Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Sani Ndanusa has made a clarion call on the Eagles not to relent in their quest to secure a 2010 World Cup qualification ticket at the expense of Tunisia.

The nation’s football authorities have been advised to disband the Super Eagles and its technical crew, if the country eventually fails to secure a spot at the World Cup in South Africa.

The IAAF medical and judicial commission is set to come out with a true definition of a female athlete after the gender row involving the South African runner cast a shadow on the women 800m race at the Berlin 2009 World Championships. The race was effortlessly won by the 18-year-old Semenya, but the world of athletics hardly accepted the victory as the IAAF admitted that it has carried out a gender test on Semenya.

THE biggest challenge our sports face is that the sports authorities do not know the enormity of the problems before them. Anyone one of them you ask would proffer that once he gets enough money (whoever gets enough money?) to run sports, all the problems would be over. In summary, poor funding is central to the challenges in sports.

In two separate discussions yesterday, two ex- internationals of repute said things that should interest the technical crew of Green Eagles headed by Shaibu Amodu.