Alhaji Sani Ndanusa, the amiable Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC) may already have his eyes set for great achievements during his tenure. Coming from the position of Chairman of Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), where he has an impeccable record of success, he believes the country should look beyond football and elevate the status of other sports so as to win international laurels.

WHAT most Nigerians thought was not possible, has become a stark reality. Wholly Nigerian Pay TV Company, HiTV has the exclusive rights to broadcast all the matches (including Play offs) when the UEFA Champions League football, regarded as the ‘‘biggest show on earth’’, begins on August 18.

On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama was always trying to squeeze in a game of pickup basketball, but since he’s been in Washington, golf has become the first pastime.

It would have been a hell of a story, wouldn’t it?”
Tom Watson summed things up perfectly in the immediate aftermath of his ultimately failed bid to provide us with the greatest script in the history of golf.

Former Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu has said that Austin Okocha should not be compelled to come out of retirement to salvage Nigeria from missing out on a place to among the 32 nations that would grace the soccer fields of South Africa, when the World Cup comes to Africa for the first time in 2010.