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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Tornadoes To Name New Head Coach On Friday

The management of Niger Tornadoes Football Club of Minna would name a new Head Coach for the Minna based club ahead of the 2014/2015 season on Friday.

Ismaila Mabo, former Super Falcons head coach has backed coach Edwin Okon over his confidence in the Nigeria Women Premier League players presently in the team’s camp for the 2015 All Africa Games and 2016 Olympic Games qualifiers.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Mikel Obi required a minor surgery on his knee in order to be match fit, and he is not expected to return to action until April.

Super Falcons’ forward, Asisat Oshoala is optimistic her teammates will do the nation proud to qualify for the All Africa Games and the Olympic Games.

After the Hammers’ interest cooled, Israeli side Hapoel Tel-Aviv stepped in and went as far as announcing his signing on Twitter, before that deal also fell through.

Babagana Emerge As Borno FA Supremo

A new board for the Borno state football association was elected at the association’s congress held yesterday at the conference hall of the state football association in the Elkanemi warrior’s sports centre.

Watford striker, Odion Ighalo is reportedly on Newcastle United’s radar with his present rich run of goal scoring form at the Championship side.

Greg Keenan, the CEO of Aspire Management and worldwide representative of Lukman Haruna, has exclusively informed SL10.ng that his client has agreed terms with Hoverla Uzhhorod.

Veteran Nigeria Premier League coach, Maurice Cooreman, has joined Nigeria National League side, Ikorodu FC.

Fit again Nigeria international, Ifeanyi Chiejine has stated that she's ready to make a comeback to the national team.

Confluence Queens FC will play a friendly match against Nasarawa Amazons on Wednesday 4th March, at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja, as part of preparation for the 2014/15 Nigeria Women Premier League season.

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles will depart for the African Youth Championship in Senegal on Wednesday, officials have announced.

The LMC inspection team led by Barrister Ifeanyi Dike visited the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium, home ground of Dolphins Football Club yesterday.

Samson Siasia has said that he has not requested for the services of former Super Eagles’ Assistant Coach Sylvanus Okpala to come and join his technical crew.

According to reports in Turkey, Fenerbahce coach Ismail Kartal is bothered by Emmanuel Emenike’s poor form in front of goal plus his relationship with fans, and he is planning to have a tête-à-tête with the striker.

SS Lazio midfielder Eddy Onazi says he is thankful to God for his side’s 3-0 victory over Sassuolo over the weekend even though he wasn’t involved in the encounter.

Former Shooting Stars goalkeeper, Dele Ajiboye has joined newly promoted Kwara United ahead of the new Nigeria Professional Football League season due to get underway this weekend.

South African Football Association (SAFA) have informed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) of the body’s willingness to play an international friendly on March 29th at a yet-to-be-decided venue.

Veteran football administrator, Prince Isidore Oduah has taken a swipe at former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi for calling the new contract offer by the Nigeria Football Federation “a slave contract.”

Chairman of two-time CAF Champions League winners Enyimba International FC, Felix Anyansi-Agwu on Monday, said the club was on course to winning its third CAF Champions League title.

Real Madrid missed the opportunity to open up a four – point gap at the top of the La Liga standings after they could only manage a 1 -1 draw with visiting Villarreal on Sunday night.

Your career has been on the high since you move to Watford, what’s the secret?

Nigeria international midfielder John Ogu admits that he misses the national team setup and would like to return to the team if given the opportunity.

CAF Champions League Pre- Round Results, 1st Round Fixtures

CAF Champions League Preliminary-Round, Second-Leg Results at the weekend:

Former Sharks FC of Port Harcourt first choice goal keeper, Isah Danladi has expressed joy at his recent move from Port Harcourt to Akure.

Ahead of the start of the MLS regular season, Seattle Sounders tackled Sporting Kansas City in a friendly on Sunday morning.

Edward Ofere found the back of net on his debut for Inverness who fell 2-1 at Motherwell on Saturday.

Nigeria midfielder Nurudeen Orelesi was in action for Metalurh Zaporizhya who posted a 1-0 win over an under-performing Hoverla side at the Stadion Avanhard in the Ukrainian Premier League on Sunday.

FK Minsk defensive midfielder has stated that the team is ready to compete favourably in the 2015 Belarus Women Premier League season.

Emma Addo, the agent to out of contract Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has confirmed that his client won't be signing the new contract offered to him by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Out-of-contract Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has once again blasted the Nigeria Football Federation, accusing them of thinking they are doing him a favour.

Super Falcons star Asisat Oshoala was impressive in a 90 minutes action as Liverpool Ladies suffered a 1-0 defeat to Yeovil Town Ladies on Sunday afternoon at the Select Security Stadium.

