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A cheering President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday night praised the indomitable spirit of the Nigerian soccer team to the Olympics Games, which saw them flying over Denmark 2-0 to qualify for the semi-finals. Said an elated President Buhari:"Again and again, the unconquerable Nigerian spirit has come to the fore, showing that where there is a will, there's always a way. This was a team that was not given much chance, but which has now advanced into the semi-finals. Go for it. Go for the gold, and let the Nigerian banner be held proudly aloft once again on the global stage. We are almost there. Let's go." President Buhari urged the Nigerian nation to pray and support the Nigerian contingent to the Olympics, especially the soccer team, so that the rest of the world will know that even in the face of economic adversity, the Nigerian spirit remains resolute and lifted high. "And this, we shall demonstrate in every sphere of our national life," the President ...

Former CAF and FIFA Executive member, Amos Adamu has called on Stakeholders in Nigeria to restructure the electioneering process into and reward mechanism of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to entrench peace after elections are won and lost. The former NFF Sole Administrator was speaking on the heels of the recent imbroglio rocking the NFF since the April 8th Court ruling nullifying the Congress and eventual election of the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF Board in a case brought before it by football Administrator, Chris Giwa. Giwa and Pinnick were front runners to replace former President Aminu Maigari in 2014 but irregularities in their elections have since resulted in back and forth litigation. Adamu, who was Nigeria’s highest football Administrator in FIFA, insists that there is need to pacify candidates who lost in such elections in order to forestall lingering crisis as has since engulfed the Pinnick-led board of the NFF.

Reports have it that the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has been sacked by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital. The court and also ordered Chris Giwa to resume office as president of the football federation. It was gathered that the duo of Adama Yahaya and Obinna Ogba had approached the court to re-list the suit against Pinnick which they withdrew after the intervention of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Before the court ruling, many Nigerians had demanded the resignation of Pinnick from office who blamed him for the failure of the Super Eagles to qualify for the AFCON 2017, same way they missed out on the 2015 edition. Pinnick had played down on the resignation calls, describing them as unnecessary. We await the reaction of the world football governing body (FIFA) to the new twist in Nigerian football as FIFA opposes football matters being taken to civil courts.

Arsenal kept their slender Premier League title hopes alive with a 4-0 victory over Watford at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday that exacted some revenge for their FA Cup defeat by Quique Sanchez Flores’s side last month. Alexis Sanchez’s fourth-minute goal set the tone for a one-sided win that was completed by Alex Iwobi’s 38th-minute effort, Hector Bellerin’s strike early in the second half and Theo Walcott’s last minute tap-in. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had insisted before this game his side, currently in third place, could yet win the title if they won their remaining eight games. And this victory moved them to within eight points of leaders Leicester City, 24 hours before Claudio Ranieri’s side face Southampton. Veteran French boss Wenger had admonished Mesut Ozil earlier this week after the Germany international claimed Arsenal had “screwed up” their title challenge. Having been clear favourites at the turn of the year, it was hard to disagree with Gunners playmaker Ozil’s co...

The Pharaohs of Egypt will be in for a shocker when it faces Super Eagles team later today in the second leg of their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier in Alexandria. According to tough talking members of the Nigerian squad, including technical director, Shaibu Amodu, the team is set to invoke the spirit of victory that helped it triumph over Kenya in 2009 on its home ground at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi in their crucial 2010 World Cup qualifiers. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) reports that team captain, John Mikel Obi, who alongside Elderson Echiejile, are the only surviving members from the 2009 squad that defeated Kenya in Nairobi in a must-win game to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, recalls the Nairobi situation and is ready to repeat the sweet history. “We are in the same situation now as we were then going to Nairobi. I just have it in my mind that it can be done, that we have done it before. “Yes, we will go out there on Tuesday night and do exactly ...

Barcelona star, Lionel Messi has warned that he does not want to be compared to Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, or anyone else. According to ESPN, Messi, who is the world’s best player having picked up the 2015 Ballon d’Or ahead of Ronaldo and his Barcelona teammate Neymar, is not keen to get involved in the debate over who is the best, and has insisted that he prefers to focus on his own game. “The press looks to compare among other things. All I want is to help my team to grow each season,” ESPN quotes Messi as telling Egyptian TV station MBC, in a report by Sport. “I don’t compare myself to Cristiano nor to anyone. I only try to think of me, of my team-mates and win games.” Messi will take on Ronaldo head-to-head in El Clasico next week and the forward claims that trying to win La Liga is always difficult for Barcelona when Real Madrid are around. “They [Real Madrid] have great players,” he added. “They have always had impressive stars and it’s one of the best teams in the world. “...

