2017 NPFL Match day 6 fixtures

Sunday, February 5

Kano Pillars               vs    ABS, Ilorin        
Shooting Stars          vs    Rivers United 
Niger Tornadoes      vs    Katsina United
IfeanyiUbah              vs    Enugu Rangers   
Lobi Stars                 vs    Wikki Tourists
Akwa United             vs    Remo Stars   
Nasarawa United      vs    Plateau United       
Abia Warriors           vs    Gombe United   
Sunshine Stars          vs    MFM, Lagos      
El-Kanemi Warriors  vs    Enyimba   

Leading scorers:

Stephen Odey        - MFM FC            4
Ajomu Chidebere   -Niger Tornadoes 3
Godwin Zaki          -Abia Warriors      3
Golbe Elisha         - Plateau United     3
Mfon Udoh           - Enyimba               3
Olatubosun Sikiru  -MFM FC            3
Victor Mbaoma      -Remo Stars         3
Mohammed Mohammed -ABS           3

           LEAGUE TABLE

Team              P    W    Pts
Plateau            5    4    13
MFM FC        5    3    10
ABS FC           5    3    10
Enyimba           5    3    10
Rivers Utd       5    2    9
Abia Warriors   5    2    7
Gombe Utd        5    2    7
Wikki Tourists  5    2    7
Lobi Stars         5    2    7
Enugu Rangers  5    1    6
Remo Stars       5    2    6
Kano Pillars      5    2    6
Katsina Utd       5    2    7
El-Kanemi          5    2    6
Sunshine Stars   5    2    6
Nasarawa Utd    5    1    5
Tornadoes           5    1    5
IfeanyiUbah        5    1    4
Shooting Stars    5    1    4
Akwa United       5    0    3



 

Nigeria retain ITF/CAT junior tennis title

Nigeria successfully defended the ITF/CAT West and Central Africa Junior Championships title which ended in Lome, Togo late last month.
 
The 12-man Nigerian team garnered 950 points at the 10-day tournament which featured 111
players from 11 countries.

The win reaffirms Nigeria’s status as the regional superpower as Mohammed Ubale-tutored team fights off strong challenge from Cote d’Ivoire to keep the regional title for six years running. Benin Republic and Cameroon finished third and fourth with 780 and 715 points respectively.
 
Cote d’Ivoire, who finished second on 800 points, had threatened to dethrone Nigeria after
Day 6 restricting the defending champions to one gold, one silver and one bronze, but Nigeria had a strong finish to post another memorable outing at the tournament which serves as qualifiers for the African Junior Championships billed for South Africa in March.

Aside from emerging the overall winners, Nigeria’s impressive display saw the boys’ team
bagged qualification for the Junior Davis Cup as well as the World Team Cup while the girls’ team also secured their place in the Junior Fed Cup. All the tournaments will hold later in the year and this is also the first time Nigeria will be qualifying for all the tournaments from a single competition.
 
Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF) president, Engineer Sani Ndanusa expressed delight at the performance of the players stating that the federation’s commitment to the development of the game particularly at junior level will be sustained with renewed vigour.

Nigeria’s title hope was almost slipping off with the injury sustained by Marylove Edward
which forced her to forfeit the girls’ 14 and under title to compatriot, Oyinlomo Quadri and more crucially, her withdrawal from the doubles which denied the country a significant number of points but the team still prove its superiority with half of its representatives securing their places in the AJC.

In addition to Oyinlomo and Marylove, the quartet of Michael Osewa, Michael Ayoola, Matthew Abamu and David Dawariye, who defeated Andre Sydina of Senegal to the last ticket in the boys’ 14 and under category, will be rubbing shoulders with qualifiers from other regions of the continents. It also means Nigeria has the highest number of qualifiers from the CAT Zone 2.
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Caption: Oyinlomo Quadri with the 14 and under title.
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2017 NPFL match day five results, scorers

*ABS, Ilorin      2 Shooting Stars  0
Mohammed Mohammed   (39th min)
Chukwuebuka Anaekwe (52nd min)

*Enyimba        2 Nasarawa United 1
Mfon Udoh     -Enyimba (13th min)
Adamu Hassan  -Nasarawa (56th min)
Mfon Udoh     -Enyimba  (66th min)

*Enugu Rangers  1 Niger Tornadoes 1
Godwin Aguda  (40th min)
Bolaji Adeyemo (+45 min)

*Gombe United   2 Sunshine Stars  0
Sanusi Sani (...min)
Manir Ubale (...min)

*Plateau United 2 Abia Warriors   1
Golbe Elisha  -Plateau United (5th min)
Godwin Zaki   -Abia Warriors  (34th min)
Philip Azango -Plateau United (43rd min)

*Remo Stars     2 El-Kanemi Warriors 0
Onuoha Chukwujekwu (2nd min)
Oche Salefu made   (50th min)

*Wikki Tourists 3 FC IfeanyiUbah   1
Prince Agrreh -IfeanyiUbah     (5th min)
Richard Johnson-Wikki Tourists (2 goals)
Idris Guda     -Wikki Tourists (......)

