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Oliseh picks 23 Eagles for African Nations Championship:

22/5/2016

Head Coach Sunday Oliseh

Head Coach Sunday Oliseh has released the list of 23 players of the Home Based Super Eagles team who will seek to do Nigeria proud by winning the African Nations Championship title in Rwanda.

Goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa, defenders Austin Oboroakpo and Chima Akas, Olympic Team midfielders Usman Mohammed and Yaro Bature and forward Chisom Chikatara headline a list that also includes Enyimba FC’s skillful winger Ezekiel Bassey, former junior international Ifeanyi Mathew and the Sunshine Stars’ trio of Paul Onobi, Prince Aggrey and Tunde Adeniji.

Former junior international goalkeeper Femi Thomas, Shooting Stars’ central defender Jamiu Alimi and former Supersand Eagles’ ace Bartholomew Ibenegbu have also been included.

The team, alongside technical and backroom staff, flew out of the country on Saturday afternoon to Cape Town, South Africa, where a 10 –day pre-Championship training camp has been arranged, alongside two friendly games against fellow Rwanda –bound Angola and Cote d’Ivoire on January 6 and 11 respectively. Oliseh arrived South Africa ahead of the delegation.

Nigeria’s CHAN Eagles finished third at the 3rd African Nations Championship held in South Africa in 2014, and Sunday Oliseh’s invigorated squad aims to win the Cup in Rwanda on February 7.

The team will campaign in Group C of this year’s championship alongside 2011 winners Tunisia, Niger Republic and Guinea, with matches to be played at the Stade Regional Nyamirambo, Kigali.

NIGERIA’S SQUAD FOR CHAN:

Goalkeepers: Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Sunshine Stars); Olufemi Thomas (Enyimba FC); Okiemute Odah (Warri Wolves)

Defenders: Austin Oboroakpo (Abia Warriors); Kalu Orji Okogbue (Enugu Rangers); Jamiu Alimi (Shooting Stars); Mathew Etim (Enugu Rangers); Chima Akas (Sharks FC); Stephen Eze (Sunshine Stars); Christopher Madaki Maichibi (Giwa FC); Samson Gbadebo (Lobi Stars)

Midfielders: Ifeanyi Mathew (El-Kanemi Warriors); Paul Onobi (Sunshine Stars); Usman Mohammed (FC Taraba); Yaro Bature (Nasarawa United); Bartholomew Ibenegbu (Warri Wolves); Ibrahim Attah Salau (Shooting Stars)

Forwards: Osas Okoro (Enugu Rangers); Ezekiel Bassey (Enyimba FC); Tunde Adeniji (Sunshine Stars); Bright Onyedikachi (FC IfeanyiUbah); Chisom Chikatara (Abia Warriors); Prince Aggrey (Sunshine Stars)

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Nigeria’s Premier National 5 A-side Tournament Holds In Lagos:

22/5/2016

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4The National Finals of the F5WC Tournament comes up on January the 15th-16th 2016 at the Campos Mini Stadium on Lagos Island.

16 teams of 7 each from different parts of Nigeria will converge on Lagos for two days of football hostilities at the end of which the last ream standing will get a chance to represent Nigeria at the F5WC Global tournament in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2016.

F5WC Nationals will be played in a round robin format as the 16 finalist have been drawn into 4 groups of 4 teams each with the top 2 teams qualifying for the Quater-finals.

The eventual winners will also get a giant trophy, medals and the sum of 1.5million Naira from the main Sponsors of the tournament, Olympic Milk.

Olympic milk have also promised to take one lucky fan on an all expenses paid trip to the Etihad to watch a Manchester City FC home game. The MVP and Highest Goal Scorer at the National Finals in Lagos will also get the experience of a lifetime when they get a chance to also watch Stars our own Kelechi Iheanacho and Other Man City Stars in Action at the Etihad Stadium, home of Manchester City.

Meanwhile The Senior Special Assistant to the governor of Lagos State On Sports Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye has also revealed that the Lagos State Government through his office has decided to Support the tournament as it meets with the plans by the State Government to use Sports as a veritable tool for youth empowerment.

Managing Director of Fivesports, Organisers of the Football 5’s Tournament, Bayo Akande has called on Lagosians to come out in large numbers to witness a well packed event, with lots of giveaways spiced with entertainment and games for the fans. Akande informed that plans have been put in place for football lovers to enjoy the beautiful game in a conducive atmosphere with adequate security.

Group A,
Kakuri Fc (Kaduna)
De Royal Fc (Lagos)
Fc Hearts (Kano)
Gladiators (Rivers)

Group B,
MHB Fc (Kaduna)
MFM Region 70 (Lagos)
Rebel Athletic Fc (Lagos)
Remo football academy (ogun)

Group C
Mutunchi Fc (Kaduna)
AGO Fc (Ogun)
Zico Fc (Rivers)
Tao Fc (Lagos)

Group D
Golden Lions Fc (Lagos)
Dabo Fc (Kano)
Awolowo FA (Lagos)
FIN Academy (Abuja)

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Ogun State Launches Schools Sports Festival:

22/5/2016

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The Ogun State Government is set to bring back the glorious days of yesteryears in sports, following the launch of the Ogun State Schools Sports Festival (OGSSFEST) in Abeokuta last week (Dec 30, 2015).

Speaking at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the government and the consultants on the project, Youth and Sports Commissioner, Hon. Moroof Afolabi Afuwape said the Amosu administration was committed to making the state “the factory of sports stars in Nigeria”.

“The administration has upgraded the sport infrastructure in the state to first-class status and no state in Nigeria boasts of what we have at our stadiums and we have the technocrats. What remains for us is to bring in the private sector to drive first-class competitions. The GT Principals Cup and OGSSFEST are the pioneering efforts in this regard,” he said.

The commissioner said the government believes success in sports is connected to age and that sports super stars needed to be caught and nurtured very young.

“It is of no use discovering a football, tennis or athletics star in his or her late 20s. Most sports thrive on the ‘catch them young’ and now that sports is big business, we also see OGSSFEST as a way of fighting crime and unemployment in the land,” he explained.

Afuwape called on corporate organizations and philanthropists to embrace OGSSFEST “not just as corporate social responsibility but in order to reap heaps of marketing advantages as over 4,000 kids will participate in the yearly competition.”

In his response, the Managing Director of Newswatch Times Magazine, Dr. Bolu John Folayan, said the competition would be the first of its kind in Nigeria and perhaps in Africa.

He said a consortium of sports marketing and sports media experts are coming together to complement the state government’s initiative, not just to discover the stars of tomorrow but to also nurture them to stardom and make them financially self-sustaining.

Dr. Folayan commended the Amosu administration on the initiative and expressed confidence that the festival would fulfill its objectives.

Eight sports – athletics, table tennis, football, handball, basketball, scrabble, chess and volleyball – will be featured in the maiden edition of the competition. Preliminaries will begin in March and run through zonal and divisional contests in May-June while the four-day grand finale will take place in November.

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