African Nations Cup 2013 hero, Sunday Mba Saturday proved to be the slayer of the Elephants of Cote’d Ivoire, when he scored a brace and made two other goals in the home-based Eagles’ 4-1 victory over their Ivorian counterparts in the CAF African Nations Championship first leg qualifier decided at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium Kaduna.

Ghana Under-20 coach Sellas Tetteh will have his full squad for Sunady’s quarter-final clash against Chile as he has no suspension worries ahead of the must-win game at the Istanbul Arena.

The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) on Saturday said it has signed an agreement with the South African Football Association (SAFA) for the Super Eagles to play Bafana Bafana in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge.

Former president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Dan Ngrem has warned that Nigerian athletes might return home empty handed from the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia as the country’s elite athletes are not managed effectively.

As Nigeria’s home-based Super Eagles face their Ivorian coun-terparts in today’s first leg of the Africa Nations Championship qualifier, Nigeria Football Federation secretary-general Musa Amadu has tipped the team to go as far as winning the tournament in South Africa.

Golden Eaglets assistant coach, Nduka Ugbade has said that the team’s July 7 open camp in Abuja is to pick more players for the team.

After an exciting Eastern Regional qualifiers and a highly competitive Western Regional qualifiers, the golfing community, once again, has another reason to rejoice, as the MTN World Golfers Championship, Northern Regional qualifiers tees off today at the IBB Golf Course, Abuja.

The tussle to emerge as one of the six teams that will be playing in the qualifier from the six geo- political zones nationwide and represent their respective states in the professional women’s league is almost coming to an end.

Combative midfielder, Joel Obi revealed that he his looking forward with excitement to his July 10 return to football action, after a long injury lay off.

Defending champions, Bauchi and host state Katsina will today at the Katsina Township stadium lock horns to decide the winner of this year’s YSFON organized 3rd edition of Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema U-17 Boys Soccer tournament.