Nigeria’s Flamingos emerged champions of the 2026 WAFU B U-17 Girls Cup after a commanding 4-0 victory over Togo on Sunday.
Captain Harmony Chidi led the charge, converting two penalties in the first half to put Nigeria firmly in control.
Oluebube Umejiaku added a third goal in the 67th minute, while Oluwakemi Adegbuyi completed the rout with a late strike in the 90th minute.
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Akeem Busari’s side enjoyed a perfect campaign, winning all five matches, scoring 17 goals and conceding just two.
The Flamingos opened their campaign with a 5-0 victory over Niger Republic before defeating eternal rivals Ghana 4-2. They went on to beat Burkina Faso 2-0 and hosts Côte d’Ivoire 2-0 before sealing the title with Sunday’s emphatic win over Togo.
With the WAFU B title secured, the Flamingos will now turn their attention to the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Good win time to go back to Nigeria and work on finishing because against solid teams at the World Cup the chances will be few and must be converted. The team is full of stars and they must all work as a unit like Barca.
Adegbuyi had a great tournament.
Let’s hope she can get a good club so she can continue her development. Tremendous player.
This team is going to become a very good Falconets team, and some of them should even be gradually introduced into the Super Falcons.
Imagine having Flourish Sebastine and Adegbuyi as options for the Super Falcons left wing.
Akekoromowei, Chidi Harmony, Anastasia of Edo Queens as options in the attack.
The future is bright indeed!
There is indeed a stench of feel-good-factor permeating and polluting this Flamingoes team with the scents of excitement, fascination and indeed awe!
To navigate a whole Wafu Zone B tournament summa-cum-laude and unscathed is simply jaw dropping.
Not meaning to be arrogant but West Africa houses some of the best talents in underage women’s football. So, kudos to Busari’s Babes.
I didn’t follow the tournament religiously other than monitoring outcomes and watching highlights afterwards. And several individual talents par excellence have been mentioned by many an observer.
However the strength of this doesn’t seem to lie in individual talents but as a collective – the whole, as they say, is greater, far greater, than the sum of the individual parts.
You don’t overcome Ghana and Ivory Coast by sheer individual brilliance, nah! These worthy adversaries are downed by collective effort – I don’t need to have watched the matches to have worked the maths!
4:2 win against Ghana, 2:0 victory against Burkina Faso, 2:0 win against Ivory Coast all reveal the well oiled, well drilled, well tinkered machine that this Flamingoes outfit are.
After dominating the subcontinent, what is left now is for this team to dominate the world in November at the World Cup.
Or, am I asking for too much? Am I dreaming of cows in the sky? Or, put simply, am I simply deluded?
Me thinks not!
Until you hear NFF failed to process some of their visas in time just for some new strange faces to come disrupt the rhythm.