Governor Sanwo-Olu also hailed Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie for clinching the CAF Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year award and the Super Falcons for winning the Women’s National Team of the Year Prize.
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The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made Tinubu’s message public in a statement on Monday.
The Eagle Online recalls that the Super Falcons won the Women’s Female Team of the Year at the 2023 edition of the CAF Awards
Twenty-seven-year-old Lookman clinched the award at a ceremony at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech, Morocco on Monday
The Confederation of African Football has unveiled the Top 5 nominees in each of the men’s categories of the upcoming CAF Awards 2024.
Nine other players, including last year’s winner Sadio Mane, remain in contention for the Year’s award.
She warded off competition from Cameroonian Ajara Nchout Njoya and Zambia’s Grace Chanda to clinch her fifth title.
National team head coach Aliou Cisse was named Coach of the Year, after leading his team to their first continental title and another FIFA World Cup qualification.
Having finished as runner-up to the Egypt forward for the last two years, Mané becomes the second Senegalese to win the award after another Liverpool player, El Hadji-Diouf, in 2001 and 2002
A former Super Eagles attacking midfielder, Edema Fuludu, on Wednesday said the Confederation of African Football awards should be determined mainly by CAF organised competitions.
Egypt’s Mohamed Salah was voted Africa’s best player for a second successive year on Tuesday, etching his name among the continent’s all-time greats.
The capital of Ghana, Accra, is abuzz and bracing up for unarguably the biggest football gathering of the new year, Aiteo CAF Awards 2017.
The final shortlist for the awards features Liverpool duo of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane and Borussia Dortmund striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The pair face a 9,000-mile round trip this week to attend the Confederation of African Football awards bash in Accra, which takes place on Thursday evening.
So, when I stand on the stage this week to open the CAF Awards, the winners will be very clear to me before the awards have even been handed out: the true winners will be every young person who sees that event; sees that the eyes of the world are on Africa and that a future for each one of them exists in which they can go beyond their school, their hobbies, their parents, and truly embrace their potential
Until now the awards were sponsored telecommunications company, Globacom
Top on the list is the reigning African Footballer of the Year and Borussia Dortmund winger, Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is joined by Senegal and Liverpool midfielder, Sadio Mane, and Mohamed Salah of As Roma of Italy and Egypt. The remaining two players shortlisted are Algeria’s duo of Riyad Mahrez and Islam Slimani who both play for Leicester City of England