The Nigeria Football Federation announced yesterday that Warri Wolves, which finished 4th in the Nigeria Premier League in the recently-ended season, will fly Nigeria’s flag in next year’s CAF Confederation Cup.

PRESIDENT GENERAL (World-Wide) of Supporters Club, Dr. Rafiu Ladipo, took a cursory look at the mammoth crowd that turned out at the Teslim Balogun Stadium on Sunday to cheer Enyimba and Sharks in the Federation Cup final and declared that Governor Babatunde Fashola has done well for football.

In a bid to reinforce the stature of the MTN brand as truly international, the telecommunications giant has expanded the frontiers of its strategy to enrich the lives of its customers by making history as the first brand of African origin to sponsor a FIFA World Cup, the very first to be played on the African soil.

Captain Okey Odita has admitted that Enyimba were lucky to scrape a 1-0 victory over Sharks in the final of this year’s Federation Cup held weekend at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.

I want to say that Nigeria will qualify for the World Cup. And it is only Okocha who can speak whether he will come back or not. There are many variables to one coming back to the team.

Public Awareness and Mobilisation Committee for the Nigeria 2009 Under-17 World Cup will hold its second meeting at the National Stadium Abuja today where critical programmes to sensitise Nigerians on the forthcoming football fiesta would be discussed.

Benue State governor and Athletics Federation of Nigeria honorary president, Gabriel Suswam, has guaranteed a happy ending for the Abuja Grand Prix, slated for this Saturday at the National Stadium Abuja.

Former disabled athlete, Aliu Adebayo, has decried the attitude of state governments in attaching unequal values to medals won by physically challenged athletes and their able-bodied counterparts. Adebayo, who won a gold medal in 100m at the All Africa Games in South Africa in 1999, lamented a situation where gold medal won by a disabled athlete is described as a disabled gold, adding that this attitude has helped to kill their fighting spirit and morale more than their physical challenges.

By Tony Ubani FEDERATION Cup champions Enyimba of Aba still savouring their victory over Sharks may still break the hearts of the Port Harcourt side in going continental. The Aba Elephants finished third in the Globacom Premier League to win a ticket to carry Nigeria’s cross in the Confederations Cup. The Federation Cup victory also […]

SPORTS in Anambra state may have suffered neglect in the past due to lack of commitment from the previous administrators who relegated sports to the background. Governor Peter Obi hopes this should be a thing of the past with the new stadium he built in Onitsha and his resolve to re-engineer sports in the state.

SUPER Eagles Captain Nwankwo Kanu and former Africa’s fastest female sprinter, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi were the toast of the youths in Anambra state at the commissioning of the newly constructed Onitsha North Mini-Stadium by Governor Peter Obi.

By Tony Ubani President of Nigeria Football Federation, Sani Lulu Abdulahi has praised Governor Babatunde Fashola and indeed Nigerians for trooping out in their thousands to watch the Federations cup final at the Teslim Balogun Stadium. The absence of fans in stadia have been a major headache to the NFF and sponsors but at the […]

By Fidelis Ebu ABUJA — Staff of the   Nigeria Premier League yesterday suffered humiliation as they were forced out of their offices by court bailiffs as well as officers from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board. The stern-looking bailiffs and AEPB officers had arrived the premises of the NPL at about 9:30 a.m. and immediately ordered […]

By John Egbokhan Former Super Eagles’   Coach, Augustine Eguavoen, is angling for a  contract extension from Enyimba, as his one year deal nears it end with the end of the football season. The former Super Eagles’ defender, who is  relishing his spell at two-time CAF Champions League winners, Enyimba, who, at the weekend, lifted the […]

By Fidelis Ebu ABUJA — Staff of the   Nigeria Premier League yesterday suffered humiliation as they were forced out of their offices by court bailiffs as well as officers from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board.