The mother of Ivory Coast international Didier Drogba has been cooking for the national team supporters at a makeshift restaurant she set up near the fans’ village in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, where the Elephants are playing their Group B games.

WORRIED by the dwindling fortunes in the sports sub-sector of the nation’s economy, Nigeria’s most influential religious leader and the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has perfected plans to pray for God’s intervention in the area.

In 1985, Nigeria was at the verge of being eliminated from the FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifiers after the Flying Eagles fell 0-3 to Cameroon in the first leg. In the return leg in Lagos, the Flying Eagles triumphed after a hard-fought 5-0 victory. One man, Monday Odiaka stood out in that encounter after scoring a hat-trick. Odiaka, a former player of the defunct ACB Football Club of Lagos said he almost lost his life while scoring one of the goals. In this interview, Odiaka bared his mind on what he termed “the neglect by the government and the NFA.” Excerpts.

Super Eagles goal keeper trainer, Ike Shorunmu has urged Nigerians not to underrate the home Eagles ahead of the Rwanda tie in Kigali on February 29.

Chief Coach of First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos, Adewunmi Aderemi has expressed readiness ahead of next month’s Nigeria Open Basketball championship for Women billed for Abuja .

A lawyer, Belo Aidolojie has said that the verdict by the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowo has finally put the last nail on the coffin of the Nigeria Football Federation.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) has said that it has done more than enough to bring the lingering crisis rocking Nigerian football to an end , even as it noted that its effort in this direction has always been scuttled by officials of the embattled Nigeria Football Association (NFA).

Dolphins FC of Port – Harcourt during the week declared midfielder, Abduljeleel Ajagun absent from the team without official permission from the club.

Friday January 20, 2012, a Federal High in Abuja presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowo declared both the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and its affiliate, the Nigeria Premier League illegal as they are not known to any of the country’s laws.

Scribe of the Nigerian Handball Federation, NHF, Olusola Alao has said that the federation’s U-18 Championship will still hold in Sokoto State at the end of next month.

Former President of the Nigeria Cycling Federation and Secretary General of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Moses Iloh has lamented Nigeria’s absence in the on-going Nations Cup.

Following the court decision last week that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and its subsidiary, the Nigeria Premier League, NPL are illegal, former board member of the Nigerian Football Association, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja who took the case to court has disclosed that he is ready to take the case to any judicial level in the country in order for the right thing be done in the country’s football.

Former Flying Eagles star, Peter Nieketien has urged Super Eagles handler, Stephen Keshi to ensure he gets the best players for next month’s Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali.

The Ilorin Township Stadium will today be agog again as the two Premier League side from the city, ABS and Kwara United trade tackles in a Week Five match of the Nigerian Premier League.

Chief Coach of the Nigerian Weightlifting Federation, Patrick Bassey has stated that his athletes are sure of grabbing slots for the London Olympics at the forthcoming African Weightlifting Championship billed for March 28 – April 2 in Nairobi, Kenya.