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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by dominique(mod): 4:02pm On Apr 24

BeginsAtHome:
Not NPFL. The NPL (Nigeria Premier League) is the second tier of Nigerian league football.

Just like the English Championship.

The FA changed the name of the league to NPFL some years back. The lower league is now called NNL, Nigeria national league

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by BeginsAtHome(f): 4:05pm On Apr 24

dominique:
The FA changed the name of the league to NPFL some years back. The lower league is now called NNL, Nigeria national league

Oh, thank you my sister.

So they're back to top-flight Nigerian football.

18 years in waiting. Wow!!!

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by guobe(op): 4:50pm On Apr 24

stagger:
The replay format was intact then.

Abiola Babes had Rashid Yekini, while the Bees had Ayo Ogunlana.

First match ended 1-1, where keeper Daniel Abdullahi of Ranchers Bees conceded a howler of a goal. He was replaced with second choice Abdulrazak Olatunji who proved to be the star of the final.
Lovely one,you are really a veteran of the game,bravo.
Then we had the replay. Yekini struck first. Ogunlana equalized for the Bees. Match went to penalties. Both teams missed the first two each, with Razak Olatunji saving Yekini's penalty (the only recorded penalty miss by Yekini in his career).

Eventually, Abiola Babes scored the remaining three penalties, and Joseph Johnson missed the Bees' final spot kick to seal victory for MKO Abiola's team.

THE CONTROVERSY
At that time, the last team to win the Challenge Cup from the North was Kano Pillars and that was in 1953! So going into this final, it had been 34 years a team from the North won. Mighty Jets, Racca Rovers and DIC Bees (now Ranchers Bees) had all reached the final, and faltered.

So many had thought that the Ranchers Bees would win as they had a star-studded line up. But what played out in the penalty shootout had tongues wagging. All the penalty takers who missed for Ranchers were all southerners. The Northern PK takers scored.

So did the southern guys in Ranchers Bees throw the match? That question never got answered.

It took BCC Lions under Shuaibu Amodu to break the Northern jinx over the FA Cup in 1989. That team of his featuring late Capt Alumun Aule, Late John Zaki, Humphrey Jebba, late Amir Angwe, Edema Fuludu, Benedict Ugwu, Moses Kpakor, late Terfa Kpakor and others, later won the African Cup Winners Cup the next year and reached the final in 1991.

Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by femi4: 5:02pm On Apr 24

Welcome back Bees

Those days when naija league dey churn out talents

Ranch bees kaduna used to produce many great talents

We used to argue whether its Ranch or Rancher bees grin

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by femi4: 5:04pm On Apr 24

Gbadugbakun:
So how about MFM FC, when are they coming back?

MFM has been disbanded to protect the image of the Church and the mechanism now work with sporting Lagos

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by themanderon: 12:31am On Apr 25

Hahahaha. I used to hear of that club as a kid. So they still exist?

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by ussv: 2:25am On Apr 25

I`m excited.

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Re: Ranchers Bees Promoted To The NPFL After 18 Years by Parizz: 11:28pm On May 01

Bahamas95:
Chai! And I remember this club back then o.

Assuming I give woman belle dat time wey dem go relegation my pikin for don be 18years now.

Congratulations to them. 🥂🥂

you neva score?

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