The Chairman, Delta State Sports Council, Amaju Pinnick, has advised the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) to organise the 2012 league calendar to suit the clubs.

There is a consensus here among the coaching crew that the home-based Super Eagles can defeat Rwanda , in their backyard if they continue with the manner of training they have been going through and also with a decent attitude to the games.

Former Olympic 400m champion and renowned coach, Lee Evans is battling to stay alive as he is due to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor in San Jose, USA.

Former Nigeria youth international, James Igwilo has described the frequent hiring and sacking of national team coaches by the Nigeria Football Federation as “counter productive and retrogressive.”

Thursday’s planned break for home based Super Eagles players have been shelved by the NFF and the technical crew of the national team.

GOVERNOR Liyel Imoke Bridge Leadership Foundation, Community Connect Football has selected 10 players for camping in preparation for the 2012 Homeless World Cup to be played in Mexico.

Super Eagles officials have replaced Abuja Municipal Council with an Abuja Selected X1 for Tuesday tune-up friendly against the Super Eagles, who are currently camped in the Federal capital.

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.