Arsenal’s mercurial midfielder, Mesut Ozil has demanded of the management of the London club that new signings be made in the summer ahead of the new season. According to reports in British media on Monday, the German midfielder believes the Gunners will need reinforcements if it is to compete with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City next term. “We know that it will not be easy and that we need reinforcements if we want next season to be on top here again,” Ozil told Welt am Sonntag . “It is again interesting to see who invests in who and how much the clubs do during the summer break.” Guardiola will take over as City boss for the start of next season, having agreed a three-year deal at the Etihad. And Ozil is in no doubt that the Spaniard will make an instant impact in England. “We know that it will not be easy and that we need reinforcements if we want next season to be on top here again. “He will be imprinting his football in England and people will be surprised.” “It is again interesti...

English media on Saturday lampooned Nigerian fans who trooped to the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna to watch the Super Eagles take on the Pharaohs of Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 qualifying match on Friday. Reports in top British tabloid, Daily Mail UK and Daily Mirror UK mocked Super Eagles fans that too many of them packed themselves into a stadium that was way too small for them. In a report titled ‘Nigeria Vs Egypt watched by 40,000 fans in 25,000 capacity stadium’, Mirror wrote, “A reported 40,000 spectators crammed into a 25,000 capacity stadium on Friday to see Nigeria take on Egypt in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. “Supporters were seen on the top of the scoreboard and floodlights as fans descended on the ground.” The Daily Mail had a similar report which also hinted at the seeming poor choice of Alex Iwobi after deciding to play for the Super Eagles of Nigeria rather than the Three Lions of England. “Arsenal star Alex Iwobi made his debut, despite a las...

Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi has vowed that the members of the team will fight against the Pharaohs of Egypt with all they have in the second leg of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 qualifying match in Alexandria on Tuesday even though it has more matches ahead should it lose. Mikel made this vow on Saturday after the team managed only a 1-1 draw against the Egyptians at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium. Chelsea FC of England ace Mikel Obi said the Eagles have to fight harder than they have ever done to snatch the three points at the Borg El-Arab Stadium in the Mediterranean coast. “It’s a massive battle that we are going for, and there should be no illusion about it. We have to face reality, and everyone has to give more than 100 per cent because we just have to qualify for the Cup of Nations,” said Obi, one of Nigeria’s outstanding players when they won the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa three years ago. Mmikel assures that there was no reason to panic following Friday’s...

Despite his heroics on the pitch, saving the Old Trafford team many times this tough season, Manchester United teenage sensation, Marcus Rashford has been banned by the management of the club from using Carrington dressing room like other A-team members. Although the young striker continued his outstanding start to his senior career with the Manchester derby winner, he is still banned from the first-team dressing room, reports Daily Mirror UK on Sunday. According to the report, hero Rashford isn’t allowed to change in the first-team dressing room at Manchester United’s training ground Rashford, who scored the winning goal against City in the Manchester derby at The Etihad Stadium last Sunday and has helped save United’s season with five goals in eight appearances in the last month, hasn’t yet earned the right to sit alongside the senior stars at the club’s Carrington complex. Tough Dutch boss van Gaal insists Rashford and other first team youngsters like Guillermo Varela, James Weir, J...

Jose Mourinho has reportedly signed a pre-contract agreement with Manchester United to take over as the new coach of the club this summer. The Portuguese coach has been linked with Manchester United ever since he was sacked by former club Chelsea in December, but has now signed a pre- contract agreement with Manchester United according to an exclusive report by top Spanish newspaper El País. According to the report Mourinho will be paid up to £15m if by June 1, 2016 the club refuses to employ him. “If United do not sign the final contract [with Mourinho] before 1 May, they must pay £5m; if by 1 June he’s still not signed, they shall pay another £10m. May is the key, because it’s the month in which the vast majority of the signings of players are closed and the plans formed.” Read the report. El País claim that the clause has been included because senior figures at Old Trafford, including Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton, are not entirely convinced that Mourinho is the right man...

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the merging of the National Sports Commission with the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development. The NSC is the Nigerian apex body responsible for regulating sports in the country. It is also headed by the Minister of Sports in Nigeria and it's origin dates as far back as 1910. Over the years, the commission has undergone a series of name changes and has existed as a separate body since it got the name NSC. Minister of the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development , Solomon Dalung on Thursday, March, 10 revealed that the president has ordered the merging of the NSC and the ministry. "President Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive for the merger of the National Sports Commission with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development ," Dalung wrote on Facebook. Dalung also disclosed that the president has ordered the scraping of the Office of the Director General of NSC, adding that the creation of the commission had no legal backing.

