With Obinna Metu declining to run the 200m and the ease with which Nigerian athletes are facing the reality of their true position against the best in the world, FLOP is the word for Nigeria here.

But Keshi refuses to accept that the best his side can aim for now is a place at the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola instead. Finishing third in the group, which also includes Benin and Sudan, would put Mali into the frame for Angola.

The sack of former Rang-ers International Technical Adviser, Christian Chukwu (MFR), is still generating tension in Enugu, the Coal City State capital. Chukwu’s old colleagues, known as Ex-Rangers International Footballers Association, rose from their explosive meeting, Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu, with a strong-worded letter addressed to the Executive Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, expressing their displeasure on what they called, “mal-administration and removal of the Technical Adviser, Mr. Christian Chukwu (MFR)”, adding that, “Rangers International FC is now being managed by non-starters and mediocres – in track suits”.

Avinoam Porot is inhis 60s. He is an Israeli journalist who would always remind you that he is from a beautiful country.
A walk from our Abba Hotel on Lietzenburger street to Savignaplatz train station on our way to the Olympic Stadium brought out the best he knew of Nigeria.

INCREDIBLE! Usain Bolt smashes his own world record to win the world 100m title in Berlin. Tyson Gay was second in the third fastest time ever and Asafa Powell claimed bronze

ABUJA – Reports from the magnetic resonance imaging scan that ruled out 22 players from the Golden Eaglets’ camp is causing a stir at the Nigeria Football Federation as it has forced the federation to withdraw from the Council of East and Central Africa Football Association.

A staunch member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Andrew Aganbi, has called on Deltans in general and Waferians in particular to keep their cool in the face of the world soccer governing body FIFA clampdown on Warri Stadium for the forthcoming Under 17 soccer fiesta, Nigeria 2009.

Ibrahim Gusau is worried.The high standards of athletes here are scaring to the Nigerian officials. And daily, it dawns on them how low Nigeria has descended in track and field where they once flexed muscles with some of the best in the world.

Usain Bolt’s stunning 100 metres world record run in Berlin has fetched the Jamaican an awesome US$160,000 (about N24 million) for his efforts.

Vivian Chukwuemeka is blowing hot over the doping problems that have seen her leave the Nigerian Berlin Hotel camp here.
“If my urine tested positive to any banned drug, then the sample must have been tampered with. I have thrown 18 metres and didn’t test positive. Is it now that I am throwing just above 17 meters? Something is wrong somewhere and the federation has questions to answer.