Former minister of sports, Bala Ka’oje, has criticised the Nigeria Football Federation over the manner they have been going about the engagement of a new technical manager for the national team.

Super Eagles’ captain, Nwankwo Kanu, has said that he prefers an hospital built in the name of the Kanu Heart Foundation, to winnning a World Cup medal with the Nigerian team in South Africa.

Italian Ariggo Sacchi and Englishman Glenn Hoddle have become the latest names to be associated with the Nigerian national team coaching job, although the Italian has made it clear he will not be coming to Abuja to attend a scheduled interview.

ABUJA — Amidst doubt that the redeployed Eagles’ technical crew would shun their new posting, the team’s chief coach, Shaibu Amodu, and his technical assistants have reported at the Nigeria Football Federation secretariat to indicate interest in their new assignment just as some of the players were disgusted over the presence of their new head coach.

Athletes from competing companies literally lit up the Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere, as the final of men and women100 metres dash and the 4×100 metres relay races held on the closing day of the 13th Nigeria Oil and Gas Games in Lagos.