Nigeria’s Under-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, will tackle two-time African champions Gambia next month, according to the team coach, John Obuh.

The NPL (Nigeria Premier League) has slapped a six-month ban on Warri Wolves player Okey Nwabeke and has handed life bans to two fans following an incident before a league match between Enugu Rangers and Warri Wolves in Nnewi last season.

Super Eagles goal keeper trainer Alloy Agu has said that the technical crew would intensify their monitoring of players at home and abroad but insisted that time had run out for them to try unknown players. He called such an exercise, gambling.

As at the close of entries on Saturday evening more than 700 athletes had entered for the Mobil Championship and still counting.

Abia State Governor, Theodore Ahamefule Orji, has charged World Wrestling Professionals (WWP) African Heavyweight champion, Osita Offor, better known as De Ultimate Commander, to ensure that he gives a good account of himself in Scotland, where he will be fighting in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship.