Taribo pleads for U-17 team

Atlanta ’96 Olympic Games winner Taribo West has called for  a structure to develop the Golden Eaglets after the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Taribo told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday  that the Nigerian Football Federation  should provide a structure to keep the talents alive. The former Inter Milan and AC Milan defender said,  “The NFF does not have a structure that supports football...

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Colleagues Arrested Over Engineer’s Death in ‘Robbery’ Attack

Four employees of Linksoft Communications Systems, an Abuja based computer software company, have been arrested by the Force Criminal Investigation  Department Annex, Alagbon, Lagos, in connection with the death of their colleague, Tochukwu Aneke, under controversial circumstances. The suspects -Justus Ogbuagwu, Micheal Falode, Rapheal and a fourth yet -to-be identified person- were allegedly arrested more than a month after Tochukwu’s...

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Liverpool manager wanted me at Chelsea – Moses

Liverpool’s on-loan forward Victor Moses very nearly became a Chelsea player more than five years before actually making the move to Stamford Bridge. Moses was an academy product at Crystal Palace in the previous decade and made his Premier League debut with the Eagles. It was the same time that his current Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was youth team manager under Jose Mourinho at Chelsea. Rodgers became an admirer of Moses’ talents, and the...

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World Cup arenas ready on time – Brazilian minister

SAO PAULO (AFP) – All 12 host stadiums for next year’s World Cup will be ready on schedule in December, Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said Monday. “We are confident that we can deliver. We are not very late,” he told a press conference here. And he brushed aside doubts over whether the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba, capital of the center-west state of Mato Grosso, can be completed by the end of the year. He said he expected the Cuiaba stadium,...

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Governance is being with the people – Gov Fayemi

Governor Kayode Fayemi is in the third year of his stewardship of Ekiti State. His ascension to office in 2010 was upon the affirmation of the courts that he was the winner of the 2007 election. Ahead of the gubernatorial election next year, the governor in this interview in Ado Ekiti, responds to concerns over potential effects of increasing political tension on governance among other issues. Excerpts: A year to the next governorship election...

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