Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has highlighted the importance of motivation to players as he argued that hiring foreign coaches would add little or nothing to African teams. Keshi, who featured in the symposium for the analysis of the 2012 and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cairo, Egypt, said the domestic league players are on the same level of development as the abroad based ones. The former Nige ...

Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike has promised to give the Super Eagles  $50,000  if Nigeria qualify for  the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The  2013 Africa Cup of Nations Golden Boot winner, who is out of next month’s World Cup qualifiers against  Kenya and Namibia due to  a fresh  injury, believes  the money will  boost the team. “I promise the whole team $50,000 if they qualify for  Brazil 2014,”  the Eagles ...

The Confederation of African Football has selected five members of the Super Eagles for the Best Eleven after Nigeria defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 on Sunday to lift the Nations Cup title for the third time. Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, defender Efe Ambrose, midfielder Mikel Obi and forwards Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike were selected to complete a team which also has Cape Verde Island’s Nando Maria Neves, M ...

Historic Super Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi has dedicated Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations triumph to all indigenous Nigerian coaches, who were treated with lack of respect by sports administrators and fans. Speaking after the Eagles defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in the final of the tournament last night, Keshi said that he was fulfilled that his dream of putting smiles on the faces of Nigerians had come true with ...

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sent his congratulatory message to the Super Eagles, saying the amazing metamorphosis from rank outsiders to champions was a an eloquent testimony that Nigerians can achieve greater successes in other fields of human effort if they unite devotedly and  collectively in supporting his transformation agenda. “President Jonathan believes that the team’s amazing transformati ...

Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has congratulated Nigerians over the victory of the Super Eagles at the last African Cup of Nations held in South Africa. Tambuwal also disclosed that the House of Representatives will host the victorious Super Eagles during its plenary. In a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, Tambuwal descri ...

Keshi disclosed on Sunday in Abuja that he will not miss the presence of any player who didn't make the list for the 2013 AFCON. ...

It has been revealed that the Super Eagles of Nigeria have been paid winning bonus for their World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers draw in Malawi, Rwanda and Liberia. ...

Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi was not a happy man after his team’s 2-2 draw with the Lone Stars of Liberia in a 2013 Africa Nations Cup qualifier against the host team in Monrovia on Saturday ...

Nigeria’s Super Eagles were yesterday held to a goalless draw by the Menas or Gazelles of Niger Republic in an international friendly as a prelude to the crucial Nations Cup qualifiers coming up next month. ...

The Super Eagles of Nigeria were defeated by the Pharaohs of Egypt in a keenly contested game in the United Arab Emirates which ended 3-2. Nigeria it was with a 13th minute opener by Sunday Mba with close range goal after a pass by striker Uche Kalu and by the 25th minute it was 1-1 after Egyptian midfielder Ahmed Temsah’s shot was deflected by a defender into the net. ...

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has released the list of players that will participate in Thursday's friendly match against the Pharaohs of Egypt. Keshi has insisted on using the home-based players in camp for the encounter, which is being used to prepare the team for the second leg of the 2013 Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda. ...

Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi, has handed Yakubu Aiyegbeni and Sani Kaita recalls to the Super Eagles for the 2013 Afcon qualifying against Rwanda. Yakubu and Kaita are among 11 foreign-based players named in the side to face the Amavubi of Rwanda on February 29 in Kigali. ...

Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi has said he does not want to be compared with his Zambian counterpart, Herve Renard. Renard on Sunday led the Chipolopolo of Zambia to their first Africa Cup of Nations title, and Keshi does want to be put in direct comparison with the Frenchman or his achievement. ...

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has announced that the friendly match against Angola will be played in Abuja as opposed to an earlier decision to play it in Benin Republic due to the Nationwide protests. The match will be played on Wednesday, January 11 and the Angolans are expected to arrive in the country on Tuesday. ...

The Super Eagles could not find the net despite dominating possession in the friendly international played at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City yesterday evening in what was coach Stephen Keshi’s first game in charge. An enthusiastic crowd turned up to cheer the Super Eagles to victory but were left disappointed as the resolute, well-coordinated Zebras held their own in defence to ward off the hosts' attack. ...

Former Super Eagles captain, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has appointed as the new Head Coach of the Super Eagles. The 49-year-old captained the national side when it won the African Nations Cup in 1994. He was also led the team to its first ever world cup appearance in USA in the same year. He's had some coaching experiences in the past having handled national teams of West African countries, Mali and Togo. ...

Highly rated Belgian coach, Tom Saintfiet, who transformed Ethiopia within a few months, has expressed interest in the vacant Super Eagles job. Saintfiet told MTNFootball.com that the Super Eagles job was in the continent. ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has sacked national team coach Samson Siasia as a result of Super Eagles' failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations that will take place in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea next January. Siasia spent less than a year on the job where he seemed to have breathed new life into the team with some eye-catching attacking play, but failed when it mattered most as Guinea drew 2-2 with the Super Eagles in Abuja to snatch the group's Afcon ticket on the final matchday. ...

Embattled Super Eagles' head coach, Samson Siasia has insinuated that he would rather leave the job than accept a pay cut.Siasia currently earns N5 million per month as Nigeria manager. Following the failure of the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nation there have been talks of slashing his monthly pay by at least 50 per cent. ...