Members of the national senior football team, Super Eagles, have started trooping into the Federal Capital, Abuja, for Sunday’s crucial 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been told by the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, to stake their lives for eternal glory, when they square up against Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles, in this weekend’s crunch 2010 World Cup qualifier at the Abuja National Stadium.

TWO times Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League winners, Enyimba International, World Wrestling Professional (WWP) African Heavy Weight Champion, Osita Offor, aka De Ultimate Commander and World/Paralympic Heavyweight Powerlifter, Obioma Aligwoekwe, were among the beneficiaries of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State’s reward for excellence weekend.

With the newly passed Tax Rebate on Sports as the main lolly, Nigerian leader, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the weekend raised close to N1billion in the bid for the Nigerian national team, Super Eagles, to qualify and make an appreciable impact at the forthcoming South Africa 2010 World Cup.

AS an advocate for the growth of Baseball and softball in Nigeria, what are the restrains of the game in this country?
The major challenge of the development of this game in Nigeria is lack of equipment because it is not like football where any child can just kick off a plastic ball and he starts playing.