Former president Nelson Mandela Wednesday met track champion Caster Semenya and South Africa’s two other world athletics medallists, a day after they were given a rapturous welcome on their return home from Berlin.

Public Mobilization and Awareness Committee for the 2009 Under-17 World Cup has decried the lateness in mobilising Nigerians for the cadet games coming up in Nigeria between October 24 and November 10, 2009.

The sustenance of squash in Nigeria got a remarkable boost when the Cargolux squash tournament was held at the Lagos Country Club which makes it the biggest squash tournament held in Nigeria this year.

Nigeria left Berlin without a medal but Patrick Ekeji did with a symbolic one.The Director-General of the National Sports Commission arrived here towards the end of the World Athletics Championship and in his two-day stay he achieved what he hopes could transform to gold medals for Nigeria in big meets.

Head Coach of the national U-17 team, Golden Eaglets, John Obuh, has dropped 15 players from the camp of the squad preparing for the 13th FIFA U-17 World Cup finals which Nigeria is hosting from 24th October to 15th November this year.

All roads will next weekend lead to Abuja, the nation’s capital city for two events, the Verallen Scrabble Classics and the 2010 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.

Tests have revealed Caster Semenya’s testosterone level to be three times higher than those normally expected in a female sample, BBC Sport understands.

The Chairman of the Print media committee for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, Bolaji Adebiyi, said yesterday that Nigeria Football Federation has assured that the Eaglets would be ready for the event.

The list of nominees for the ground breaking AIT Football Awards is ready to be presented to the public. In a press release by event manager, Neo Media and Marketing, the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ehi Braimah, said the list is ready for the public. “The Award Committee first met two weeks ago at the […]

No fewer than 6,000 young footballers participated in the Zonal Trials of the ongoing Oceanic Football Talent Hunt with Jay Jay Okocha over the weekend at the playing ground of the Nigeria Army cantonment at Ikeja, Lagos.

Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini admitted Monday that managing all of the Spanish giants’ new stars “will not be easy” this season.
“That will be the big challenge of this project. Many were top players at their clubs, it will not be easy,” sports daily Marca quoted him as saying.

A total of 29 players in Nigeria’s team preparing for this year’s Fifa Under-17 World Cup are believed to have failed the MRI bone scan test.A letter from Fifa to the NFF over the weekend stated that: “13 out of the 36-man squad failed the test on level 6, while 16 others failed the tests on levels 4 and 5.” This means that only 7 out of the 36-strong squad are eligible for the tournament.

THE Management Board of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu wants former Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Clemens Westerhof, to handle the coal city club in the next season ahead of the September 5 interview slated for those wishing to take up the job and other vacant positions in the club.

Shaibu Amodu, the Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, has included Obinna Nwaneri and John Utaka but dropped Daniel Shittu and Joseph Akpala from the squad in his last minute decision to bloat his team to 23 for the crunchy September 6 South Africa 2010 World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in Abuja.

After a disappointing outing at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics concluded Sunday inside the Olympic stadium here in Berlin, the Nigerian contingent led by Athletic Federation of Nigeria president, Chief Solomon Ogba, will start arriving Nigeria today in batches.