Author: Brila

Rivers United goalkeeper Theo Afelokhai has insisted that experience will play a major role amongst the newly invited Super Eagles goalkeepers ahead of the International friendlies scheduled for October.

NFF President Amaju Pinnick has stated that he is not ruling out a bid for the top seat at the Confederation of Africa Football.

Coach of Nigeria’s women wrestling national team Akuh Purity has welcomed the expectation of Nigeria’s Youths and Sports Minister Sunday Dare following the minister’s declaration tipping the Nigeria Wrestling Federation to achieve a medal haul at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic games in Japan.

Newly signed Rivers united goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai has downplayed the huge expectation on the Port Harcourt based side to win a title after going on a spending spree with a recruitment drive of some of the biggest legs in the Nigeria Professional Football League ahead of the next football league season.

Former Nigeria international and Youth team coach Nduka Ugbade has expressed fulfillment at playing a key role alongside Coach Manu Garba in building the nucleus of the Nigeria senior national team with the current Eagles team saturated with players who have at one point or the other played under the coaches.

Granada Cf and Super Eagles midfielder, Ramon Azeez may be called upon to field in for injured Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi ahead of October friendlies.

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.