Author: Brila

Nigeria Wrestling Federation President, Daniel Igali has sought after the consent of the sports minister Sunday Dare to be a member of the Bureau of the united world wrestling.

Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has declared there will be no place at the renovated National Stadium in Surulere for shop owners, vendors and proprietors of joints who were ejected and whose structures were demolished in the course of renovating the stadium.

Special Adviser to the Honourable Minister of Youths and Sports in Nigeria Mary Onyali has stated that the Sports Minister is open to helping the 34 Sports Federations in Nigeria attain the new line of direction where sports will be run as a thorough business model.

Veteran Nigeria Professional Football League manager Zachary Baraje has described the administrative structure in Nigerian league football as immature with the consistent annual mass drift of players and coaches among clubs in the different tiers of the league.

Kogi united chairman Abdul Sule has called on league organizers in the different strata of league football in Nigeria to structure the leagues better in order to enhance the attractiveness of the leagues to potential sponsors.

Former Nigeria national team goalkeeper Joseph Dosu has urged Super Eagles handler, Gernot Rohr, to hand the three invited shot-stoppers game time when the team file out in next month’s international friendlies against Cote d’Ivoire and Tunisia in the bid to seek a lasting solution to the national team goalkeeping debacle.

Ex International Ike Shorunmu has hailed Coach Gernot Rohr for bringing in Dele Alampasu and Matthew Yakubu to the Eagles squad to take on Tunisia and Côte d’Ivoire next month.

Manu Garba has described the inclusion of Golden Eaglets Captain Tijani Samson into the squad of the Super Eagles is a good omen for the younger generation of Nigerian footballers.

Former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo has commended the composition of players invited for October’s double international tourney against Civ and Tunisia with the inclusion of a number of burgeoning youngsters. 

Nigeria’s age-grade coach Manu Garba has expressed mixed feelings on the recent inclusion of some new players in the list of 25 players called up by Nigeria’s coach Gernot Rohr ahead of next month’s international friendlies against CIV and Tunisia.