Athletics coach, Paul Obodoechina, has advised top Nigerian athletes staying away from the AFN golden league to return and compete in order for them to achieve their peak performance.

As the family of late sports philanthropist, Nathaniel Idowu, prepares to lay his body to rest this weekend, former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Yusuf Ali, has said that Nigeria had lost a man who sacrificed a lot for the development of sports in the country.

NEW Sports Minister, Isa Bio, may have been briefed about Lagos State and its journalists and he came prepared. In his first official visit to the once Mecca of sports in Nigeria, Bio came to inspect the dilapidated structures but in an apparent bid to impress the critical journalists, he committed more blunders than the one he made in Abuja.

Sports Minister and National Sports Commission chairman, Ibrahim Bio, yesterday, declared that the case of missing Nigeria Football Association $236,000 (about N35.4m), is far from being over. He stated that all indicted officials will be made to face the music.

In a part of the world that is not exactly renowned for good news, the bold bid by the Gulf state of Qatar to stage soccer’s World Cup in 2022 has the potential to transform the region’s image throughout the world.