Morocco
19 Mar
Finidi George will take charge of the Super Eagles in their two international friendly games against Ghana and Mali. This was confirmed on the Super Eagles' X handle on Tuesday. In a photo posted on the handle, Finidi was seen having a discussion with officials of the team. The former Nigeria international was assistant to…
19 Mar
Victor Osimhen will miss Nigeria's Super Eagles' two friendly games against Black Stars of Ghana and Eagles of Mali due to injury. Osimhen was an unused substitute for Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Inter Milan at San Siro and barely trained in the days before the match. According to Napoli coach, Francesco Calzona, Osimhen's absence was…
20 Feb
The draw for the preliminary round of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted by Morocco will hold this afternoon in Cairo, Egypt.
22 Jan
The 2024 Africa Cup of Nations has taken center stage, with Ivory Coast playing host to the continent's most prestigious football tournament. While Morocco and Senegal dominate the bookmakers' predictions as favourites, the Ivory Coast team has emerged as a dark horse, ready to defy expectations and make a serious bid for the championship.
21 Jan
The past one week has given the football world a deep insight into the emerging forces in African football with such hitherto unheralded countries like Equatorial Guinea and Cape Verde rubbing shoulders with and even confounding some of the giants of the continent’s game.
9 Jan
Nigeria men’s para-volleyball national team will face Egypt, Morocco, and Kenya in group A of the African qualifiers for a place at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
3 Jan
A joint security operation between elements of the Sûreté Nationale and Customs at the El Guergarat border post, south of the town of Dakhla, resulted in the seizure of 362 kg and 950 grams of cocaine destined for Morocco from abroad.
13 Dec
The Algerian coastguard has arrested three Moroccan nationals who crossed its western maritime border on a jet ski, Algeria's defence ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that the individuals were arrested "after entering our territorial waters on a jet ski, approximately seven nautical miles off Marsa Ben M'hidi beach" on Monday. The…
23 Nov
Eighty-three Nigerian scholars have departed the country for Morocco under the Bilateral Education Agreement of the Federal Ministry of Education.
10 Nov
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Chief Executive Officer of Metro Capital Advisory Group, Faruk Saleh, yesterday, courted the attention of the global investment market, saying Nigeria offers rare business opportunities despite odds.
20 Oct 2023
The Nigerian ambassador to Morocco, Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, also known as Magajin Garin Zazzau, has died at the age of 42.
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