The Action Congress (AC) has called for an urgent
investigation into the report that almost all members of the Nigerian Under_17 team preparing for the forthcoming Under_17 World Cup are over aged.

FIFA U-17 World Cup bound Gambian national team has served notice of its preparedness for the tournament by winning the Pepsi U-17 International Tournament at the weekend in Abeokuta. The Gambians who are the current African champions defeated the highly rated Liberty Professionals Academy of Ghana by 1-0 in an explosive final inside the Abeokuta Grammar School Sports complex.

Members of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation are running from pillar to post following the result of the Magnetic Resounding Imaging (MRI) scan carried out on the players of the Golden Eaglets.

From the obscure Ojo zone in Lagos state, she grewup to become a phenomenon in athletics, both in Nigeria and Africa, dominating the scene for a very long time.

As the 10th Edition of the 2009 Abesan Unity Cup kicksoff on Monday, August 24th 2009, Philanthropist, Bayo Olugbemi has urged the technical crew of the U-17 national team to visit the venues of the competition in order to fish out talents, as Nigeria prepares to host the world come October .