After a disappointing outing at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics concluded Sunday inside the Olympic stadium here in Berlin, the Nigerian contingent led by Athletic Federation of Nigeria president, Chief Solomon Ogba, will start arriving Nigeria today in batches.

A total of 29 players in Nigeria’s team preparing for this year’s Fifa Under-17 World Cup are believed to have failed the MRI bone scan test.A letter from Fifa to the NFF over the weekend stated that: “13 out of the 36-man squad failed the test on level 6, while 16 others failed the tests on levels 4 and 5.” This means that only 7 out of the 36-strong squad are eligible for the tournament.

AS Nigerians look forward to the September 6 all-important match against Tunisia in the 2010 World Cup qualifier, assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Daniel ‘The Bull’ Amokachi, said that “qualification is in our hands”.

Senate President, David Mark, was an angry man over the weekend following the dismal performance of the country’s contingent to the recently concluded IAAF World Championship in Berlin, Germany.

The 12th World Athletics Championships ended here in Berlin yesterday with Nigeria not being able to change their story since 1999 when they last won medals in the greatest athletics championships.

The board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria has appointed an eight_man investigation panel to unravel the immediate and remote causes of the recent dope failures by Nigerian athletes.

ABUJA – Players of the Super Eagles are looking up to pocketing $10,000 each as new match bonus against Tunisia in the September 6 World Cup qualifier at the Abuja National Stadium.

The Director General of the National Sports Commission, (NSC), Dr. Patrick Ekeji has called for stiffer sanctions for athletes found to have used performance enhancing substances to boost their careers.

The Action Congress (AC) has called for an urgent
investigation into the report that almost all members of the Nigerian Under_17 team preparing for the forthcoming Under_17 World Cup are over aged.

FIFA U-17 World Cup bound Gambian national team has served notice of its preparedness for the tournament by winning the Pepsi U-17 International Tournament at the weekend in Abeokuta. The Gambians who are the current African champions defeated the highly rated Liberty Professionals Academy of Ghana by 1-0 in an explosive final inside the Abeokuta Grammar School Sports complex.

Members of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation are running from pillar to post following the result of the Magnetic Resounding Imaging (MRI) scan carried out on the players of the Golden Eaglets.

From the obscure Ojo zone in Lagos state, she grewup to become a phenomenon in athletics, both in Nigeria and Africa, dominating the scene for a very long time.

As the 10th Edition of the 2009 Abesan Unity Cup kicksoff on Monday, August 24th 2009, Philanthropist, Bayo Olugbemi has urged the technical crew of the U-17 national team to visit the venues of the competition in order to fish out talents, as Nigeria prepares to host the world come October .

Former Rangers Assistant coach Sylvanus Okpala is confident that Super Eagles will defeat the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the 2010 World Cup qualifier slated for Abuja on September 6.

With little over one week left until volunteer applications for the 2010 FIFA World Cupâ„¢ close on 31 August, people the world over are responding in their numbers as applications fast approach the 50,000 mark.