EVERYTHING starts with a dream. I have been dreaming of Nigeria winning the 2010 World Cup. Before you say it, I must confess I have been just finished treatment for symptoms of malaria, and the heat, in my own part of the world, has not really been helpful.

Despite the chest-thumping in the Glass House after the successful engagement of a renowned coach, Lars Lagerback for the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup-bound national team, there is a subdued pessimism over the semi-final target handed the Swede by the panel of interviewers. Nigerians have spoken and queried the semi final target as a tall order baring the short time to the World Cup.

Nigerian footballer, Endurance Idahor collapsed and died in Sudan while playing for Sudanese champions, El Merreikh on Saturday, in Khartoum. Reports suggest that the former national U-20 player was felled after a tackle left him on his back and couldn’t breath again. He was immediately rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Al Merreikh football club of Sudan officials are still reeling from the sudden death of former Nigerian youth international Endurance Idahor.

Newly appointed Eagles’ technical adviser, Lars Lagerback burnt the ‘midnight candle’ and was adequately ready to take on for the Nigeria Football Federation interview panel, which screened four other coaches for the position.

Former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Sani Toro has backed Coach Lars Lagerback to undo the damages caused by erstwhile Super Eagles coach, Shuaibu Amodu, by leading Nigeria to a credible outing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

ALHAJI Aliko Dangote, Nigerian born billionaire commodity merchant, industrialist has again made it on the list of the world richest men alive, according to a Forbes World Richest Billionaires released yesterday. But his friend and arch rival, Femi Otedola has, however, dropped out of the list probably due to the stock market crash that has gravely eroded his fortune.

MINISTER of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa has said that the forthcoming USA-Nigeria Business Forum will not only boost business between the two countries but also improve diplomatic relations between them.

By Tony Ubani, Accra Ivorian and Chelsea striker, Didier Dorgba, last night, emerged winner of the Glo-CAF African footballer of the year award for the year 2009. This makes it the second time that the 32-year-old former Marseille forward, would be scooping the prestigious award after claiming the top gong in 2006. At a colourful […]

Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo believes Technical Adviser Lars Lagerback is the right man for the Super Eagles job but says the Swede must feel the passion of the players in order to succeed.

Nigerian banks are being owed an estimated N1.6 trillion by local oil and gas companies it was disclosed yesterday. Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions at a briefing Thursday said the establishment of the Asset Management Corporation, AMC, would help to reduce the level of such debt overhang she claimed had paralysed credits to the economy by the banks.

In its drive to be self-sustaining and independent in the area of funding, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has thrown open 18 sponsorship categories to local and international sponsors for leveraging.

Chairman of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) Electoral Committee, Rev. Moses Iloh, whose body was set up to mediate the electoral crisis between Sports Minister, Sani Ndanusa and NOC President, Habu Gumel, has said that the report of the panel was binding on all members of the Olympic family.

BARELY three months after the Federal Government promised to probe the missing 90 million litres of petrol belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwanu Lukman, said he has done his best to probe the matter; even as it appears to has been swept under the carpet.

Former World Boxing Organisation, WBO, heavyweight champion, Nigeria’s Henry Akinwande, has said that Olympic champions are not made over-night, but through a deliberate and sustained programme of action over time. He made the assertion against the backdrop of preparation for the National Junior Boxing Championship which kicks off this morning at the boxing gym of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.