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C.O.D United have announced today the appointment of former national team captain and manager, Augustine Eguavoen its Manager. After parting ways with former Manager Bode Awakan, the club has moved swiftly to appoint the former Enyimba and Sharks coach to fill the vacant managerial position. Eguavoen started his managerial career in 2001 at Silema Wanderers in Malta and guided the club to a 2nd place finish. 

Week 8, match day 1 results Kwara United 2:0 Nembe City. •El-Kanemi Warriors (Baman Bukar, Haruna Babalo)  2:0 3SC •Gombe United 1:0 Enyimba.FC •Wikki TouristS 1:1 Sharks FC Heartland FC (photo credit goal.com) The Kano Pillars and Heartland FC game at Kano was called off in the first half after police men on duty shot at a spectator during an altercation that went bad. Game was initially held up, but finally called off. More details later on this blog.

Dolphins’ media officer, China Acheru says the recently signed deal with Harp Lager to brand the jersey of Dolphins for the new season is good for the club. Dolphins on Tuesday last week signed a one year deal with Harp to endorse their jersey for one season and with the sporting press and fans of the club wondering why the “secrecy” surrounding the deal, the media officer has come out to say there was never anything to hide “There was never anything to hide about the deal but people got too impatient to ge the details and I really do not blame them. “For us there are three parts of the deal, maybe more that interested us and it was not just financial alone,” Acheru said.

The BATTLE for who becomes the Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC) is on and more seriously so. Dr Patrick Ekeji just retired and must be replaced soonest. Interestingly, everyone thought his replacement will be announced within days of his leaving but this was not the case. Actually, his retirement took lots of Sports followers by surprise aside close watchers of the NSC who knew he would surely be leaving. In fact, the real gossip has been who replaces him. The media, at least a section of it began speculating that it will be an easy one for Dr Bolaji Ojo-Oba, one time Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Secretary General for years. They said he is most senior of the Sports Technocrats in the NSC. They pointed also to the fact that Dr Amos Adamu, the first ever DG of the NSC, who Patrick Ekeji took over from will certainly do all in his power to ensure Ojo-Oba becomes the new DG as it will continue to make him a Kingpin in the scheme of things in spite of

I got this piece from Cyril White, I don't know how true these allegations are, I just want to share them so you can decipher if it's worth the weight, In no means whatsoever does it entail i concur or agree with him. Read as you please HOW RIVERS STATE SPORTS COMMISSIONER, FRED IGWE IS RUINING SHARKS FC OF PORT HARCOURT Following a copious identification of problems that had prevented Sharks from winning any trophy of note in over three decades, the Rivers State Ministry of Sports headed by Hon. Boma Iyaye accepted and enforced the recommendation that the task of running the team be vested in the head coach. This led to the title, Technical Manager that was assisted by a crack management team. This decision, quickly (in two years) almost yielded the FA Cup but for football politics. However the team won the West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup a year later in 2010. Rather than build on that success, the present sports commissioner, Barrister Fr