Chairman of Bayelsa United FC Yenagoa , Chief Rumson Victor Baribote have formally indicated his interest to come on the board of the Nigeria Premier League in the forthcoming election slated for early next year.

Shaibu Amodu, the Eagles’ Chief Coach, would next week know whether or not his services with the national team would be retained.
The Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee has scheduled a meeting for next week to determine Amodu’s contract with the Eagles as well as the players that would be retained to prosecute the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Despite his disqualification by the Executive Committee of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), Sports Minister, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, insists he is eligible to contest for the NOC presidency at the forthcoming election.

Twenty four hours after Nigeria qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, coach Amodu Shuaibu was at the National Stadium, Abuja to watch the final of the Fifa U_17 World Cup which Nigeria lost to Switzerland. There, he told his Nairobi story;

IN the beginning, not many believed that the Eagles would cross the first hurdle of the FIFA U-17 World Cup which ended in flying colours at the magnificent Abuja national stadium. At the middle of the competition, the Eaglets converted so many to place their hopes on them as they improved from match to match.