The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) is exploring the possibility of showing its Premier League matches on television.

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Home-based Super Eag- les coach Okey Emordi is confident his side will come out victorious when they file out against Burkina Fa-so in Sunday’s African Nations Championship qualifying clash slated for Calabar.

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Africa’s 100m record holder, Olusoji Adetokunboh Fasuba will lead a strong Nigerian attack on the medals of the 16th African Athletics Championships which starts this morning at the National Stadium in Addis Ababa.

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The five Nigerian boxers going to Beijing for the Olympics have another chance to prove their class at the World Championships in Morocco.

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Coach of home-based Super Eagles, Okey Emordi has defended the list of 30 players invited for May 3 AF African Champion-ship qualifier against Burkina Faso.

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Two months after the dismal performance of the country’s senior national team, the Super Eagles at the 2008 African Cup of Nations held in Ghana, the Senate Committee on sports has concluded plans to hold a public hearing on what actually went wrong at the CAF organised tournament.

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Chairman of National Sports Commission, SC, Barrister Abdul-rahaman Hassan Gimba yesterday charged newly recruited Super Eagles coaches led by Amodu Shuaibu to be firm in handling the national team.

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Down by 24 runs, Foundation Cricket Club of Lagos says their loss to the Rocks Cricket Club of Abeokuta on Sunday in Lagos is officiating-induced.

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The NFA expressed delight that Nigerian clubs campaigning in African championships recor-ded resounding victories in the first leg of their respective com-petitions.

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Dolphins coach Lawren- ce Akpokona and his Asante Kotoko coun-terpart Bashir Hayford expres-sed divergent opinions on the officiating of their CAF confe-deration Cup game on Sunday.

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The camp of the national U-23 side swelled on Monday with the arrival of more invited domestic league players after their respective engagements with their various clubs.

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Home-based Super Ea- gles coach, Okey Emordi is disappoin-ted at the lack of seriousness to the African Nations hampionhip (CHAN) qualifier against Burkina Faso which holds this weekend this weekend.

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Kano Pillars top scorer, Bello Kofarmata and two of his team mates, Baleria Mohammed and Hilary Chukwu have been invited to the home-based Super Eagles camp, ahead of May 3 Africa Nations Championship qualifier against Burkina Faso at the UJ Esuene Stadium.

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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has its back against the wall over those that would sponsor its newly introduced Africa Nations Championship, slated for Cote d’Ivoire next year.

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With a view to motiva- ting Kano Pillars Football Club to im-prove on their wonderful per-formance in the nation’s Premier League, Kano State governor Malam Ibrahim Shekarau on Friday splashed N2.6million on the players and officials.

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Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Technical Director, Sunday Bada and Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr. Ade Abolurin have commended the decision to stage the NSC/AFN Invitational Relay, saying it would ginger interest in youths and raise stars in the event for Nigeria.

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Decisions taken by the NFL’s Organising and Disciplinary (O and D) committee on Friday added three points to Pillars’ haul and pushed them back to top of the Premier League table.

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The father of the Super Eagles and the Chelsea of England midfielder, John Mikel Obi has appealed to the Dream Team coach Samson Siasia and the Nigeria football Association not to leave out his son from the Olympics soccer action.

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A former member of the House of Representatives from Bauchi State, Alhaji Sani Toro yesterday appealed to members of the lower chamber of the National Assembly to soft pedal on their decision not to approve budgetary allocation to the National Sports Commission until the passage of its (NSC) act.

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A bill for an act to establish the National Sports Commission (NSC) yesterday in the House of Representatives passed second reading after members faulted the bill on Wednesday saying the current sports commission has no legal backing and the National Assembly has been appropriating funds to it.

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