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Taiwo joins Turkish club

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Out-of-favour Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo has completed his move to Turkish side Bursaspor from AC Milan. Taiwo, who played on loan at Ukrainian club Dynamo Kiev last season, passed a medical before finalising his three-year contract on Saturday. The 28-year-old joined Milan from Marseille in the summer of 2011, but struggled for a regular first-team […]

CHAN: Nigeria thrash Ivory Coast 4-1, seal a place in the finals in South Africa

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Morocco shocked title-holders Tunisia and Nigeria overpowered Ivory Coast in 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers. A brace from star midfielder Sunday Mba helped Nigeria trounce nine-man Ivory Coast 4-1 in Kaduna and virtually seal a place in the finals for the first time. Morocco are equally well-placed to compete in South Africa next January […]

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi owed five months’ salary (Someone in NFF has embezzled his salary)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, July 6th, 2013

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport, Lagos Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has not been paid since he led the Super Eagles to a third Africa Cup of Nations title five months ago. However, the ex-Super Eagles captain has not made an official complaint. And the Nigerian Football Federation has told BBC Sport that the situation is […]

FIFA bans Cameroon from international football

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, July 6th, 2013

The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) says it does not understand why the country has been banned from all football activity by Fifa. On Thursday, Fifa suspended Cameroon “on account of government interference” in the Fecafoot elections in June. “It is a big surprise; I don’t see any government intervention in what happened,” Fecafoot vice president […]

Amaechi names N4.3bn college after Yobo

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, Soccer, Sports, State News, Top Stories Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

RIVERS State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has named a street and a N4.3bn football college after Super Eagles captain and Fenerbahce defender, Joseph Yobo. Amaechi named the street leading to Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state after Yobo to honour the Eagles star for leading the national team to victorious outing […]

My advice to Keshi -Owolabi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, July 1st, 2013

By EMMA NJOKU Ex-international, Felix Owolabi (MON), has advised Coach Stephen Keshi to go and study the tapes of Nigeria’s match against Ivory Coast and Mali at the last Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa, insisting that the Super Eagles’ gaffer should pick his best squad from the players that featured in those two […]

Thompson Oliha’s widow reveals husband’s unfulfilled wish

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, July 1st, 2013

llorin – The wife of the late Thompson Oliha, Iris, said her husband had wished to live in the house promised the winning 1994 class of the Super Eagles. The bereaved wife in Ilorin in tears said that her late husband wished that he would be alive to take possession of the house promised the […]

Football fans urge Eagles to learn from Brazil’s humiliation of Spain

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, July 1st, 2013

Abakaliki – Football fans in Ebonyi have called on the Super Eagles to learn from the lessons of Brazil’s humiliation of Spain in the finals at the just-concluded FIFA Confederations Cup. The fans were reacting to the team’s 3-0 spanking of Spain in the match played on Sunday, which has made Brazil the favourite for […]

Forget Yobo, Osaze, Kojo tells Keshi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, June 30th, 2013

By Tony Ubani Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi’s olive branch to out of favour Osaze Odemwingie and captain Joseph Yobo to rejoin the national team has hit a sour note with former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Kojo Williams telling him to drop the idea. Keshi should forget about recalling Osaze and Yobo. […]

Eagles need a foreign coach – Kojo

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

BY JOHN EGBOKHAN Kojo Williams, a former chairman of the Nigeria Football association (NFA) has blamed the Super Eagles technical crew headed by Stephen Keshi for the ouster of the national team from the ongoing FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. The African champions, defeated Tahiti 6-1 in their opening match but went on to suffer […]