Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita was on Sunday named Mali’s top sportsman for 2011.

Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor believes that Manchester City’s Premier League title push could be derailed by January’s African Cup of Nations tournament.

In view of President Goodluck Jonathan’s submission of the 2012 budget last week to the National Assemble, in which no consideration was again given to sports as the presidency’s key attention for the year, former Bauchi State Sports Commissioner Alhaji Sani Ahmed Toro and CAF technical committee member, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde have expressed their pain on the little attention given to sports in the budget.

Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer, Ike Shorunmo has revealed that the three home based goal-keepers in the Eagles camp would be nurtured to become top goalkeepers for the country.

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has congratulated former Nigeria captain Austin Jay Jay Okocha and Perpetua Nkwocha for being honoured by the Confederation of African Football at the CAF/Glo African Football Awards in Accra, Ghana on Thursday.

Nigeria Association of Women in Sports (NAWIS) president, Gloria Obajimi, has hailed Delta state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan for giving a N25m grant to aid Delta athletes’ preparations for next year’s Olympics Games.

The 2011 Women Africa Hockey Cup for Club defending champions, Heartland Queens of Nigeria have retained their title as the tournament came to a close in Lusaka, Zambia last weekend.

Events of last week in Yenagoa have shown that those who profess to be managing the game of football in Nigeria are not prepared to make progress from the slide the game has taken these past years.

Technical Adviser of the Wrestling Federation of Nigeria, WFN, Dr. Daniel Igali has said that the preparation of the federation ahead of the Olympics is in top gear following the performances of wrestlers at the just concluded Sylva’s Classics held in Yanegoa, Bayelsa State.

Former Super Eagles assistant coach, Lawrence Akpokona has said that Nigeria may face a tougher 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers, if the country fail to learn from her past mistakes.

Former Green Eagles goalkeeper Adisa Amusa has commended the idea of the Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi to get quality home-based players that will beef up the senior national team ahead of the 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers and the 2014 World Cup campaign.

Technical adviser of Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Lodewijk De Kriuf has revealed his plans for the team ahead next year’s competition.

A US-based sports philanthropist, Mr. Iyere Ernest Ahamioje has called for total support and encouragement for talented kid footballers in Nigeria to get replacements for aging Super Eagles players.

Former Super Eagles assistant coach Joe Eric a.k.a “Erico” has counseled Nigerians not to be disappointed by the bad results recorded by the Super Eagles in 2011 but to “think positive and plan well to make the future better and more resulted oriented.

Nigerian Taekwondo athletes who left the country for South Korea last week for training are expected back on January 6 next year ahead of the Olympics qualifier billed for January 11 to 12 in Cairo, Egypt.