The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp(NSCDC), has deployed additional five thousand personnel to the earlier deployed ten thousand, to provide security and effectively cater for the teaming population in the on-going FIFA U-17 World Cup.

German coach Marco Pezzaiuoli has said that his players were nervous and lost to Argentina last night in the Fifa Under-17 World Cup group game at the Abuja National Stadium. But he said that Germany were not yet out of the cadet championship.

Following the scanty crowd that graced the opening matches of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Abuja, Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has assured all that the Gateway Stadium in Ijebu-Ode would witness full capacity on Sunday when the venue hosts the first of the three matches allotted to it.

Debutants, Switzerland, continued their fairy-tale run in the ongoing Nigeria 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup with a stunning 4 — 3 victory over hard-fighting Japan in their third group B match played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, yesterday.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for Kano at the Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria says there will not be a repeat of the floodlight failure that stopped play on Monday.

Bruno Gozzelino, the new president of the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) has hailed the William Archibong-led Local Organising Committee for the Obudu international mountain race for making the annual 11 kilometres mountain race unarguably the best organised and highest paying mountain race in the world.