Author: Brila

Board member of the Nigeria Football Federation Hon. Yahaya Kwande has urged fringe players of the Nigeria national team to grab the opportunities before them ahead of the Super Eagles trip to trade tackles with Cape Verde in a world cup qualifying tie after the departure of UK-based players due to Covid-19 protocol.

Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho has backed his colleagues in the national team to step up and get the job done in faraway Cape Verde in his absence.

Flora  Ugwunwa successfully defended her Paralympic crown, drawing the curtains on Team Nigeria’s participation at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, winning gold in the women’s F54 Javelin event on Saturday.

Nasarawa united player, and one of the long-serving members of the solid miners, Emmanuel Makama is set to end his fifteen years relationship with the club.

AC Omonia of Cyprus and Super Eagles right back Shehu Abdullahi has stated that the Nigeria senior national team will be out against Liberia with the mind to get their world cup qualification group stage sorted as quick as possible so as to ease whatever form of pressure that comes with winning the qualifying group.

Nantes winger Moses Simon has stated that the efforts of the Super Eagles will yield positive results when they square up against their Liberian counterpart to kick start the team’s world cup qualification quest on Friday.

Paderborn defender Jamilu Collins has stated that the Nigeria men senior national team are relaxed and excited ahead of their first world cup qualifying encounter for the Qatar 2022 world cup with an opener against the Leone stars of Liberia.

Former assistant coach of Nigeria’s Men basketball national team Mohammed Abdulrahman has stated that the early exit of Nigeria at the ongoing Afrobasket tournament in Kigali, Rwanda should serve valuable lessons to the D’Tigers after been drawn against Uganda, Mali, and Cape Verde for the FIBA 2023 world cup qualifiers.

Former assistant national team coach of Nigeria’s basketball team Sanni Ahmed has attributed Nigeria’s Afrobasket exit partly to coach Mike Brown who limited his use of players majorly to 8 out of the twelve.

Kenneth Omeruo has stated that he wants to experience another quick world cup qualification ahead of the Super Eagles commencement of the 2022 world cup qualifiers with the first game in Lagos against Liberia.