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Ossie Ardiles tips Super Eagles to be World Cup dark horses as NFF picks Pyatigorsk as Nigeria's base camp

ARGENTINE World Cup-winning midfielder Osvaldo Ardiles has tipped Nigeria to be one of the dark horses in the forthcoming World Cup pointing out that the Super Eagles may surprise everyone and win the tournament.

 

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Osinbajo voted Nigerian Man of the Year in recent Sahara Reporters online poll

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been voted as the Nigerian Man of the Year in a poll conducted by news outlet Sahara Reporters receiving 41% of the votes cast by respondents.

 

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Messi hints he may retire from international football if Nigeria defeats Argentina at World Cup

ARGENTINE skipper Lionel Messi has hinted that he may retire from international football if Nigeria's Super Eagles and the other teams in Group D give Albiceleste a bloody nose by handing out defeats to them.

 

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It is time for Nigeria's most promising duo of Henry Onyekuru and Kelechi Nwakali to come of age

EARLIER this week, a new CIES Football Observatory report revealed a list of the world's100 most valuable young footballers, detailing the value of the planet's best youngsters under the age of 21. Nigeria's Wilfred Ndidi was rated as the 11th most expensive young footballer in the world in the report, valued at a staggering £57m.

 

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Aguero says Argentina may have lost to Nigeria because his team mates were worried about him

MANCHESTER City striker Sergio Aguero has revealed that it is possible that Argentina lost its recently friendly against Nigeria because his team mates were worried about his health after he was rushed to hospital at half time.

 

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Senator Abaribe asks court to visit Ipob leader Nnamdi Kanu's residence in Umuahia

CHAIRMAN of the South East Senate Caucus Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe has asked the federal high court in Abuja to send a delegation to the home of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Nnamdi Kanu to ascertain what really happened to him.

 

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Dangote named as the only African in Bloomberg's list of world's most 50 influential people

AFRICA'S richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote has emerged as the only African to make the Bloomberg list of 50 most influential people in the world this year in a new survey that was published yesterday.

 

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Switzerland agrees to return $321m of Abacha loot to Nigeria under World Bank brokered deal

SWITZERLAND has agreed to return $321m to Nigeria representing a significant chunk of the amount it seized from former military dictator General Sani Abacha after the two countries agreed a deal with the World Bank.

 

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Nigerian and UK governments commence talks aimed at getting Arik to resume flights to London

NIGERIA and the United Kingdom have entered into negotiations to find means of addressing the matter of infrastructural support for aviation security and the return of Arik Air into the UK market.

 

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Wilfred Ndidi rated as the 11th most expensive footballer in the world with market valuation of £57m

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has been rated as the 11th most expensive young footballer in the world according to a new CIES Football Observatory report that values the Leicester City player at a staggering £57m.

 

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