Warri Wolves will battle Ethiopian club Dedebit SC in the first round of CAF Confederation Cup.

Ahead of their All Africa Games qualifiers against Mali, the chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League, Dilichukwu Onyedinma has given a cash gift of N100,000 to the Super Falcons players .

March 7th
1. Heartland vs Kano Pillars

Kogi United survived an early scare to thrash non league team Future Dreams in a warm up match played on Sunday at the Lokoja Confluence Stadium.

The proposed camping of the Flying Eagles in The Gambia has been shelved, and the team will now travel directly from Nigeria to Senegal for the Africa Youth Championship (AYC), SL10.ng has learnt.

Swedish outfit, Falkenberg FF have announced the signing of Hakeem Araba.

Former Golden Eaglets attacking midfielder Rabiu Ibrahim scored his first goal for Slovak club AS Trencin on Saturday as they beat FK Dukla Banska Bystrica 2-0.

Super Eagles forward, Osaguona Ighodaro continued his impressive display for his Moroccan club Raja Casablanca as he scored in a 2-2 draw at Congo’s Diables Noire in a CAF Champions League game on Sunday.

Lobi Stars wrapped up an easy 3-0 in a friendly game against Nasarawa United on Friday at the Apa Aku Stadium in Makurdi.

Nigeria National League Campaigners Supreme Court FC of Abuja have sent strong notice to would-be opponents ahead of kick off of 2014/2015 football season with 5-0 spanking of an Abuja-based side Future Stars in friendly match at the weekend.

Pillars Book Morocco Ticket, As Dolphins Face Club Africain

Nigeria champions Kano Pillars will play FC Moghreb Tetouan of Morocco in the first round proper of this year’s CAF Champions League competition.

Coach Samson Siasia has warned his Olympic Team players who featured for their clubs during African club competition matches during the weekend to report to camp in Abuja latest by Monday.

Member of the NFF Executive Committee and former chairman of the Technical and Development Committee, Barrister Chris Green is at the head of a 19–man contingent traveling to the United Kingdom on Monday for a two –week capacity building exercise, at the instance of Nigeria Football Federation,

Super Eagles duo of Victor Moses and Sone Aluko were in action at opposing ends as Stoke City beat Hull City 1-0 on Saturday thanks to substitute Peter Crouch's seventh Premier League goal of the season.

As Nigerian clubs playing on the continent target a group stage appearance, the first hurdle has been crossed yet the battle seem to have just started.

The League Management Company has endorsed the Kwara Stadium to host Nigeria Professional Football League matches.

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Lagos Chapter, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, to take a clear stand on the engagement and status of Coach Stephen Keshi and save the Nigerian public the agony of having frequently to discuss him as the main issue of the nation’s football rather than the development and progress of the game.

Lagos SWAN made the call in reaction to a statement by the NFF accusing a section of the media of having lied in a report in which Keshi was quoted to have expressed some displeasure with the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, and the Football House.

Reacting in a statement titled “Enough is enough,” Lagos SWAN advised the NFF not to, in any way, drag the sports media into whatever difficulties it may be having with Keshi but to boldly express the authority of its mandate as the governing body of Nigerian football to steer the ship of the federation in line with its vision, programmes and the expectations of the public on Nigerian football.

The statement said: “First of all, we take exception to the statement of the NFF accusing a section of the sporting press of having lied or exaggerated the statement credited to Keshi. For the avoidance of doubt, Keshi spoke in a live interview which recordings are available and he was reported correctly. We therefore stand by the veracity and integrity of that particular report.

“However, as responsible partners, we will make no further issues of this unfair attack on the sporting media. We will rather encourage the NFF to take full possession of its mandate as the governor of our football to be decisive on issues to enable it discharge its duties in line with its vision and programmes to meet the expectations of Nigerian football lovers.

“We wish to point out that the controversies and complexities surrounding Keshi’s engagement have lingered for too long. We cannot continue to remain in one spot and keep dancing around. After the agony of not being at the AFCON 2015, the NFF and Keshi should save us the further agony of having to be discussing him daily as the substance of our football rather than the team. We wish also to appeal to any powers closely or remotely constraining the freedom and workings of the NFF to please consider the greater interest of Nigerian football so that we can make progress. Enough is enough

“Lastly, while we are becoming used to institutions unduly passing the blame of systems failure on the press, we wish to restate that we will continue to do our job as the sports media, to promote sports, the athletes and institutions, and challenge excesses and inadequacies, without fear or favour, for the good of the game and progress of our nation.”