CAF Inter-club competitions: Why Nigerian clubs fail
By Douglas Baye-Osagie dbayeosagie@yahoo.com This season, Nigeria was represented by four clubs on the continent. Rangers International and Rivers United in the CAF Champions League, and Shooting Stars and El-Kanemi Warriors in the CAF Confederation Cup. The story is already familiar – while two have bowed out in their very first game of the tournament, […]
A. K. Amu sprints to great beyond
This is because while he lived, he conducted his affairs with automatic alacrity and clock efficiency. His death at the age of 77 took the athletics family by surprise, they had no time to prepare themselves to give a befitting burial to a man who no doubt pioneered modern athletics administration in Nigeria.
Youth athletes storm Oghara March 4 for Nkoyo Ibori
Athletics Federation of Nigeria has opened register for athletes who will compete for honours at the Nkoyo Ibori Youth Athletics Meet billed for Mach 4-6, 2010 at the Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara in Delta State.
Dibaba eyes record at Boston Indoor Games
Double 2008 Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has her sights set on reclaiming the Indoor 5000m world record at the Boston Indoor Games on Saturday.
Shehata‘ll not succeed with Eagles, Akpoborie
ERSTWHILE Eagles players, Jonathan Akpoborie has cast the first stone on Egyptian coach of the moment, Hassan Shehata describing him as a middle class coach. “That he won the Nations Cup with Egypt does not put him in the class of world-class coaches.
Nigerians Feeding on Football should ‘swim & sink’ with Amodu
PRESIDENT of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Sani Lulu Abdullahi was like a fish out of water after his board demoted Eagles coach Amodu Shuaibu last week.
