Nigeria’s Under-23 striker, Raheem Olawale Lawal is pained that it was not him and his team-mates that will play in the final of the CAF Under-23 Championship taking place Saturday in Morocco.

Former international, Innocent Egbunike has tabled his action plan for the London 2012 Olympics even as he is yet to be officially unveiled as the head coach of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.

Two-time African champions Enyimba of Aba are set to lose several of their top stars for the coming season after they failed to win a major trophy this past term.

The National Council on Sports in Nigeria yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed the establishment of the Nigerian Court of Arbitration for Sports, NCAS, by the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC.

HOW many cases are there in court against Nigerian football? I do not know. How many times have courts given orders for a return to the status quo bellum? Again, I am unaware. Does the National Assembly know about decks of illegalities around Nigerian football, from nomenclature to norms? I suppose it does not know.

Nigeria Football Federation technical committee member, Christian Chukwu believes that the federation will not take into account the gender of the coach that will be appointed for the women national team.

FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke says his organisation does not always feel welcome in England. The world football’s governing body, has been antagonised by the British media’s attempts to uncover corruption in the organisation, while England was hurt by FIFA’s decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia.

Following the recent slide in the country’s football , a football friendly company, Crown Media limited has launched what they call Soccer rumble, a television reality game show with prize money of $50, 000.

Cross River swept 85 percent of the athletics medals at the National School Sports Festival recently concluded in Calabar.

The President of the Nigeria Golf Federation, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has said that the game of golf would be the biggest beneficiary of the new partnership that the Federation has struck with communication giant Globacom.”I must tell you that the game of golf and golfers generally in the country are the winner in this new arrangement,” he said.

Coach of the national under-23 team, Austin Eguaveon revealed on returning from Morocco on Tuesday, how he almost quit the job days before the London 2012 Olympics qualifier began on November 26.

Nigeria has a rich record of performance in its participation in the Paralympics games, but that account may take a battering at next year’s London 2012 Paralympic Games as the country’s athletes are lagging behind in their preparations.

The Sports and Social Development Committee of the Senate on Wednesday charged the Nigeria Football Federation to re-strategize and focus more on home-based players, while also re-orientating players who represent Nigeria on the need for patriotic fervour and total commitment.

Former Nigeria skipper Nwankwo Kanu has said he was not sure that Nigerians have forgiven Yakubu Aiyegbeni for the bizare miss at the 2010 World Cup.

Super Eagles handler Stephen Keshi has dismissed report that he was the last man standing, after his former team mates who were coaching the national teams failed to qualify the country for international competitions billed for next year.