Nigeria: Standard Chartered Empowers Girls
In line with its Corporate Social Initiative programmes, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Nigeria, through its Goal programme, has partnered with a Non-governmental Organisation, Youth Empowerment Foundation, to provide football training, life skills and financial literacy education for 10,000 Nigerian girls this year.

Nigeria: GLO/CAF Footballer of the Year - Who Wears the Crown?
Today in Accra, Ghana, the 2009 African Footballer of the Year will be crowned. The award ceremony which holds at the State House Banquet Hall, is expected to attract global attention as the three nominees for the coveted crown command world respect in the game.

Zambia: Squabbles in FAZ Not Good For Development of Soccer
THE on-going squabbles in the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) are a demonstration that there is a lot of confusion and deep divisions in the national soccer body and are not helpful to the development of soccer at all.

Nigeria: GLO-CAF Awards - Tight Security At Venue
Globacom officials have said that arrangements have been made to ensure the safety of all the guests to the 2009 Glo-CAF Awards at the State House Banquet Hall in Accra, Ghana.

Nigeria: NFF Spends N1.2 Billion On World Cup Village in South Africa
South Africa's national team players training during a practice session in Teresopolis, Brazil, on Wednesday. South Africa's Bafana-Bafana is in Brazil for a month-long training camp as part of preparation for the upcoming 2010 World Cup.

Nigeria: Eguavoen, Amokachi's Fate Tied to Lagerback
Austin Eguavoen, Daniel Amokachi and Alloy Agu will all be fired along with Lars Lagerback if and when the Swede fails to meet his targets and is asked to go.

Nigeria: Winning is My Philosophy - Lagerback
Super Eagles manager, Lars Lagerback, has outlined what he says is his philosophy as a coach and has gone ahead recommended same for Nigerian coaches, if they are to achieve desired results.

Nigeria: Unilag Are 2010 Akofa League Champions
International School (University of Lagos, Akoka) have emerged 2010 champions of the AKOFA Ivy Basketball League. The team coached by Ernest Ijeoma won the boys category by beating Avi-Cenna International School 30-29.

South Africa: Stormers and Bulls Coaches Stick with Winning Formulas
STORMERS coach Allister Coetzee and his Bulls counterpart, Frans Ludeke, yesterday showed their faith in the players who powered their respective teams to the top end of the log standings early in the Super 14 as they attempt to build on their success in round five of the series.

South Africa: Resting Core National Players Will Be Key for World Cup Success
THE Springbok coaches may have achieved the desired results in the past two years by adhering to certain scientific facts to improve the players' performance during Tests.

South Africa: Yearling Sales 'To Set New Turnover Record'
THOROUGHBRED Breeders Association (TBA) chairman Altus Joubert says the forthcoming Emperors Palace yearling sales could produce a record turnover because "the international thoroughbred industry has come alive to the fact that South African- breds are able to hold their own on the international circuit".

South Africa: Coach Denies Feeling the Heat
BELEAGUERED Orlando Pirates coach Rudi Krol yesterday furiously dismissed suggestions that he would be under pressure to end the Bucs' decade-long cup competition drought when the Telkom Knockout gets under way this weekend.

Nigeria: Rising Star - Alaba Gets Big Breakthrough
Another Nigerian-born youngster is in the news in Germany, as David Olatokunbo Alaba suddenly emerges the next prodigy from Bavarian giants, Bayern Munich.

Nigeria: Obafemi Gets Wolfsburg First Team Shirt
BARELY 24 hours after Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins declared that he is ready to play as a substitute with VfL Wolfsburg, as long as it means he is still in the team, the former Inter Milan and Newcastle United striker has found the biggest opening for regular playing time with the German Bundesliga champions.

Nigeria: Kanu Plays Down Late Goal
Nwankwo Kanu has said that his first goal for more than three months could not gloss over a desperately disappointing Birmingham display. Pompey slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Fratton Park Tuesday night as they failed to match the highs of the previous encounter three days earlier.