Bayern Munich fought back from two goals down to beat Juventus in extra time, dramatically progressing to the Champions League quarter-finals. With the tie poised at 2-2 after the first leg, Paul Pogba and Juan Cuadrado scored to put Juve in command. Robert Lewandowski’s header gave Bayern hope but Juve looked to have seen them off until Thomas Muller’s 90th-minute goal forced the match into extra time. And a buoyed Bayern finished in style through Thiago and Kingsley Coman. The hosts – who had dominated possession to little effect in normal time – played with more urgency after Muller’s lifeline, with the introduction of substitutes Coman and Thiago playing a key part in the turnaround. Juventus will not only have to come to terms with falling so close to the finishing line, but the pill will be even more bitter knowing that the player who inflicted the killer blow was Coman, a talented teenager on a long-term loan at Bayern from the Bianconeri. The 19-year-old Frenchman made three as...

The immediate past Super Eagles’ Coach, Sunday Oliseh, has claimed that the Nigeria Football Federation are still owing him N111 million. The amount covers medical expenses, match bonuses and allowances incurred during his six-month reign as the national team’s gaffer. Oliseh stated this in a letter addressed to the Secretary General of the NFF and made available to The Eagle Online on Tuesday. In the final breakdown, the gaffer is demanding the payment of $10,000 being the winning match bonus against Swaziland; daily allowance for nine days, which totaled $3,600; food for Chan Eagles at $3,700; flight ticket refund for Chan Camping in Pretoria, South Africa; Chan winning bonus and draw at $6,000; while his medical expenses is put at $11,200. Though, the former Super Eagles skipper has ordered his lawyers to withdraw a suit against the NFF, but he could drag them to the World football governing body, FIFA, if they fail to pay the money owed him. Oliseh, in his letter to the NFF, gave a...

What a pity as the foot ball legend goes public on his pain over the level of pilfering and theft in Nigeria for they can actually rob him of anything like money and other accessories but not his medal Newly appointed Flying Eagles coach, Emmanuel Amunike has revealed that his Olympics soccer gold medal from Atlanta’96 has been stolen. Amunike disclosed this to fifa.com adding that the medal was stolen from his house in Lagos. The former Golden Eaglets coach scored the winning goal for Nigeria in a 3-2 win over Argentina at the Atlanta’96 Olympics to become the first African country to win gold at the Olympics football event.

  Even though his team won at the Emirates Stadium, beating Arsenal 2-0 in their Champions League clash in London about a fortnight ago, Barcelona superstar, a worried Lionel Messi has warned his teammates to be wary of the British club. According to reports in the Daily Mail UK on Sunday, Lionel Messi has likened Arsenal’s style of play to Barcelona and warned his side their Champions League last-16 tie is far from over until after a good result from the second leg this new week. The Gunners trail 2-0 ahead of Wednesday night’s return leg at the Nou Camp, after Messi scored twice at the Emirates, but not only has he praised Arsenal, he believes the team has what it takes to overturn the deficit and progress to the quarter-finals. ‘Arsenal have players more than capable of scoring goals,’ he said. ‘We have put ourselves in a very good position to progress and to reach the quarter-finals but none of the players are thinking that the job is finished. ‘Of course we know th...

Former Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh is to face sports committee of the country’s House of Representatives to state his own side of his shock resignation, officials have disclosed. Oliseh quit as Nigeria coach just a month to two crucial AFCON qualifiers against Egypt, citing lack of support from his employers, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), as well as several violations of the contract he signed in July 2015. He will most certainly restate his very difficult working conditions while he was in charge of the Super Eagles. NFF officials are unhappy with Oliseh’s appearance before the country’s law makers, saying it is a major distraction as they are preparing to face Egypt later this month.

In continued calculated moves by the new board of the world soccer governing body, FIFA to erase its erstwhile president, Sepp Blatter from football history, the Swiss has been left out of the body’s birthday wishes to football stakeholders across the world today. According to reports in The Sun UK and attendant posts by FIFA on its official Twitter handle on Thursday, Blatter was not mentioned in birthday wishes tweeted even though today is expected to be a memorable day for him as he turns 80 years old. This follows the almost non-existent presence of the former most powerful football administrator in the world from FIFA’s newly opened football museum just days before the presidential election in February. Blatter was curiously missing from the museum project that he had initiated before leaving office with only one portrait of him referring to his tenure as FIFA president and nothing more. The museum was built to display and document important football activities in the last century...

Argentine striker and one of the highest paid players in the English Premier League, Sergio Aguero has confirmed that he will leave the Etihad Stadium of Manchester City in two years. According to The Sun UK, Aguero revealed that he would not renew is his contract with the club which will have outgoing Bayern Munchen manager, Pep Guardiola as coach at the time (all things being equal). Aguero, who has always said he wanted to return to boyhood club, Independiente before the end of his playing days, says his time at City will be up by summer of 2018. The Argentina international was quoted as telling radio station, El Rojo En La Uno, that he has ignored reports of him signing a contract extension because he was actually headed back home. “In the last few months a lot of things have been said about a new contract, but I didn’t pay any attention. “It’s clear to me that when my contract ends, after the World Cup [Russia 2018], I’m going to Independiente. My family knows it, I will return as...