With Obinna Metu declining to run the 200m and the ease with which Nigerian athletes are facing the reality of their true position against the best in the world, FLOP is the word for Nigeria here.

But Keshi refuses to accept that the best his side can aim for now is a place at the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola instead. Finishing third in the group, which also includes Benin and Sudan, would put Mali into the frame for Angola.

THERE were fears, yesterday evening, that militants and soldiers clashed in Sama, Asari-Toru Local Government, Rivers State while the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) in an online statement blamed the clash on the security operatives.

The sack of former Rang-ers International Technical Adviser, Christian Chukwu (MFR), is still generating tension in Enugu, the Coal City State capital. Chukwu’s old colleagues, known as Ex-Rangers International Footballers Association, rose from their explosive meeting, Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu, with a strong-worded letter addressed to the Executive Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, expressing their displeasure on what they called, “mal-administration and removal of the Technical Adviser, Mr. Christian Chukwu (MFR)”, adding that, “Rangers International FC is now being managed by non-starters and mediocres – in track suits”.

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – The Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA) has distanced itself from the reports credited to its President, Hajiya Haratu Aliyu, purportedly criticising the sacking of five chief executives of commercial banks by the Central Bank (CBN). The chamber said it supported the decision of the CBN to […]