Minutes after President Umaru Yar’Adua spoke to the Super Eagles and urged them not to let the country down, they filed out at the stadium in Rades, Tunisia, and got a result that has put Nigeria back on track for the qualification of the 2010 World Cup that will be staged in South Africa.

Nigeria head coach Amodu Shaibu said Saturday evening that his players must be thoroughly focused on their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia billed for Abuja on September 6. His lads came out of the ‘Rades cauldron’ with a valuable point from a 0-0 draw that could prove decisive for the campaign but the 50-year-old was not celebrating as he addressed them in the dressing room after the game.

Former Secretary-Gener-al of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Sani Toro, has said that the Super Eagles now have their 2010 World Cup qualification in their hands after their goalless draw with Tunisia in Rades on Saturday.

Justice D.C. Maidoh, a pioneer member of the Ibori Golf and Country Club Asaba marked his 50th birthday celebration with a Special Kitty played on the wed. 10th of June 2009 organised by by the club to commemorate him on his contributions to the development of the Club.

Kaduna has been chosen as the venue of this year’s Annual General Meeting, AGM, of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, NCF.Secretary General of the Federation ,Dans Adokiye in an exclusive interview with Sunday Sports said that the new board would meet in order to meet up with the board’s agenda set for the face lift of the game.