Keshi drops Mikel, lists injured Yobo

May 18, 2012  by Kazeem Busari 15 Comments Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has unexpectedly left out Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi and other English Premier League players, except for Wigan’s Victor Moses, out of the team that will face Namibia, Malawi and Rwanda in the 2014 World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers […]

World/Nations Cup qualifiers – Keshi drops Aiyegbeni

Aiyegbeni Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Relegated Blackburn Rovers’ striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, might not be a part of the foreign-based players expected to make the list of the Super Eagles’ team that would prosecute the World and Nations Cup qualifiers against Namibia and Rwanda billed for next month at the U.J […]

NFF earmarks N100m for FA Cup

In its determination to rebrand football in the country, the Nigerian soccer governing body, NFF, has raised the level of sponsorship of the FA Cup competition, earmarking a whopping N100 million to prosecute this year’s tournament and perhaps return the glamour associated with the oldest football competition in Nigeria. Daily Sunsports scooped that the staggering […]

Abdul-Rashid Omo Yekini: An ‘Own’ Goal – By Prince Charles Dickson

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies–Elie Wiesel I have waited for all to pour in the tributes, lamentations, all the ‘had I know’, ifs and how come. Plenty lies, praise, buck-passing and as usual the good morning at night of government and its officials. All the half-truths, propaganda and truth that we […]

NFF to name Under-17 tournament after Yekini

May 13, 2012 by Success Nwogu 24 Comments President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, on Saturday said the NFF would name the Under-17 tournament after the late Super Eagles’ striker, Rasheed Yekini. Speaking during Yekini’s fidau prayer at Ira, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Maigari who later left for an […]

Liberia FA shuns Siasia, names Smith new national coach

Liberia Football Association has shunned former Eagles’ handler, Samson Siasia for the post of its national team coach, as it has appointed Kaetu Smith to coach the Lone Star. The Liberian replaces Italy’s Roberto Landi, who was dismissed by the FA in February. Smith, last coached in Liberia in the 1990s, leading both Baccus Marines […]

FIFA Ranking: Eagles continue free fall

By Ben Efe Nigeria’s free fall in the FIFA rankings continued for the month of May as the country dropped three places down to the 63rd position. However, Nigerian football enthusiasts are hopeful that Nigeria  will climb back to world reckoning, as the Eagles tackled 36th placed Peru in a friendly on May 23. In 1994 the […]

FIFA, Ghana mourn Yekini

World football governing body, FIFA, and the Ghana Football Association have sent condolence messages to Nigeria on the death of a former Africa Footballer of the Year, Rashidi Yekini. The football icon died on Friday in Oshogbo, Osun State. FIFA President Sepp Blatter, in a letter addressed to the Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday, said […]

Oyo floats endowment fund for Yekini’s children

The Oyo State government has set up an endowment fund for children of the late Nigerian ex-international, Rashidi Yekini. This was made known yesterday after the state executive council meeting by the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Hon Dapo Lam-Adesina. According to him, the endowment fund, which will be strictly for the children of the […]

Yekini was beaten, chained hand and leg and kidnapped by his family

The late Yekini   THE LATE Rashidi Yekini’s lawyer and neighbours have asked for a probe into the circumstances leading to the death of the ex-World Cup star. Nigeria’s all-time leading scorer Yekini died on Friday and he was buried the following day in his home town of Iraa in Kwara State. However, Yekini’s lawyer […]

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