Nearly four weeks after the Under-17 World Cup enforced recess, the Nigeria Premier League returned to the front burner on Wednesday with champions Bayelsa United losing to giants Rangers in the top-billed game of the week. Rangers defeated Bayelsa 1-0 and moved up the table. The coach Alphonsus Dike led side dominated the game and in the second half scored the only goal of the match.

Nigeria Premier League match between indomitable champions Enyimba Int’l FC Aba and CAF champions league runners – up Heartland FC Owerri promises to be the moral equivalent of war. Not so much because there is an immediate title chase, but that the two clubs are sworn clannish enemies going by events of the last years.

Chairman of Bayelsa United FC Yenagoa , Chief Rumson Victor Baribote have formally indicated his interest to come on the board of the Nigeria Premier League in the forthcoming election slated for early next year.

Shaibu Amodu, the Eagles’ Chief Coach, would next week know whether or not his services with the national team would be retained.
The Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee has scheduled a meeting for next week to determine Amodu’s contract with the Eagles as well as the players that would be retained to prosecute the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Despite his disqualification by the Executive Committee of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), Sports Minister, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, insists he is eligible to contest for the NOC presidency at the forthcoming election.