Author: Brila

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.

Sered Slovakia and Nigerian goalkeeper Mathew Yakubu has expressed delight in his inclusion in Nigeria’s coach Gernot Rohr’s list of 25 players called up for next month’s international friendlies against the Ivory Coast and Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles. 

President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinick has stated that the preparation is going on well and that the Football Federation have their plan which is to blood more youngsters for the Super Eagles international friendlies against Civ and Tunisia.