The family of late Chief Sunday Dankaro has expressed appreciation over the naming of the newly built Football House after their late father.

Christian Chukwu, a former Super Eagles Coach, has urged the home-based Eagles and their handlers not to lose focus as they face Cote d’Ivoire in the return leg of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier in Abidjan.

Nigeria Football Federation has planned a mandatory Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test to be conducted at the Abuja National Hospital, for all the players of the Golden Eaglets preparing for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirate October 17 to November 9.

Ivorian home-based national team coach, Saraka Norbert admitted that it will be an uphill task turning the tables against their Nigerian counterparts, when they meet on July 27 for the second leg tie of the CAF African Nations Championship in Abidjan.

Kogi State Weightlifting Association (KSWA) head coach, Christopher Nwadei has stated that most Nigerian athletes failed to excel in international competitions because they trained with substandard facilities at home.

Members of the Nigerian 4x400m relay quartet had their wishes of kissing the 2000 Olympics gold medal awarded them by the IOC kept on hold, as President Goodluck Jonathan failed to meet the team on July 17 as earlier scheduled.

Former Nigerian internationals Henry Amike and Uchenna Emedolu took a retrospective look at the performances of the Nigerian team at the last IAAF World Youth Championships in Ukraine and declared that the outing is a reminder that much work needed to be done, if athletics were to prosper again in Nigeria.

Warri Wolves and Rangers International of Enugu have ironed out the contentious transfer of Super Eagles striker, Sunday Mba.

National Sports Commission (NSC) director of grassroots sports development, Alhassan Yakmut has attributed the reduced number of events for the forthcoming U-17 National Youth Games, to lack of patronage by participating states.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials said they have no fear of Nigerian athletes failing a dope test at the IAAF World Championships billed for August 10-18 in Moscow, Russia.