Super Eagles goal keeper trainer Alloy Agu has said that the technical crew would intensify their monitoring of players at home and abroad but insisted that time had run out for them to try unknown players. He called such an exercise, gambling.

As at the close of entries on Saturday evening more than 700 athletes had entered for the Mobil Championship and still counting.

Abia State Governor, Theodore Ahamefule Orji, has charged World Wrestling Professionals (WWP) African Heavyweight champion, Osita Offor, better known as De Ultimate Commander, to ensure that he gives a good account of himself in Scotland, where he will be fighting in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.

For the past few days, the Nigeria mass media has witnessed a plethora of comments, opinions, suggestions and criticism, for and against a pronouncement by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over Warri Wolves qualification to fly the country’s colours in next year’s CAF Cup competition.

The yearly Mobil track and field championship is reputed for throwing up stars and this year will not be an exception.
Athletes have had to shoot to stardom competing in the Mobil Championship. The latest in the list of stars who competed at the Mobil Championships and went to win an Olympic medal is Blessing Okagbare who won bronze in the long jump event in Beijing.

Veteran sports administrator, Chief John Ojidoh, turned 83 Sunday and while Sports Vanguard was congratulating him, the man took time to add voice to the controversy on the representatives of the country in the next season’s CAF Cup.

The 25-year-old had been linked with a move to Sevilla or Valencia, but instead he has chosen to join former coach Marcelino García Toral.

Former Davis Cup great, Sadiq Abdullahi, has discussed with the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, on ways to implement the government’s grassroots sports developmental plans and came out of the encounter, convinced that if properly executed, that Nigeria would reclaim its lost glory in sports.

FOLLOWING the prevailing call on former Super Eagles skipper Austin Okocha to quit retirement and lace his boot for Nigeria again at the 2010 World Cup billed for South Africa, former Enugu State Commissioner for Sports Honourable Okezie Nwanjoku believes the inclusion of Okocha will help Nigeria achieve her ambition at the global event.

Elated General Manager of Warri Wolves FC of Delta State Mike Idoko has dedicated the Confederations Cup ticket secured by the team to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and Chairman of Delta State Sports Commission Amaju Pinnick