Author: Bowale Odutola

The bulky defender, who was sent on loan to Dynamo Kiev of Russia by his employers, AC Milan, is also likely to serve yet another loan spell with Lille of France next season

It was, however, a sad tale for the immediate past Commissioner for Sports in Lagos State, Honourable Ademola Adeniji-Adele, whose bid to get into the board of the Nigeria Boxing Federation was rejected by delegates from other South West Zone, who voted in relatively unknown Rotimi Rasheed, a former Chief Medical Director of Ondo State Specialist Hospital as the zonal representative on the Boxing Federation board

Brand Manager, Nestle Milo Plc, Funmi Osineye, described this year’s edition of the Milo Secondary Schools Basketball Championship as a “champions dunkening time,” hinted that a record of 7,000 schools are participating in the annual tourney

The statement added that over 4,000 athletes from African countries and beyond, including the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, would be in the agrarian community of Okpekpe to participate in the race

“For me, I can’t wait to be part of the fiesta because it is every player’s dream to play at that level of the game and I want to make good use of the opportunity

The remaining five gold medals are for late Sunday Bada, Nduka Awazie, Jude Monye, Clement Chukwu and Fidelis Gazama

Emenike was making a return from injury for the first time, after injuring himself at the 2013 African Nations Cup, where he finished as the top scorer of the competition, with four goals

“At the moment, it looks like the club is no longer planning with me,” he revealed. “But it is fair enough that they don’t go out of their way for a player who has been out injured for a year and is now 33

It was gathered that some big wigs in Nigerian football, who prefer anonymity, have also begged the coach to overlook the players’ wrongdoings and hand them a recall into the national team

In the semi final matches decided on Sunday, Adamawa Boys sent out hosts, Kogi Boys, by a marginal one point victory as their highly contested, tension-soaked encounter ended 33-32 in favour of Adamawa State

The younger Ladipo further revealed that the family is seriously planning to fly their sick coach father abroad for better treatment but cash is standing in their way

“They (NFF) promised us in a meeting that apart from gracing the book launch slated for the Jogor Centre on Thursday, they will do everything possible to make the ceremonial football match a memorable one,” Olanrewaju said

“I didn’t know what came over me as I marched to take my kick after Success had scored the first one for us,” a crest fallen Nwakali said. “My coaches picked me because they have the confidence in me since we actually trained several times on the techniques of scoring penalty

This much was stressed by the top officials of the Technical Department of the NFF at a session with the team the morning after the debacle in Marrakech where they lost to Cote d’Ivoire in the final of the Under-17 Championship

“Frankly, whatever happens, we should still be thankful to God since we didn’t bargain for this,” a philosophical Manu said. “We wanted to go back to Nigeria with the Cup and gold medal and we created many chances and if we had taken them today, the story would have been different.”

Ujah said he has had a good season with FC Cologne, adding: “I’m enjoying football again after a difficult year with Mainz and it also shows the chances of playing for Nigeria is open to everyone.”
The player said the present squad of the Super Eagles will work hard as a team to bring success to Nigeria

The Nigerian Football Federation made it known that Onuoha rejected a request to join the Super Eagles squad for the 2010 World Cup

His words: “No matter what happened, I’m proud of these boys and they are champions and they will go far at the World Cup in Turkey