously injured while skydiving in Wisconsin on Sunday. Around 1:40 p.m., emergency responders were called to Skydive Midwest, a skydiving facility in the hamlet of Yorkville, according to the Racine County Sheriff's Office.   According to the sheriff's office, a 28-year-old lady from Racine and a 49-year-old woman from Chicago were tandem skydiving. Their parachute opened, but they lost control and landed approximately 20 or 30 feet from the earth which lead to the skydiving accident.   According to the sheriff's office, both ladies "received life-threatening injuries" and were evacuated to area trauma hospitals. &n...