ANOTHER MIRACLE Nigerian Super Eagles’ captain, Nwankwo Kanu, is in a dreamland hoping to wake up after the English FA Cup final on Saturday. He said he had gone through several miracles in his chequered career, going through the surgeon’s blade and leading an unknown crop of players to lift the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. |
Adamu rescues Dream Team Nigeria's national Under-23 football team, the Dream Team IV, were able to leave for Malasia on Wednesday for an 8 nation invitational tournament after a finance induced delay. |
Pay ME... or I quit Emmanuel Adebayor has threatened to throw Arsenal into full-blown crisis by following Mathieu Flamini and Alexander Hleb out of the door, unless they make him into one of the Premier League's top earners. |
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Man U are Premiership champs again Manchester United pipped rivals, Chelsea to clinch their 17th title triumph with victory at Wigan. Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring for United from the spot, after 33 minutes following Emmerson Boyce's foul on fit-again Wayne Rooney. |
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Keep to rules, Singabele tasks NFL as season ends A Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Ministry of Sports, Dr. Peter Singabele, has said that the league would end honourably if the board of the Nigeria Football League (NFL) would put their feet down and follow the laid down rules in the two remaining matches of the season. |
At 70 Onigbinde says.... I' m not tired Life begins at 40, many Nigerians say, but to Africa’s foremost football aficionado, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, who turned 70 last Saturday, life has just begun. The man says he is still ready to serve Nigeria, until his limbs are too weak to move. |
Man U face Hammers’ hurdle Only two more games are left before it is good night to the Premiership season. But for league leaders, Manchester United and their eternal challengers Chelsea, the battle for the soul of the league has just begun. |
Beijing Olympics: WE DON’T NEED MIKEL Those calling for the inclusion of Chelsea of England midfielder, John Mikel Obi in the Dream Team IV squad to the Beijing Olympics had better forget it. |
Royal rumble at Stamford Bridge Chelsea and Manchester United are at each other’s throat at Stamford Bridge looking for vital points to lift the season’s trophy. It promises to be a thriller! |
REBUILD EAGLES Nigerian-born Montpellier Sports Club of France midfielder, Egwuatu Oliseh has charged Super Eagles new Head Coach, Shuaibu Amodu to rebuild the team. |
Siasia finally nails Mikel Under-23 national squad, the Dream Team IV Coach, Samson Siasia, has issued an emphatic declaration that Chelsea whiz kid, John Mikel Obi, would not be part of the squad to the Olympic Games in August. |
Falconets in Lionesses’ den Nigeria’s Under-19 female football team, the Falconets, face a daunting task this afternoon in Yaounde when they take on their Cameroonian counterparts in an African qualifier for the FIFA Under-19 Women’s Championship holding in Chile later in the year. |
Prove yourself, Onigbinde tells Amodu Erstwhile Super Eagles’ coach, Chief Adeboye Onigbinde, has thrown his weight behind the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), stating that their last week’s 2010 World Cup target for the Eagles coaching crew was every inch in order. |