Inactivity of the Eagles in recent months manifested in the team, dropping a step down on the FIFA rankings for the month May.

The Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, has assigned nine police officers to travel with the Nigeria Football Supporters club to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup beginning June 11 to July 11. The officers will be attached to the supporters club throughout the World Cup period.

The national team yesterday held their Saudi Arabian counterparts to a goalless draw in a pre-World Cup warm-up match played in Wattens, Austria.

The Nigeria Football Federation has stated that it is not taking anyone to the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa for the purpose of a jamboree.

Nigeria’s foremost queen of the track, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, has applauded the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, for introducing the Golden League series in the countries athletics calendar.|

MTN, preferred by many Nigerians, recorded another impressive feat in its determination to cater for people in the country. The company turned the commercial city of Kano agog last weekend following the arrival of the world’s biggest ball in the ancient city.

In the prime of their football careers, African greats Jay-Jay Okocha and Kalusha Bwalya were rated among the most gifted individuals to emerge from the football-mad continent.

The Nigeria Football Federation has decided to step in full force to avoid the collapse of the international friendly encounter between the Super Eagles and Colombia, billed for London on May 30.

The first African indigenous mobile phone maker, Anabel Mobile, has thrown its weight behind the development of sports in Nigeria by partnering with Ikoyi Club to organise an open Badminton tournament for school age children and adults.

SPORTS and sporting activities in academic curricula have been described as a veritable tool through which excellence in pupils can be measured.