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September 27, 2019 Nigeria medal hopefuls as Doha World Championships begin
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Nigeria medal hopefuls as Doha World Championships begin

The 2019 World Athletics Championships begin in Doha on Friday (today) with Team Nigeria being represented by 25 athletes.

Team Nigeria go into the competition with a mixture of experienced and new athletes hoping to break grounds.

Blessing Okagbare

With a 100m Season’s Best of 11.04secs and 200m SB of 22.05secs, Okagbare will be Nigeria’s sole representative in both events. She would also lead the charge for the country in the women’s 4x100m.

Divine Oduduru

Oduduru is one of the best sprinters in the world. He is the first Nigerian sprinter to break the sub-10secs barrier in over a decade. He holds a Personal Best of 9.86secs in 100m. He will be making his debut at the World Championships in Doha.

Tobi Amusan

Amusan is a strong medal hopeful for Nigeria in women’s 100m hurdles. With a PB of 12.49secs. She is the current African champion.

Raymond Ekevwo

Ekevwo announced himself to  the World at the African Games men’s 100m with a personal best of 9.96secs, thereby becoming Africa’s fastest man. Now known in Nigeria and Africa, the 20-year-old has all in him to pull probably the biggest upset in World Championships history, by winning the title.

Usheoritse Itsekiri

Itsekiri is Nigeria’s third representative in the men’s 100m. He will be hoping to run his first sub-10secs in Doha. His brilliant run of 10.02secs to win the bronze medal at the African Games, is a personal best and third fastest in Nigeria.

Ese Brume

Brume is ranked second in women’s long jump on IAAF world list. The 2014 Commonwealth Games and reigning African champion with a PB of 7.05m is a potential medallist in Doha.

Chukwuebuka Enekwechi

Enekwechi will be making his second consecutive appearance at the World Championships. He is the country’s only representative in Shot put. He has thrown above the 21m mark nine times this year. He is among world’s top 10 best throwers with his PB of 21.80m.

Emmanuel Arowolo

He will be competing in men’s 200m alongside Oduduru. His PB of 20.37secs is at present the fastest by a Nigerian home-based athlete. He won the Cameroon Grand Prix. With his experience of the 2018 Commonwealth Games and African Championships, World Relays and African Games, Arowolo is a medal hopeful for Nigeria.

Chioma Onyekwere

Onyekwere won her first African title in Asaba in 2018, and also did same at the recently concluded African Games in Rabat.  She got an invitation with a PB of 60.75m.

Patience Okon-George

Okon-George has competed at every major international championship since 2014. The experienced quartermiler will be participating in her third consecutive appearance at World Championships level.

With a SB of 51.66secs, she is expected to lead Nigeria’s 4×400 women’s team.

Favour Ofili

17-year-old Ofili is one of Nigeria’s youngest athlete in history that will compete at the World Championships. She qualified for Doha after running a PB of 51.68secs to win 400m silver medal at African Games in Rabat. She is number two on IAAF World U-18 list and took part at the 2019 World Relays.

September 27, 2019 Fraud: Again NFF officials absent in court
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Fraud: Again NFF officials absent in court

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday frowned at the refusal of four officials of the Nigeria Football Federation to appear in court for alleged $8.4m dollars and N4bn  fraud case.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had on July 1, issued a warrant of arrest for the four men following their repeated refusal to appear in court to answer to the fraud charges against them.

The Federal Government had through the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property charged them with alleged misappropriation of $8.4m and N4bn belonging to the NFF.

The five officials are NFF President, Amaju Pinnick; NFF Secretary, Sunusi Mohammed; the 1st Vice-President, Seyi Akinwumi; the 2nd Vice-President, Shehu Dikko and an Executive member, Yusuff Fresh, as the 1st to 5th respondents respectively.

Pinnick was exempted from the ordered arrest due to his official roles as a member of the Confederation of African Football’s organising committee at the African Cup of Nation in Egypt.

Justice Ojukwu said their duty was to be in court when ordered as the charges against them before the court had not been cancelled.

“Nobody is bigger than the law,” she said.

Counsel to the defendants, Mohammed Katu, said the respondents were absent because the president had instructed that the Attorney General of the Federation took over the case from the office of Special Presidential Investigation Panel.

He said that the AGF had earlier called the attention of the respondents to his office and in view of the recent development he believed the AGF would do justice to prosecute the matter.

Justice Ojukwu said that the defendants had no reason to appear before any agency thereby constituting a parallel hearing in disobedience to the court.

September 27, 2019 Egyptian votes void because of capital letters -FIFA
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Egyptian votes void because of capital letters -FIFA

Two votes for Mohamed Salah in the Best FIFA men’s player award were not counted because signatures were in capital letters, says FIFA.

The Egyptian Football Association said acting Egypt coach Shawky Gharib and Captain Ahmed Elmohamady voted for Liverpool forward Salah.

FIFA said, “The signatures on the voting forms were in capital letters and thus seemed not valid.”

The forms also lacked a mandatory signature by the EFA general secretary.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the award on Monday ahead of Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk.

Since the awards ceremony Salah has removed “Egypt” from his Twitter profile, which now reads, “Footballer for Liverpool FC.”

He also posted a tweet which translates as, “Whatever they do to try to change my love for Egypt, they will not succeed.”

Egyptian Football Association president Amr El-Ganainy said he talked with Salah. He said, “I talked with Salah explained to him it was an administrative mistake.”

Nicaragua captain Juan Barrera called into question the authenticity of his country’s votes in the awards as he said he did not submit any votes.

FIFA’s records show that Barrera voted for Lionel Messi as best player and Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp as best manager.

 “I did not vote in the awards #TheBest2019 any information about my vote is false,” 30-year-old midfielder Barrera tweeted.

FIFA said it has asked the Nicaraguan Football Federation to investigate the matter after receiving “votes signed by the player”.

September 27, 2019 Azeez, Aribo, Olayinka to face Brazil, Iheanacho missing
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Azeez, Aribo, Olayinka to face Brazil, Iheanacho missing

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has picked in-form Granada of Spain midfielder Ramon Azeez and Czech –based forward Peter Olayinka in Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the prestige friendly with five –time world champions Brazil in Singapore on Sunday, October 13.

Rohr also have defenders Kenneth Omeruo, Abdullahi Shehu and Chidozie Awaziem back from injury, otherwise the squad is largely unchanged from the side that was forced to a 2-2 draw by Ukraine in Dnipro on September 10.

Goalkeepers Francis Uzoho, Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Maduka Okoye are retained, but England –based Leon Balogun and Russia –based Bryan Idowuare left out of the defence equation.

Leicester of England’s Kelechi Iheanacho is left out just as Bordeaux’s Joshua Maja.

England –based midfielder Wilfred Ndidi also returns after missing the Ukraine encounter with injury. Alex Iwobi, Oghenekaro Etebo and Scotland –based Joe Aribo, who scored on his debut against Ukraine, are all back in midfield, with Victor Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze, Moses Simon, Samuel Kalu, Paul Onuachu and Emmanuel Dennis all back in the frontline.

Captain Ahmed Musa is still down with injury

All invited players are expected to arrive in Singapore on Wednesday, October 9.

Nigeria and Brazil will tango in a much –anticipated encounter at the Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore on Sunday, October 13, 23 years after Nigeria, on their way to winning Africa’s first Olympic football gold, spanked the Selecao in the semifinals at the Athens Stadium in the State of Georgia, USA.

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