OPTIMISTIC Shaibu Amodu has talked about the high hopes of his Eagles reigning supreme at the Nations Cup in Angola and even vowed that “I’ll surprise people at the end of the tournament”.

Nigeria forward Yakubu Aiyegbeni could have spent his Christmas Day with his family at home, taking a well-earned break from the hectic schedule of a Premier League footballer.

Obafemi Martins has taken the final spot in Nigeria’s 23-man squad for this month’s African Nations Cup.Martins arrived at the Super Eagles’ Durban camp on Friday morning and did not take part in any of the team’s two training sessions. But he was certified fit by the Nigeria team medical crew later on New Year’s Day.

Nigeria Head Coach, Shaibu Amodu, now has a full house of the players he wants to prosecute this month ’s African Nations Cup finals with, at the final training camp in Durban, South Africa.

Worried about the recurrent incidence of crowd violence at football venues, the leadership of the West African Football Union, WAFU, is planning a crowd control seminar for Police chiefs in the sub-region.