As anxiety among Europe’s elite clubs mounts over which team will top the various groups of the ongoing UEFA Champions League, official broadcast partner for the championship on Hitv, Access Bank, will next week treat a select crowd to its Champions Forum in Lagos.

Enyimba say they want justice as regards the transfer of goalkeeper, Niyi Fabiyi to Bayelsa United.
Media officer of the club, Tonnex Chukwu said that Fabiyi is their goalkeeper who was wrongly registered for Bayelsa United by the NPL when they had not fulfilled transfer conditions.

A Seven Man Committee has been set up by the Nigeria Premier League board to conduct the election into the NPL board tenure for 2010-2014.

The meeting of Presidential Task Force and the Nigeria Football Federation Tuesday night resolved that Green Eagles technical crew could be enriched but that time factor would not allow for any changes or inclusions before the Africa’s Nations Cup starting in Angola in January.

Former Nigerian international, Tajudeen Disu, has slammed national team coach, Amodu Shaibu, for unwittingly engineering the current agitation for a foreign technical hand to take the national team to 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Thierry Henry is facing the prospect of being banned from the start of next summer’s World Cup finals after FIFA announced their disciplinary committee had opened proceedings against the French striker for his infamous handball.
The incident in the World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland was the main subject of an emergency meeting of the FIFA executive committee in Cape Town yesterday.

MORE sports facility development experts have continued to arrive Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on the invitation of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 National Sports Festival, Rivers 2010.

Senate sports committee member, Joel Danlami Ikenya, said that Nigerians should not put their faith on coach Shaibu Amodu if they want Nigeria to do well at the 2010 Nations Cup and SA 2010 World Cup.

Hero turned villain Joseph Yobo yesterday got the backing of Pillar of Sports, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who advised Eagles’ coach Shaibu Amodu to turn the defender to a wing half.

This package is big boost to improving sports infrastructure across the country. My hope is a successful tournament and I believe the Government has invested hugely in that regard.