Bruno Gozzelino, the new president of the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) has hailed the William Archibong-led Local Organising Committee for the Obudu international mountain race for making the annual 11 kilometres mountain race unarguably the best organised and highest paying mountain race in the world.

For battling to a 3-3 draw against Germany in their FIFA Under-17 World Cup Group A opener, members of the Golden Eaglets were given their full winning bonus of $500.

Nigerians have continued to visit world football governing body, FIFA, with numerous problems.The body is worried over reports of debts to the contractors of Local Organising Committee, LOC. Ordinarily, such would nothave mattered to them but for the fact that some of these contractors have written them threatening to disrupt the ongoing Under-17 World Cup if they were not paid. Being an international body threats were not strange to them. But they did not know that it would be so bad that some of the petty contractors would approach them to beg for money.

AbujA—The failure ofmany journalists to get media accreditation to cover the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, holding across eight centres in Nigeria, has been blamed on the Local Organising Committee.

Two players from the United Arab Emirate have fallen to the magnetic resonance imaging test carried out on virtually all players in the on-going FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the country.