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  • IHF Trophy: Camping begins today in Abuja

    The Nigeria Under 20 National Men Handball team will begin camping today in Abuja for the Continental phase of the International Handball Federation (IHF) Trophy today in Abuja.

    The team will be camped at the Goal Project at the National Stadium, Abuja under the watch of Coaches Fidelis Obi and Agboola Shittu. The Nigerian team qualified for the continental showpiece after coming tops at the Zone Three qualifiers in Niamey, Niger Republic, which took place from April 8 to 15.

    The Secretary-General of HFN, Haruna Ilerika Mohammed stated that the cadet team will join the Under 20 on arrival from Algeria, where they are currently taking part in the African Youth Games (AYG). He also said that the team would likely train twice a day with the final list expected to compose the best player who can do Nigeria proud at the continental level. “We want to ensure that we prepare the team well for the championship. We also hope to qualify for world event that will come up later this year.

    “We have the backing of the HFN president, Sam Ocheho who is doing everything possible to see that Nigerians team are well-prepared and do well at international championships. The coaches of the under 20 team also know the enormity of the task ahead,” Mohammed added.

    The African leg will come up in Kigali, Rwanda from August 7 to 13.

  • Flying Eagles get $2000 camping allowance

    Flying Eagles get $2000 camping allowance

    In a bid to boost the morale of the Flying Eagles ahead of the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has paid the camp allowance of the team, sources have revealed to SL10.

    Each player was paid $2000 for the duration of the training tour the team embarked on in Germany.

    SL10 recalls that the reigning African Youth Championship (AYC) title holders have been camping in Nurnberg for the past 19 days in preparation for the World Youth Championship (WYC).

    The boys played series of friendlies, beating the U-23 teams of Hoffenheim, Freiburg and Nurnberg.

    The Flying Eagles were due to jet to out of Nurnberg Sunday night via a flight to Dubai, before connecting to Australia and then New Zealand. The competition is due to take place in New Zealand from 30th May to 20th June.

    Coach Manu Garba named ‘goal machine’ Taiwo Awoniyi, Manchester City starlet Kelechi Iheanacho and Moses Simon, who plies his trade at Belgian side KAA Gent, in his crack squad.

    Nigeria’s squad boasts of several youngsters – Kingsley Sokari, Musa Yahaya, Chidera Ezeh, Ojo Olorunleke, Dele Alampasu, Saviour Godwin, Issac Success, Musa Muhammed, Ifeanyi Matthew, Mustapha Abdullahi, Ifeanyi Ifeanyi, Idowu Akinjide, Zaharadeen Bello, Izu Omego, Onyinye Ndidi, Bernard Bulbwa and Chidiebere Nwakali.

    The likes of Samuel Okon, Abdulganiyu Saheed, Abdullahi Alfa, Alhassan Abdullahi, Wasiu Jimoh, Adamu Abubakar, Monsuru Bashiru, Usman Saleh and Christian Pyagbara were axed by the technical crew led by coach Manu Garba.

    Nigeria have been drawn in Group E alongside Brazil, North Korea and Hungary.

  • 2013/2014 season: Rangers in close camping

    2013/2014 season: Rangers in close camping

    Rangers International FC of Enugu have moved into close camping in preparation for the 2013/2014 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season.

    Paul Ozor, the club’s General Manager (GM), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the camp which opened at the Rojenny Stadium, Oba, Anambra, would last for three weeks.

    According to Ozor, 33 players and the team officials opened the camp on January 30 while the team will return to Enugu on February 21 for their first season encounter against Nembe City FC.

    “I am very happy that the boys have assured me that they are very willing to play this season and that they are going to put in their best.

    “We have a good number of our old players but we infused some young talented players who were part of the team that represented Nigeria at the U-17 World Cup.

    “We hope that as the season starts, Rangers will do a turnaround and make sure the trophy is ours this time.’’

    The Rangers GM noted that the appointment of John Obuh, the former Flying Eagles coach would also boost the club’s chances of winning the 2013/2014 league season.

    He, therefore, urged the League Management Company (LMC) to ensure equal and adequate live coverage of the matches as it would help to curb hooliganism and encourage healthy competition.

    “All we are asking is that all the matches be televised; don’t televise my match and next time you don’t go to televise the other person’s match.

    “I believe that if this is done, we will know the actual champions of the league.

    “It’s not winning at all cost or by all means; what we need is to know who will be the actual champion of the 2013/2014 league season.’’

    He commended the LMC for its laudable initiatives for the forthcoming season aimed at bringing sanity to the league but urged it to match its words with action.

    NAN recalls that Rangers had earlier picked the new stadium in Nanka, Anambra, constructed by a philanthropist, Polycarp Emenike, for their camping but later had a change of plan.

    NAN reports that four Rangers players: Ejike Uzoenyi, Ugonna Uzochukwu, Christian Obiozor and goalkeeper Chigozie Agbim are currently on national assignment with the Super Eagles at the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN).

     

  • Mobil plans holiday camping and training for 165 student athletes

    Mobil plans holiday camping and training for 165 student athletes

    Another first has been recorded in the history of sports sponsorship and promotions in Nigeria as Mobil Producing Nigeria, Operator of the NNPC/MPN Joint Venture finalises plans to camp and train 165 students in the modern technics and styles of track and field.

    Sponsor of the Akwa Ibom State /NNPC/MPN Schools Athletics Championships for the past thirteen years, the oil drilling giant has taken the event to another level by subjecting the champions of the competition in the last two years to an intensive two weeks camping that will afford them the benefit of modern coaching in the sport.

    The coordinator of the event Paul Bassey told journalists in Lagos that by agreeing to subject the student winners to a rigid coaching programme by some of the best coaches in the land, MPN has once again pioneered a programme that is worthy of emulation.

    One of the coaches invited for the programme is Solomon Abari, the NIS Director of coaching and one of the coaches who guided Nigeria to gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

    Also on the card is veteran athlete and coaching guru Armelia Edet, Nigeria’s Chief Athletics coach for so many years.

    Armelia was all praise for the programme saying that her dream is revolved around events like this. ‘’…….Until we start to not only catch, but coach them young, then we have not started. I am excited, I will give my all, but we should be ready to build on this initial attempt, by regularly updating their knowledge.

    Akwa Ibom State Director of Sports Coach Aniedi Dickson said this is a programme that will benefit the state no end as they prepare for the upcoming National Sports Festival for U-17 athletes.

    “……I am into consultations with the organisers of the programme to also allow my coaches benefit from the training programme that will be handled by experienced and tested coaches” the Sports Director said.

    Students that will take part in the programme will benefit from the provision of spike shoes and other apparels that they will “ keep and train with

    “…..We are taking them to the U. J Esuene stadium in Calabar where they will train on tartan tracks for the first time, use starting blocks and so on. In fact the coaches may spend a whole day teaching them how to get used to and run with spike shoes,” Bassey joked.