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Mutiu Adepoju, Former Super Eagles player and member of the NFF Technical and development committee has stated that the success of the just concluded NPFL U15-promise will certainly make a lot easier the coaching and recruitment of players into the age grade national teams in Nigeria. Adepoju in a chat with www.brila.net said continuity and proper monitoring of these youth team players at their various clubs will translate to early exposure and competitiveness from their early years which thus improves the quality of players making the age grade national teams. He added that with the continuity of the U-15 league…

Nigerian female wrestler and Gold medalist at the just concluded African wrestling championship in Morocco Odunayo Adekuoroye has stated that the 2017 wrestling tourney in Marrakesh is one of Nigeria’s best after all the 8 female wrestlers made it to the final winning 6 gold and 2 silver medals at the end of the championship. Adekuoroye in a chat with www.brila.net said the performance is an indication of the quality of wrestlers in Nigeria and that Nigeria is strong enough to compete any any level with any one in the world. She added that the highly ranked world wrestlers enjoy…

Twitter fun never ends in football so does the troll as far as social media is concerned. Twitter has taken the trolls to another level and the Social Media handler of Bayern Munich is having none of that and gave an epic response. Last month saw the Spanish giants beat the Bavarians 6-3 on aggregate over two legs with Ronaldo stealing the show and setting a new European goal record; becoming the first player to reach 100goals in European competitions. https://twitter.com/FCBayernUS/status/859139292123324418

Former Super Eagles and AS Racines of Lagos coach Victor Agali has urged Manchester city striker Kelechi Ihenacho to press for a move away from City ahead of next season so as to get himself actively involved fully next season. Agali speaking on City’s proposed deal that could see Iheanacho move in a player plus cash deal to Borussia Dortmund said Iheanacho stand to benefit if the deal materialise. He added that it is very imperative for the 2013 U17 world cup winner to be playing and that the Bundesliga experience with Borussia Dortmund will aid Iheanachor’s development with less…

Forms for the forthcoming National Federations Elections are now available to the public. Interested contestants into the National Sports Federations can get the forms from the secretariat of the various federations, the Nigeria Olympic Committee or the various Zonal headquarters. The forms can be obtained free of charge at any of the mentioned designations. According to the timetable released by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, completed forms must reach the Ministry on or before May 9, 2017 for verification. The elections of Zonal and National representatives into the Sports Federations hold on May 30, 2017 in Abuja.

The President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Engineer Emeka Onyeama is happy with the success recorded so far by the present board in taking the sport back to schools across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Engineer Onyeama made this known while restating his board’s commitment to make the sport popular among Nigerians and have a sustainable development in the future growth of the game in the country. “When we came on board, our focus was how to institutionalize the game of cricket in Nigeria and popularize the game which has never been before.” He expressed satisfaction with…

Media officer of Wikki tourist, Nasiru Abdullahi Kobi in a press release on behalf of the club has categorically debunk news linking the club to former coach of rangers Imama. He said, “The attention of Wikki Tourist Fc management has been drawn to an online publication on the club’s plan to employ former Rangers Coach Imama Amapakabo as the new technical adviser of the club”. “We wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from that publication and to also states that wikki tourists has never contacted Imama or anybody on his behalf” “As a matter of fact the club has already shotlisted…

The vice president of the athletics federation of Nigeria Tunde Abdulkareem has revealed to sports radio 88.9 Brila FM that he has contemplated resigning his position as vice president of the AFN if not for the fact that his action will deprive his geo-political zone a seat in the board of AFN. He said his earlier decision was as a result of the lack of progress in AFN for nearly eight years. Tunde however said ,he later discovered that the lack of progress in Nigeria’s track and field is the lack of proper funding and not the administrators. He said…

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President of the cricket federation of Nigeria Emeka Onyeama has revealed to Brila.net that the federation is trying to convince the expatriate community in the country to come join the cricket national team. He said this became necessary in other to make the senior national team strong and also to make other nationals who have stayed in the country for long to have a sense of belonging that Nigeria is their second home. Pakistani and Indian nationals are always seen watching the national team whenever they are in camp preparing for a major tournament yet fail to express interest in…