Former Rangers Assistant Coach, Sylvanus Okpala, has charged the Super Eagles to go all out to make the country proud as they get set to lock horns with the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in a crucial 2010 World Cup qualifiers this weekend in Abuja.

Members of the national senior football team, Super Eagles, have started trooping into the Federal Capital, Abuja, for Sunday’s crucial 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been told by the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, to stake their lives for eternal glory, when they square up against Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles, in this weekend’s crunch 2010 World Cup qualifier at the Abuja National Stadium.

TWO times Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League winners, Enyimba International, World Wrestling Professional (WWP) African Heavy Weight Champion, Osita Offor, aka De Ultimate Commander and World/Paralympic Heavyweight Powerlifter, Obioma Aligwoekwe, were among the beneficiaries of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State’s reward for excellence weekend.

With the newly passed Tax Rebate on Sports as the main lolly, Nigerian leader, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the weekend raised close to N1billion in the bid for the Nigerian national team, Super Eagles, to qualify and make an appreciable impact at the forthcoming South Africa 2010 World Cup.

AS an advocate for the growth of Baseball and softball in Nigeria, what are the restrains of the game in this country?
The major challenge of the development of this game in Nigeria is lack of equipment because it is not like football where any child can just kick off a plastic ball and he starts playing.

With a week to the crucial 2010 World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in Abuja, former chairman of Nigeria Cycling Federation, Reverend (Dr.) Moses Iloh has come out with a shocking declaration that the team is not yet a winning side because of the ‘unfriendly’ aura within the team.

The First Nigeria Navy Service Co’s Cup kicked off last Sunday at the Navy Town football field, in Ojo Lagos with NNS Wey team defeating NNS Damisa 7-4 in the opening match.

It is no more news that the World Athletics Championship was held last week and it coasted well in Berlin. The World Championship is the equivalent of the Football World Cup event loved by everyone, a version(U-17) of which is to be hosted by Nigeria this year.

Former Chairman of the Gombe State Football Association, Alhaji Ahmed Gara Gombe has taken his battle to rid sports of injustice and corruption to his home state with a call on the state governor, Alhaji Mohammed Danjuma Goje to investigate the sports commissioner, Alhaji Ahmed Yayari over an alleged ‘missing’ N12 million budget for the club’s FA Cup campaign.