South Africa coach Gordan Igesund has described the forthcoming clash between the Bafana Bafana and the Super Eagles at the Nelson Mandela Challenge on August 14 as a tough match and he says he is ready for the challenge of facing the African champions.

Super Eagles coach,Stephen Keshi said that he has drawn up a list of Nigeria-born players based in Europe he will likely invite to increase his options in the national team.

Former Olympian and national boxing coach, Isaac Ikhuoria has said that lack of tournaments in the country is telling on the quality of boxers the country is producing in modern day amateur boxing.

Team Delta has emerged the overall champions of the week-long National Youth Junior and Senior Weightlifting championships which ended on Friday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

Rangers of Enugu faced more sanctions concerning their players, after reliable duo Seun Taro and Pierre Coly were suspended by the Nigeria Football Federation’s appeals committee for unruly behavior.

The Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) said that it had concluded plans to ensure a successful outing for the D’Tigress at the Afro Basket Women Championship in Maputo, Mozambique. The NBBF said this in a statement signed by its Media Officer, Patrick Omorodion.

As the Super Eagles prepare to battle Malawi in the final leg of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, Dr. Edozie Okey Aroh, commissioner for youth and sports in Anambra State has advised Nigerians not to lose sleep over the match but be confident the Stephen Keshi-tutored side.

Still basking in the euphoria of qualifying for the CAF African Nations Championship for the first time, Super Eagles’ striker, Alhaji Gero has declared that Nigeria can repeat the Nations Cup 2013 feat accomplished by the full fledged Super Eagles in South Africa.

Kano Pillars FC chairman, Abba Galadima, said yesterday that that the three coaches involved in Thursday’s auto crash were responding to treatment from injuries they sustained.

Two sports administrators in Delta State, Amaju Pinnick, Executive Chairman of the State’s sports council and Evans Egbo, Chairman of Isoko United football club are trading words over the decision of the Delta State Sports Council to dissolve some football clubs in the state.