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  • Aliyu considers Swedish offer

    Aliyu considers Swedish offer

    Former Eaglets defender Abubakar Aliyu will consider an offer from Swedish club Djurgardens IF, his agent has told AfricanFootball.com

    “Djurgardens are keen to sign Aliyu. We are studying the offer they have proposed,” the player’s agent Babawo Mohammed told AfricanFootball.com

    Aliyu, who won the FIFA Under 17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates last year, underwent trials at Djurgardens along with Akinjide Idowu and Umar Ahmed. The big central defender also underwent trials in Ukraine along with another Eaglets star Samuel Okon.

  • Nigeria to offer Keshi improved deal

    Nigeria to offer Keshi improved deal

    The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) plan to offer coach Stephen Keshi an improved deal that will see him get seven million Naira a month (over $43,000), top officials have exclusively informed AfricanFootball.com

    This plan comes amidst rumours that Keshi has quit his post.

    But AfricanFootball.com has also learnt that the NFF have a plan B to hire a foreign coach to be assisted by a local man and this would be if Keshi turned down the new contract tabled by his employers.

    Keshi himself told AfricanFootball.com that he never resigned, but rather he is now a free agent as his contract ended with the World Cup in Brazil.

    He also said he was yet to be proposed a new contract and should there be one, he would insist on such personal terms like a house and a car.

    “I never resigned because my contract just ended. I will only resign if I have a contract,” Keshi told AfricanFootball.com

    “I was meant to know that I’m still on as long as the World Cup is there. Once the World Cup is over, I’m no more there.

    “No one from the NFF offered me a contract, so what do you want me say? To keep shut? I need to let the world know that I’m a free agent, I can go anywhere until otherwise.”

    Keshi said for a new Nigeria contract, his agreed personal terms will have to be in place, which was not the case for his first stint. “We have to talk on my personal terms or it won’t work because in the first contract of two and a half years, there was no house, no vehicle, there was nothing done.” he said.

    Top official of the League Management Committee, Shehu Dikko, who has been with the Super Eagles in Brazil, told AfricanFootball.com that both the NFF and the coach will soon take a decision on whether or not to extend the contract.

    “If he wants to continue, he has to tell the NFF. If the federation want him to continue, they need to convince him that because he has achieved so much, we want you to stay on,” Dikko told AfricanFootball.com

    “It’s really the vision of the people in charge. They will decide on what they want. But it does not matter because this is a country of 160 million people and there are always other people who could do this job.”

    Keshi is expected back with the team today.

  • Army ‘ll offer first-class training for personnel, says Ihejirika

    The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, said yesterday that the Nigerian Army would provide first-class training for its personnel to meet contemporary challenges.

    Ihejirika spoke during the graduation of the eighth Basic Counter Terrorism Training conducted by the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, for junior officers.

    He said the training would enhance the capacity of the personnel to discharge their duties.

    He said it was organised for junior officers because of the deficiency in professional conduct bordering on indiscipline, negligence in performance of duties and illegal duties.

    “It is also to bridge the gap and appreciate the importance of intelligence as a key driver in irregular operations,” Lt-Gen Ihejirika said.

    He also said that a special package on intelligence had been included and conducted by counter terrorism experts from the Directorate of Military Intelligence and Department of State Security.

    “The training you have received within the past five weeks has moulded you with the requisite professional competence to tackle the challenges you are likely to meet in the field,” he said.