The Match Day 24 NPFL fixture was played at the Lekan Salami Sports Complex in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
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Odigie, whose team drew 1-1 at home to Akwa United FC of Uyo on Wednesday in a Group A match day 11 fixture, said the schedule was not helping him.
Top of the roll is Akwa United FC first choice goalkeeper Adeyinka Adewale, who was in the Super Eagles A squad for the international friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador in the United States of America earlier in the summer, as well as the two Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Sierra Leone and Sao Tome and Principe in the month of June.
Friday Ubong scored a late winner as he unleashed a powerful shot four minutes from the end of regulation time to hand the Promise Keepers a crucial advantage going into the second leg next week.
According to a release on the club’s official Facebook page, the new players include forwards; Ezekiel Bassey who joined from Qanah SC of Egypt, Wasiu Alalade from Kwara United, Isaac George from Dakkada FC and Onovo David from Sokoto United.
The Chairman of the club, Paul Bassey, who made this known to journalists in Uyo on Thursday, said the players would be made to undergo sessions on the club’s code of conduct.
The Championship Playoffs for the 2018/2019 Nigeria Professional Football League ends on Wednesday at the Agege Stadium in Lagos with a tricky but fitting finale.
A Nigerian carrier, Dana Air, has extended its multi-million naira sponsorship deal with Uyo-based Akwa United FC of Akwa Ibom for the 2018/19 Nigeria Premier League season.
The tension soaked encounter saw the two teams making frantic efforts to get the opener but none was able to break each other’s defence.
The Promise Keepers relentlessly raided the visitors’ area, restricting them in their own half but missed several scoring chances before the visitors stunned the home fans by scoring first.
NAN reports that Akwa United will host Banjul Hawks FC in the first leg fixtures of the CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium on Sunday.
Speaking in Umuahia, Deutcsh said Nigeria is large to be covered by road as many clubs do not have the financial capacity to fly their teams to match venues
Maikaba told the News Agency of Nigeria that the team would work in synergy with other clubs to achieve success.
The team won the trophy against a determined Niger Tornadoes side in a penalty shootout after ending the game goalless during regulation time.
For the umpteenth time, change was effected in the name of the oldest competition in the land in June this year when Nigeria’s leading energy solutions company, AITEO Group, signed a multi-million naira partnership agreement with the Nigeria Football Federation to take over a championship that had been known as Governor’s Cup, Challenge Cup, FA Cup and Federation Cup in its 72-year history.
The Owena Whales thought they had clinched a place in the grand finale when Franklin Sasere scored to make it 2-1, meaning they would go through on the away goals’ rule. But Super Eagles’ midfielder Ifeanyi Ifeanyi netted a third that took the hosts into next Sunday’s final in Lagos.
Presenting cheques to the club members, the Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Monday Uko, thanked the governor for redeeming the pledge in spite of the financial difficulties the state was passing through.
The Oluyole Warriors are waiting anxiously on the League Management Company to take a decision on the Gombe United/Wikki Tourists Matchday 38 clash in Gombe last Saturday to know their fate in the Nigeria Professional Football League.
And it was former youth international, King Osanga, who emerged hero on the night with an extraordinary slice of a free kick two minutes after the break that handed the home side all three points on offer.
Rangers have therefore joined the teams that will enter the pot for Friday’s draw for the Round of 32 games during the Sports Tonight programme of Channels Television