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The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has asked the Super Falcons coaching crew led by Justine Madugu to step down, completesports.com reports.
This was made known by the NFF in a statement on their official X handle today (Monday).
“The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has asked members of the technical crew of the @NGSuper_Falcons to step down with immediate effect,” the football body wrote.
How Poor WAFCON Outing Cost Madugu Super Falcons Job
The decision to ask Madugu and his coaching crew to step down may not be unconnected to the Super Falcons’ poor outing at the just concluded Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco.
For the first time the Super Falcons failed to reach the semifinals of the WAFCON, as they lost 1-0 to eventual champions Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in the quarterfinals.
The defeat saw the Super Falcons miss out on automatic qualification to the 2027 FIFA women’s World Cup in Brazil.
Despite the disappointment of missing out on automatic qualification, the 10-time WAFCON champions had the chance to reach the World Cup via the play-in, but lost 2-1 to South Africa who, alongside Ghana, will feature at the Intercontinental playoffs.
Also Read: WAFCON 2026: Madugu Apologises For Super Falcons’ Poor Outing, Unfazed By Sack Threat
The defeat to South Africa means the Super Falcons will miss the World Cup for the first time since making their debut at the maiden edition in 991 in China.
NFF Sets Up Fact-Finding Committee To Probe National Teams Recent Failures
Following the team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup, the NFF immediately set up a fact-finding committee to investigate the country’s recent poor performances in international competitions, with particular focus on the Super Falcons.
Announcing the committee on its X handle, the NFF said it would probe the setbacks suffered by Nigeria’s national teams and recommend measures to prevent a recurrence.
According to the federation, the committee will “investigate the setbacks and make recommendations” on the way forward for Nigerian football.
The NFF said the move was necessary to “identify the factors responsible for the recent poor performances” and develop appropriate recommendations to improve the fortunes of the national teams.
The members include former Golden Eaglets coach Ambassador Fanny Amun, MON, who will chair the committee, former Flying Eagles coach Ladan Bosso, former Super Falcons captain Desire Oparanozie, former Super Eagles midfielder Mutiu Adepoju and Dr Alex Mana.
By James Agberebi
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NFF should also step down and Nigerians does not recognize Ladan Bosso who has been leading the coaches of this nation for years into endless slum.
Why Nigerians, both in sports and politics, don’t voluntarily resign after a scandal or disastrous outing, as they do in the Western world, is a mystery.
So Madugu was hoping to still lead this team in the Olympics qualifiers?? He had to be told to resign or risk being outrightly sacked, rather than doing the honorable thing in the first instance and still retaining some respect.
But Gusau and his goons should lead by example and tender their own resignation too, or announce he won’t be contesting for re-election as FA chair in September.
What fact finding commitee when they know ot is their incompetence that led us to where we are today
I am no longer seeing his 4+4 continuity poster.
That time wasting committee secretary that told government to do their worst fit don dey tender e own resignation letter lol.
Madugu get mind sha
E be wan stay bench against comoros when he lost 3 of his last 5 matches with falcons and two were most chastening: quarter finals and playoffs.
He wanted to pretend again to call foreign born players to bench again in 6 weeks when he doesn’t have one legacy player.
Let him go and coach outside Nigeria since he’s still latest balon dor nominee.
Very fitting time to have Ashleigh Plumptre training again when …
Hehehehehe….best coach in Africa…….LMAOoo. Balon d’Or nominee who defeated Zambia’s white coach 2 times in 1 year…….LMAOooo. What an enviable CV. Anyone with such a CV shouldn’t find it hard to get a job outside Nigeria.
He should go and coach countries that do not have players who would even make a SF 30-woman squad on a good day; let’s see if he would even qualify them for WAFCON in the first place with his 1983-style police football, let alone competing at any stage of the competition. The man never won jack-shit in the domestic league and rode on Waldrum’s completed project and players’ determination to the 2024 WAFCON glory
Benin Republic and Togo are next door. Balon dor nominee should go and prove to us he’s not the flash-in-the-pan, superstar-power-reliant impostor he is.
When it was 1 team representing Africa at the World Cup, we were regulars.
2, 3, 4……..we were still part of the regulars. We held the enviable record of being one of 2 or 3 teams to have participated in every edition of the WWC. Under Sergeant Madugu, even with Africa presenting 6, we wouldn’t be there…….despite packing a squad consisting of 95% foreign-based players.
There indeed is no medicine for incompetence.
Nonsense move what about his oga @ibrahim musa gusau, what’s him still doing there, they have nothing i mean nothing to offer Nigerian football,we need a no nonsense former player who knows what football is about,I don’t mean those shameless former players oo, i think this where we can start putting things in order, though that coach is bad really, but he have to go with his master
This pipo funny die.
They are asking a coach they are owing to step down. Hahahahaha!
Chronic debtors dey spread shoulder.
After sacking him, NFF president and his board also need to step down. If they don’t like the expression “step down”, no problem. They can “step aside”.
Why is it so difficult for these NFF pipo to resign after monumental, colossal failure? Why?
Ask them oo
What exactly is the essence of appointing a local assistant to every expatriate coach simply to satisfy some artificial “local content” requirement? If the argument is that these assistants are being groomed as eventual successors, then they should be properly trained, tactically qualified and genuinely ready for the responsibility, not merely occupying a seat on the technical bench because the NFF wants to tick the local-content box.
We have now seen the consequences. Finidi George replaced Peseiro and the experiment collapsed almost immediately. Justin Madugu replaced Randy Waldrum and the Super Falcons suffered another disastrous episode. Now the NFF wants an investigation into the failures. Investigation? Into what exactly? The evidence is sitting right there in front of them.
If the policy is truly “assistant takes over when the foreign coach leaves,” then why are we spending money to recruit highly qualified expatriates while apparently treating the local assistant as decorative furniture? And if the assistant isn’t considered capable of taking over, then what exactly was he learning or contributing during his time on the bench?
This is where the NFF’s logic begins to resemble an I-Pass,My-Neighbour generator: everybody knows it is faulty, everybody knows something is wrong, but somehow we keep adding fuel and hoping the light will come on.
The real solution is simple: stop appointing people to technical crews merely to satisfy local-content politics. Invest seriously in coaching education, demand competence, and build a genuine succession system. Then, when an expatriate leaves, we can confidently promote a Nigerian coach because he is actually ready, not because his name happened to be on the previous coach’s payroll.
Gusau and his men cannot keep manufacturing the problem and then presenting themselves as the committee set up to investigate it. At some point, the people investigating the fire must also explain who kept pouring petrol on the building.