Eche Amos, the club’s Media Officer, said in a statement that Nikyu’s departure comes after his three straight seasons as head coach of the club.
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In the rescheduled Match Day 31 encounter at the Lafia Township Stadium, the home victory returned Nasarawa United to second spot after dropping to fourth position.
Nikyu, while speaking with newsmen after their 3-0 defeat of Dakkada Football Club of Uyo at the Lafia Township Stadium, cautioned his players.
The Enugu-based team will on Sunday (today) play away to the “Big Elephants”, Wikki Tourists FC, at their adopted home ground of Jos in the reverse fixture of the Match Day 19 games.
Nigeria’s U-17 female team, played hosts and shared 2-2 spoils with their foes in the first leg at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin on February 3.
Nigeria will take on the Ethiopians in the first round of the African qualifying series of the sixth edition of the global competition, which debuted in New Zealand in 2008.
Nikyu said: “I was somewhat disappointed in the girls’ outing against Brazil.
“My team is much better than the one that went out on Saturday
Nikyu said: “Because of the name Brazil has in football, I think my players were frightened and didn’t settle to play the way we know they can.
Nikyu made this known while fielding questions from the media, during the pre-match Press Conference for both teams, after Flamingoes’ official training session on Friday afternoon at the King Abdullah II International Stadium in Amman
“They were selected based on their performance in camp, the team is tactically ready for the event, their fitness level is good, communication while playing is hundred percent now
The 5th FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup finals will hold from September 30 to October 21 in Jordan
The delegation of players and official will depart the shores of Nigeria aboard an Emirates Airline flight from Abuja on Monday night
Nikyu, who also led the Flamingoes at the last championship in Costa Rica, where Nigeria reached the quarterfinals, admitted that the players’s fitness is not yet at the level he desires, but added that everything is being put in place to make sure that the team improves tremendously before the end of this month
Nigeria, quarter finalists at the 2010, 2012 and 2014 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, has been drawn against Korea DPR, Brazil and England at the fifth edition of the competition starting in Jordan on the last day of September 2016
In the draw event, which took place at the Al-Hussein Cultural Centre in downtown Amman, the Bala Nikyu girls would face the Brazilian test in the opening group game at the 12,000 capacity King Abdullah II International Stadium
The draw ceremony will hold at the King Hussein Cultural Centre, Amman and will segment the 16 qualified nations into four groups of four teams each
Nikyu, who led the Class of 2014 to the quarter –finals of the World Cup in Costa Rica, spoke after the team’s evening training session on Monday, just as the South African Football Association announced that their contingent to Saturday’s game would arrive in Abuja in the early hours of Wednesday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the competition will hold from September 30 to October 21 in Jordan
The Flamingos, who have qualified for and participated in every edition of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup finals since the competition was launched in New Zealand in 2008, will take on the winner of the Botswana/Namibia first round fixture