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Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports, Chief Obinna Ogba and NFF President Amaju Pinnick have pumped up the spirit of the Super Eagles ahead of Sunday’s 2018 African Nations Championship clash with Angola in Tangier.   Dalung, Ogba and Pinnick spoke during a visit to the camp of the Eagles. Nigeria finished top of Group C and take on Group D runners –up Angola at the Stade Ibn Batouta in the third quarter –final on Sunday evening.   Dalung said: “I want to appreciate you for all that you have done so far. Nigerians are very happy with you and now we have hope that the future of our football is bright. “Our President is a sports loving President and he is following everything that is going on here. I can tell you honestly that he is waiting eagerly to receive you after this tournament must have ended and you have won the trophy. Always remember that you are carrying the hopes a...

Now this worries me.  You have a ready made host,  a man willing to drop his cash and host, yet you are out there toasting and begging the Kano state governor who has shown no willingness to host.  We heard from a very reliable source,  that the letter from the NFF is yet to get to the governor who has been out of town for sometime now. We hear too that the Kaduna Stadium is undergoing renovation and suddenly,  someone is suggesting Katsina. Why are we like this? The whole reason behind getting a state governor to host is understandable, yes we know the booties that are there to share but when are we going to change?  Why must we as a Nation allow our personal interest destroy our National objectives?  The truth is,  the signs are not too good. The team selection bleeds of sentiments,  the selection of a venue, too smells of sentiments and you begin to wonder why all this is happening. We have lost our football, we have lost those men who...

By - Al Barney Anambra State as the Light of the Nation, long before now been lacked the right motivation for sporting development at elite and grassroots level. Prior to the institution of FCIfeanyiUbah by Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, most sports lovers football fantasies, was watching tv highlights or follow updates online or on dailies. The state had a little known clubs with limited ambitions until a bigger brand which is the Anambra Warriors took over and revolutionized the game by bringing back our fans to status quo (The Stadium). It takes a passion and enthusiasm to institute such massive structure in a year, within a two and a half years of top flight football, achieved accolades that some older clubs wished for on their cabinet. In that short period of time, Nnewi and Anambra have had more visitors than ever before, the revolution have taken the City and State to a forefront in Nigeria's Sports industry as well as the Global map. A quick outline why the FC IfeanyiUbah Int...