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The Nigeria National League has banned Joy Cometh coach Jide Oguntuase for four matches. Oguntuase was banned for his deliberate attempt to distract their

By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin City Entering his sparsely furnished sitting room in his weather-beaten bungalow at No 10 Omozioge Drive street off Jemide, Off Giwa Amu Street in Benin City, Coach Sebastian Broderikcs Imausen heartily welcomes his guest into a chair in the sitting room; he looks cheerful but he was quickly joined by his wife, Helen apparently to guide him and bring him back to himself as he seems to be suffering from dementia. Coach Sebastian in between sobs and at a point totally cryi...

…..It’s challenging training young ones, but fun 5 Oct 1993: Precious Monye of Nigeria running on the pitch during a match. Photo: Clive Brunskill/Allsport By Jacob Ajom Precious Monye is among that generation of Nigerian footballers that dazzled the world at the Scotland ’89 FIFA U17 World Cup. They were so good that they made Pele of Brazil utter his now time wearied prediction, that if there was any African country worthy of winning the World Cup, that country ought to be Nigeria. In t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 13 February 2021 In this report, ’TANA AIYEJINA takes a look at the illustrious career of late ex-Super Eagles defender Yisa Sofoluwe, who was buried on Wednesday in Lagos The big wigs of Nigerian football or top government officials were not there, neither was the fanfare and ceremony usually associated with the burial of a national hero, during Yisa Sofoluwe’s burial on Wednesday at Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos. Yet, this was a man who toiled for close to...

Ex-internationals lament NFF officials’ absence at Sofoluwe’s burial and Life Medical Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos... on Thursday ’Tosin Oluwalowo Ex-internationals have lamented the absence of officials of the Nigeria Football Federation at the burial of late Super Eagles defender, Yisa Sofoluwe. Sofoluwe was buried according to Muslim rites on Wednesday at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos on Wednesday. The ex-Eagles defender died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital on Tuesday after bein...