Former national team coach, Tunde Disu, has warned his colleague at the head of the technical crew of the national team, Shaibu Amodu, to be wary of his group opponents especially Argentina in the FIFA World Cup, even as the Eagles’ immediate task was the African Cup of Nations.

The All Nigeria Secondary Schools Football Championship tagged NNPC/Shell Cup which many thought has been rested will still hold after all with state preliminaries already on nationwide.

Unless there is a reversal of fortune for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, the country’s athletes are set to face the 2010 season without running a single competition at the local level.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi has been named Fifa World Footballer of the Year to complete a stunning 2009 for the Argentine forward.

The minister who flew into Lagos Monday for a first hand inspection of the state of facilities at the National Stadium complex looked sad after the inspection, particularly the state of the Olympic size swimming pool, the indoor sports hall, the boxing gym and the table tennis knock up hall.

Determined to ensure Nigeria win the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation has made provision for a physical trainer for the national team and has actually begun search for one.

Association of Sports Veterans of Nigeria has expressed shock at the death of the first captain of the pioneer Nigerian National football team, Etim Henshaw, who passed on recently in his country home in Calabar.

PETIT Bilikisu Raji of Epetedo Girls Grammar School, Logos Island was the toast of soccer fans at the Saint Gregory’s College play ground Obalande weekend when her side clashed with Akande Daunsi Community High School Lekki at the females final of District three of the on-going Lagos – GT Bank Principals’ Cup.

Coach Shaibu Amodu has said that he had no target for the Nations Cup in Angola.
But the comments of Ida Peterside, Eagles spokesman, indicate that Amodu probably made such comments to repel pressure that would naturally follow if he promised Nigerians a set target for the Nations Cup.

Super Eagles coach Shaibu Amodu during last week released a 32-man list for Nigeria’s campaign at the Nation’s Cup in Angola next year. The list was not different from the normal. It had same players who prosecuted his World Cup and Nation’s Cup campaigns.