Zuma assures English fans on World Cup: “You are safe in South Africa”.

President Jacob Zuma has reassured UK football fans travelling to the World Cup this summer that they would ‘come to South Africa safely and leave South Africa safely’.
Gani Fawehinmi “Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone.”
Nnamdi Azikwe “Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”

President Jacob Zuma has reassured UK football fans travelling to the World Cup this summer that they would ‘come to South Africa safely and leave South Africa safely’.

Amobi Okoye, the Anambra State born American Football star is home- bound with a group of friends. The mission is to embark on a 10-day trip aimed at promoting the type of football as well as carry out special charity duties in his home state, Anambra in Nigeria.

A cameraman who was among three members of aSouth African television crew abducted in Nigeria has fled to safety and is now in Lagos, an official from the M-Net channel told AFP.

Gunmen kidnapped three sports journalists Monday working for an African satellite channel in the oil-rich and restive Niger Delta, a region that has seen a lull in violence because of a government amnesty program, a colleague said.

Former Swedish coach Lars Lagerback has been appointed the new Manager of the Nigeria Super Eagles after an excruciating screening of some of the best in the World of football Management.

As the dust raised by the decision of Confederation of African Football (CAF) to ban Togo from the next two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations is yet to settle, former Green Eagles’ captain and a member of the Presidential Task Force on Super Eagles’ qualification for the World Cup in South Africa, Chief Segun Odegbami (MON), has described the ban as being too harsh and inhuman.

Nigeria Football Federation has commenced a desperate search for a credible foreign manager after the announcement of the sack of Super eagle’s coach Shuaib Amodu.

As earlier opined by Emnnews.com, the lack-lustre performance by the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the recently completed African Cup of Nations is traceable to the contagious effect of the curses Nigeria ancestors have rained on stake holders in the current political dispensation.

The board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will meet on Friday in Abuja, where a decision to do away with the services of coach Shuaibu Amodu will be taken, top officials have disclosed.

Egypt has made history as the first African Country to win the coveted African Cup of Nations trophy in three times consecutively sending the North Africans into a frenzy of celebration.