Category: Sports

Eagles CSO Gets IG’s Reform Mandate

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

ACP Gideon Akinsola, Super Eagles CSO It was another time for backslapping in the Super Eagles camp during the week when the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, announced the appointment of national team’s Chief Security Officer and FIFA Security Officer in Nigeria, ACP Gideon Akinsola as the Chairman of a five-man committee to [...]

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Eagles Dazzle with New CAF Balls

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

Super Eagles The Nigeria Football Federation is not letting anything to chance as the national team prepares for its SA 2013 Nations Cup qualifier opener against the Wasps of Rwanda next week in Kigali. On Wednesday, the football house released new CAF balls used at the recent Equatorial Guinea-Gabon 2012 Nations Cup to the team [...]

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FG to spend over N336 million on new NFA secretariat

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Federal Government is to spend more than N336 million on the proposed new secretariat of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) in Abuja. The supervising Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja while unveiling the NFA Building Structure at the National Stadium. “This unveiling ought to have been done a [...]

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NFF and Fifa to continue discussions on way forward for Nigerian football

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments
NFF and Fifa to continue discussions on way forward for Nigerian football

Lavezzi sends Napoli close to dreamland The Azzurri have half-a-foot in the quarter-finals after claiming their latest San Paolo scalp, but the Londoners will be thanking their lucky stars the defeat wasn’t heavier Click here to read more: Sports

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Nigeria: No Review of NFF House Contract, Says Abdullahi

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

Sports Minister Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi yesterday said the N336.3 million earmarked for the building of a befitting secretariat for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) cannot be reviewed because the contract sum is fixed. The minister, who stated this at the unveiling ceremony for the construction of the NFF House in Abuja, also noted that construction [...]

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Sports Minister Unveils Nigeria Football Headquarters

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments
Sports Minister Unveils Nigeria Football Headquarters

Posted: 2012-02-21 20:00 The Honourable Minister of Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who is also the supervising Minister/Chairman of the National Sports Commission, on Tuesday in Abuja unveiled the construction of the Nigeria Football House, which will, on completion, house the Nigeria Football Federation. The short but significant ceremony took place at the site of [...]

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NFF Crisis: NSC Turns to Blatter for Solution

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

NSC DG, Chief  Patrick Ekeji BBC National Sport Commission (NSC) officials hope a March trip to see FIFA chief Sepp Blatter will address the crisis in the country’s Football Federation. In January, a federal high court in Abuja dissolved the football federation (NFF) and Premier League (NPL), reports the BBC. The court declared that only [...]

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Nigeria seek answers from Fifa

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Nigeria’s National Sport Commission hopes a March trip to see Fifa chief Sepp Blatter will address the crisis in the country’s Football Federation. In January, a federal high court in Abuja dissolved the football federation (NFF) and Premier League (NPL). The court declared that only the Nigeria Football League (NFL) and the Nigeria Football Association [...]

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Nigeria federation president Aminu Maigari backs Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments
Nigeria federation president Aminu Maigari backs Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi

Road to final via Moscow for Mou’s Madrid The road to European glory starts in Moscow for Real, some 10 years after their last triumph in the continental competition when Mourinho was making his bow in the tournament Click here to read more: Sports

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Keshi picks Agbim, 19 others for Liberia

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Keshi picks Agbim, 19 others for LiberiaBy ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja Tuesday, February 14, 2012 More Stories on This Section Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, eventually settled for a 20-man list yesterday morning for tomorrow’s international friendly match against the Lone Star of Liberia in Monrovia. All the usual suspects were captured, including goalkepers- Chigozie [...]

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