The Rivers State Commissioner for Sports, Hon. Boma Iyaye has given a 6 weeks ultimatum to Glempkem Nigeria Limited contractors of the Sharks Stadium and Peaceline Worldwide Nigeria Limited, handling the No 6 Field to complete work or face government sanction.

Nearly four weeks after the Under-17 World Cup enforced recess, the Nigeria Premier League returned to the front burner on Wednesday with champions Bayelsa United losing to giants Rangers in the top-billed game of the week. Rangers defeated Bayelsa 1-0 and moved up the table. The coach Alphonsus Dike led side dominated the game and in the second half scored the only goal of the match.

Nigeria Premier League match between indomitable champions Enyimba Int’l FC Aba and CAF champions league runners – up Heartland FC Owerri promises to be the moral equivalent of war. Not so much because there is an immediate title chase, but that the two clubs are sworn clannish enemies going by events of the last years.

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.

A message of congratulations has been sent to the Super Eagles striker, Mr. Osaze Odemwingie, from his kinsmen in Uhronigbe in Orhiomwon Local Government Area of Edo State over his emergence as Nigeria’s Footballer of the Year in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) organised awards.

THE call by some Nigerians on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to sack Coach Shaibu Amodu as the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles has drawn the ire of his kinsman, Chief Peter Aronokhale, who described the call as unjust and uncalled for after the coach qualified the team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

WORKAHOLIC Eagles striker, Osaze Odemwingie is yet to come to terms that the Eagles have landed in South African for the 2010 World Cup. The CSKA of Moscow player who remains the only vibrant player in the Eagles said that it was all to him like a fairy tale the day after the Eagles beat Harambee Stars of Kenya 3-2. “It’s like you are in a deep sleep and be waking up and going back dreaming.

ABUJA _ Bolaji Ojo-oba was blowing hot minutes after Nigeria qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Here are his exact words as he celebrated Eagles 3-2 victory in Kenya :

THE DAY REPLAYED _ Unsung Switzerland stole the show in Abuja, dashing Nigeria’s hopes of crowning an exciting tournament with their fourth FIFA U-17 World Cup title. Taking part in the competition for the first time in their modest history, the Swiss made light of their status as newcomers and Nigeria’s imposing pedigree to win the country’s maiden FIFA title.

Let us learn from history. When GENOCIDE was being committed in Rwanda in 1994, US-led United Nations did not want to intervene and so tried to deny that genocide was taking place.

The executive committee of the Nigeria Olympic Committee rose from its pre-election meeting and announced that the Minister of Sports and chairman of the National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Nadanusa, had been disqualified from contesting for the NOC presidency in the December 9 election.