Iheanacho quits Eagles for Man City

 

Golden Eaglets striker, Kelechi Iheanacho

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Golden Eaglets forward, Kelechi Iheanacho, is set to join English Premier League side, Manchester City. The player left having been released on Monday from the Super Eagles camp in Abuja by Stephen Keshi. Iheanacho was in camp for the Championship of African Nations billed for South Africa in January.

A statement from the Eagles Media officer, Ben Alaiya, on Monday confirmed Iheanacho’s departure for England. 

We want to beat Drogba – Mikel

 

Mikel Obi has reflected on the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League, after Chelsea were paired to play Galatasaray on Monday. Didier Drogba who now stars for the Turkish side will return to Stamford Bridge for the first time since leaving Chelsea.

Mandela lessons for Nigerian leaders

Nelson Mandela

When I teach leadership, I often raise the question of the 20th Century. Why did giants walk the earth as global leaders early in the century and the epoch ended with a dearth of global leaders, from Winston Church, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, etc and it closed with people like George W. Bush, a classic nonleader? But a scapegoat from the age and tradition of Gandhi, still was on a long walk to freedom, stepping out another turn in 1990. 

ASUU calls off strike, apologises to journalists

 

National President, ASUU, Nasir Issa-Fagge

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday called off its over five months old strike after deliberations that started on Monday morning and lasted till the early hours of Tuesday.
The Union’s President Dr. Nasir Fagge, told journalists at the press briefing, which held at the Science Complex building of the Federal University of Technology, Bosso Campus, Minna, Niger State, that it accepted the resolutions signed between ASUU and the Federal Government on the 11th December, 2013 with the President of Nigeria Labour Congress.

AVB needed to be miracle worker'

Football | Barclays Premier League

Andre Villas-Boas would have had to have been a "miracle worker" to blend seven new signings into a title-challenging team this season, according to West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce.
Tottenham Hotspur sacked young Portuguese manager Villas-Boas on Monday when chairman Daniel Levy wielded the axe in the wake of Sunday's 5-0 home thrashing by Liverpool.
Despite still being in touch with the top four Tottenham also lost 3-0 at home to struggling West Ham this season and 6-0 at Manchester City, results which had already piled huge pressure on Villas-Boas before the Liverpool humiliation.

Celtic on the hunt against Ajax

Football | Absa Premiership

Bloemfontein Celtic will aim for a third successive Absa Premiership win when they head over to Cape Town Stadium to face Ajax Cape Town on Wednesday evening, kick-off at 19h30.
Both outfits arrive into the midweek encounter off the back of several impressive results which leaves them delicately positioned on the league table.

Lobi Feeders duo get big break

Football | Nigeria

The conveyor belt at Lobi Feeders continues to unearth fresh talents as Michael Anura and Suleiman Ochimana have earned the confidence of Lobi Stars gaffer, Evans Ogenyi.
Anura and Ochimana played for Lobi’s development team in the Nationwide Division 1 (Amateur) League last season before their elevation.
The progress of the duo underscores a tradition since club supremo and former Nigerian international, Dominic Iorfa, who played for QPR and Galatasaray established the youth team.

City targets Swallows scalp

Football | Absa Premiership

Polokwane City will be looking to continue their upward movement on the Absa Premiership table when they travel to Soweto to face Moroka Swallows at the Dobsonville Stadium on Wednesday evening, kick-off at 19h30.
City has been on an upward curve since the appointment of coach Boebie Solomons.
The Limpopo side were languishing at the foot of the table after the first few rounds of league action, but have produced good results of late.

Hiddink in line for Dutch job

Football | Europe

Guus Hiddink is in pole position to become the next Netherlands national team coach as speculation increases over an imminent contract.
Louis van Gaal is to quit after next year's World Cup and Hiddink set to sign a contract in January as his replacement once the tournament in Brazil is concluded, Dutch media reported.
A two-year deal up to and including the 2016 European Championship in France is to be offered to the 67-year-old, who will return for a second spell in charge of the Dutch side.

FIFPro calls for overhaul of transfer system

Football | Transfer Watch

World players' union FIFPro has demanded a radical overhaul of soccer's transfer system and is ready to take legal measures to get its way.
"The transfer system fails 99 percent of players around the world, it fails football as an industry and it fails the world's most beloved game," FIFPro president Phillipe Piat said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Football's governing bodies, clubs and leagues claim the transfer system is necessary to ensure competitive balance, whereby in fact it creates a spiral of economic and sporting imbalance which only benefits the richest one percent of clubs and player agents.

Bale out of Copa del Rey clash

Football | Spain

Gareth Bale will miss the second leg of Real Madrid's Copa del Rey fourth-round tie against third-tier Olimpic Xativa on Wednesday due to a calf injury.
Real boss Carlo Ancelotti said the Welshman had picked up the knock in training on Tuesday, but was hopeful he would be fit for Sunday's trip to Valencia in La Liga.
"He had a little problem with a knock on his calf and we'll need to see how he recovers over the nest few hours, but I don't think he will have any problems in playing on Sunday," said the Italian.
Madrid will also be without the suspended Cristiano Ronaldo and Los Blancos still have work to do to seal their place in the last 16 after being held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg.