Leicester City’s extraordinary rise to the top of the Premier League has been recognised with the inclusion of three Foxes stars — Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante — on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association Players’ Player of the Year award.

As the confusion caused by the judgement of a Jos high court on the legal tussle between the Amaju Pinnick-led board of the Nigeria Football Federation and the Chris Giwa-led group continues, the case may assume a new dimension as an extra-ordinary congress has been fixed for today in Abuja by the FIFA-backed Pinnick board.

Following doubts expressed by some Nigerians yesterday over the warning letter from FIFA that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF may be suspended if the Jos Court order ‘sacking’ the Amaju Pinnick-led Board was implemented, Vanguard Sports wrote a letter to FIFA asking it to confirm the veracity or otherwise of the email from its Zurich, Switzerland headquarters.

Chris Giwa, chairman of NPFL side Giwa FC has called the bluff of the Youth and Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung, by insisting that he would forcefully take over the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation today.

Nigeria have qualified for the 2016 African Women’s Cup of Nations after defeating Senegal 2-0 at the National Stadium, Abuja on yesterday evening