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NCF Announces Final Squad List For Kwibuka Women’s Int. Tournament In Rwanda

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2 years ago

June 8, 2023

Joel Ajayi

The Nigeria Women’s team AKA Female Yellow Greens is set to leave the shores of the country on the 9th of June 2023 to participate in the 9th edition of the Kwibuka International Women’s tournament in Kigali Rwanda.

The team which will be making their 4th appearance in the tournament will look to continue their fine form in the tournament on the backdrop of the heroics in Nigeria where they were crowned Champions of the NCF Women’s international tournament earlier this year in Lagos.

Over the last 3 weeks, the ladies have been camped in Edo State at the high performance center where they have been put through their paces in preparation for the tournament. 18 players were invited to camp and after a regime of batting, bowling and fielding drills coupled with series of friendly matches, a final 14 squad list have been announced.

Longest serving and most experienced player Blessing Etim will lead the team as captain to be assisted by Favour Esiegbe as Vice Captain. Other familiar names include Salome Sunday, Lucky Piety, Rachael Samson, Agatha Uadiale to mention a few.

Oseyande Omokhiobhio and Omonye Asika return to the team after missing out during the Lagos tournament in March while bowling sensation Lillian Ude will not be on the flight to Kigali due to Academic responsibilities at this moment.

The list includes; Blessing Etim (Captain), Favour Eseigbe (V.Captain), Esther Sandy, Salome Sunday, Lucky Piety, Agatha Obulor, Omonye Asika, Oseyande Omonkhobhio, Adekunle Adeshola, Abigail Igbobie, Sarah Etim, Rukayat Abdulrasaq, Racheal Samson and Peculier Agboya.

Nigeria will battle against Uganda, Kenya, Botswana and host Rwanda in the tournament scheduled to take place from the 10th – 18th of June 2023.

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Nigeria Flag National Team heads for historic African Championship in Egypt

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8 hours ago

June 17, 2025

The Gleamer

….Unveils its competition apparel to the National Sports Commission

Joel Ajayi

The Nigerian American Football Association ( NAFA ) has unveiled its competition apparel to the National Sports Commission, NSC, as it gets set to depart for the inaugural IFAF Africa Flag Football continental Games in Egypt billed for the 20-21 of June 2025.

In a brief but significant ceremony, the President of NAFA, Babajide Akeredolu, unveiled the jerseys the team will be using in Egypt to the Director General of the NSC, Hon Bukola Olopade on Tuesday, as the DG charged the team to do the country proud and return with flying colours.

“On this trip to Egypt I wish you guys well and I am more encouraged that you guys are very confident that our women team will win Gold. I am also very fascinated that you are taking U13 to this tournament.It’s inline with the Commission’s renewed hope vision to also start building for the future”.

“I must also thank you and your team for the kind of aggressive publicity and glamour you are creating around flag football in Nigeria and I believe there is a realistic possibility of a synergy being created that will glue NAFA and Showtimes together in order to have a robust league round the country.If this can eventually happen and you guys come together, this Sport will take Nigeria by storm, I have no doubt”, he concluded.

President and founder of NAFA, Babajide Akeredolu explained the significance of the tournament and the readiness of the Nigerian team to make history in Egypt.

” Since flag Sports became an Olympic Sport, there was a strong push to have a continental games so that Africa is better represented on the global stage.All African countries then came together with interface with the global body and now we have our first African games”.

” We came here to unveil our jersey to the DG and tell him that we are fielding three teams for the competition- the main team which has been in camp for two months now, a female team and an U13 team”.

He added that ” We are quite optimistic and we believe that with the support and activities of many leagues in Nigeria like the Abuja Flag football league, the showtime, the Community flag football league and the Ogun flag football league, we have a lot of players that can give us a formidable National team”.

Nigeria is billed to compete alongside traditional Sporting countries like Morocco,Tunisia, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana Uganda and host country Egypt, when the tournament holds this weekend.

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