*Rivers United  0 Lobi Stars       0

*MFM, Lagos     1 Kano Pillars  0
Adebayo Waheed (67th minute)

*Kastina United 1 Akwa United     1
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2017 NPFL Match day five fixtures

Sunday, January 29, 2017

MFM FC      vs Kano Pillars
ABS FC        vs Shooting Stars
Rivers Utd      vs Lobi Stars 
Wikki Tourists  vs IfeanyiUbah
Rangers         vs Niger Tornadoes
Katsina Utd vs Akwa United 
Remo Stars  vs El-Kanemi Warriors
Enyimba       vs Nasarawa United
Plateau Utd   vs Abia Warriors
Gombe Utd   vs Sunshine Stars
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2017 NPFL match day four results, scorers

*Shooting Stars 1 MFM, Lagos 1
Sikiru Olatunbosun-MFM (38th min)
Adebayo Abayomi   -3SC (89th min)

*Sunshine Stars 1 Kano Pillars 0
Sunday Alimi (82nd min)

*Niger Tornadoes      2 Wikki Tourists  0
Chidiebere Ajoku (27th, 72nd min)

*Nasarawa Utd  3 Remo Stars   1
Abdulrahman Bashir-Nasarawa (14th min)
Abiodun Awoyemi-Remo Stars (64th min)
Douglas Achiv-Nasarawa
Emmanuel Makama-Nasarawa

*Lobi Stars    3 ABS, Ilorin  0
Kingsley Eduwo (2 goals)
Nwangwa Nyima

*El-Kanemi     1 Katsina United  0
Sunday Anthony (89th min)

*Gombe United  0 Plateau United 0

*Abia Warriors 0 Enyimba      0

*IfeanyiUbah   0 Rivers United 0

*Akwa United   0 Enugu Rangers 0

2017 NPFL Match day Four fixtures

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Shooting Stars            vs MFM, Lagos
Lobi Stars                  vs ABS, Ilorin
FC IfeanyiUbah        vs Rivers Utd
Niger Tornadoes       vs Wikki Tourists
Akwa United             vs Enugu Rangers
El-Kanemi Warriors vs Katsina Utd
Nasarawa Utd         vs Remo Stars
Abia Warriors         vs Enyimba
Gombe United        vs Plateau United
Sunshine Stars       vs Kano Pillars

NPFL Match Day three results, scorers, table

*Kano Pillars   2 Shooting Stars 1
Adigun Adewale -Shooting Stars (42nd min)
Adamu Mohammed -Pillars (47th, 90th min)

*MFM FC, Lagos 4 Lobi Stars 0
Stephen Odey   (27th, 59th, 63rd min)
Tchato Giscard (62nd min)

*ABS FC         1 FC IfeanyiUbah 0
Chigozirim Metu (17th min)

*Rivers United  1 Niger Tornadoes 0
Guy Kuemian (22nd min)

*Wikki Tourists 1 Akwa United 0
Harrison Madu (80th min)

*Enugu Rangers  1 El-Kanemi Warriors 0
Bobby Clement (72nd min)

*Katsina United 1 Nasarawa United 0
Suleman Musa (80th min)

*Remo Stars     1 Abia Warriors 0
Victor Mbaoma (90th min)

*Enyimba        2 Gombe United 0
Ibrahim Mustapha (65th min)
Mfon Udoh        (90th min)

*Plateau United 3 Sunshine Stars 1
Benjamin Turba -Plateau Utd (44th min)
Kabiru Umar    -Plateau Utd (70th min)
Emeka Umeh     -Plateau Utd (79th min)
Alaba Adeniyi  -Sunshine    (90th min)
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Table
                                             P     W   D   L   GF GA GD  PTS
1     Plateau United             3     3     0     0     8   3     5     9
2     ABS                             3     2     1     0     5   2     3     7
3     Rivers United             3     2     1     0     4   2     2     7
4     MFM                          3     2     0     1     7   4     3     6
5     Abia Warriors            3     2     0     1     4   2     2     6
6     Enyimba                     3     2     0     1     4   3     1     6
7     Kano Pillars              3     2     0     1     3   2     1     6
8     Katsina United          3     2     0     1     3   3     0     6
9     Enugu Rangers        3     1     1     1     3   3     0     4
10     Wikki Tourists       3     1     1     1     2   2     0     4
11     Ifeanyi Ubah          3     1     0     2     4   2     2     3
12     Shooting Stars      3     1     0     2     3   3     0     3
13     El-Kanemi             3     1     0     2     3   4     -1     3
13     Remo Stars          3     1     0     2     3   4     -1     3
15     Gombe United      3     1     0     2     3   5     -2     3
16     Sunshine Stars     3     1     0     2     2   4     -2     3
17     Lobi Stars            3     1     0     2     1   6     -5     3
18     Nasarawa Utd      3     0     2     1     1   2     -1     2
19     Akwa United        3     0     1     2     2   5     -3     1
20     Niger Tornadoes  3     0     1     2     1   5     -4     1

Caption: Stephen Odey of MFM FC, the first player to score a hat-trick this season in the NPFL. He is now leading the goal chart with four goals.