La première manche du derby St Eloi Lupopo - Mazembe pour la finale du 14ème championnat national de football se joue ce jeudi 3 septembre au stade Kibasa Maliba. Les Cheminots croient dur comme fer en leurs chances de faire chuter les Corbeaux.

The Honourable Minister/Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Ndanusa Tuesday called on Nigerians to storm the National Stadium, Abuja in large numbers on Sunday to support the Super Eagles.

Sunday's win or bust World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Tunisia will be one of seventeen games on SuperSport that will give definition to the phrase 'feast of football'.

Four African teams are on top of the Super Eagles in the newest ranking of nations, the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of the world of football. The latest list, which was released last night, has seven Afican nations in the top 50. Tunisia, Nigeria's foes in Sunday's World Cup Qualifier match in Abuja, are not among the four weighing ahead of the Super Eagles in the list. The four ahead of them are Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt and Ghana.

Thirty-two years after the match that turned out to be the qualifying trump card result for the ticket to the World Cup Finals of Argentina '78, when Tunisia had beaten Nigeria at the National Stadium in Lagos, the Carthage Eagles seem to be invoking the spirit of their delightful lone goal win of the time to tackle the Super Eagles at the Abuja National Stadium on Sunday.

Moses Ogaga, who won the Pepsi Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for coming off the bench to score the vital goal that ensured that Kano Pillars F.C got the maximum three points in the CAF Champions League against Al Hilal of Sudan last weekend in Kano has predicted victory for the Super Eagles in the World Cup qualifying match against Tunisia on Sunday. The dreadlock wearing player who sent the full capacity Sani Abacha Stadium into wild celebration with his 74th minute goal said Tunisia is not be the only stumbling block to Nigeria's qualification for the first world cup in Africa.

Union Bank coach, Dave Onmoke has again reinstated the fact that he is building his team to keep on winning until the trophy is delivered at the end of the season.

The Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gideon Akinsola has said that contrary to what used to happen in the past where fans with VIP tickets will not get value for money nor have easy access to the VIP area, the Nigeria versus Tunisia clash in the World Cup Qualifier series, would be different. He has also said that to avoid a situation where fans will overwhelm the policemen posted to the venue, a total of 2,000 policemen will be assigned for the cracker on Sunday.

Whatever may be the lot of the Super Eagles in the ongoing World Cup qualifying race, the country will definitely have a fair presence at South Africa 2010 as apart from the host country, Nigeria has the most volunteer requests for the World Cup finals when the registration exercise closed by Monday midnight.

The Print Media Services Sub-committee of the Main LOC of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Finals has set up two groups within its body to work on the major assignments contained in its terms of reference.