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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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 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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