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  These are heart-breaking times for the Nigerian sports community The Nigeria Football Federation technical director, Amodu Shuaibu has passed on at age 58 Shuaibu was a former coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria The NFF has announced the death of its technical director, Amodu Shuaibu.                 Late Amodu Shaiubu  A former coach of the Super Eagles, Shuaibu was aged 58. His death comes three days after the death of another former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi. The four-time coach of the Super Eagles was said to have complained of chest pains yesterday night, June 10 and died in his sleep. Before then, he drove himself in the afternoon to drop his friend with his car He  was discovered dead about 4am this morning. is at the mortuary at Stella Obasanjo hospital in Benin where his body was deposited. The late Amodu has always contributed his quota to the development of football in Nigeria. Under his stewardship, Nigeria qualified for the 2010 World Cup in Sou

  Stephen Keshi, a former coach of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, is dead The sudden demise of the football legend was confirmed by his relatives and the Nigeria Football Federation According to family sources, Keshi complained of being unwell just before midnight on Tuesday, June 7, and he was found to be gasping for breath He was rushed to Faith Hospital in the Benin Government Reservation Area, where he died around 00.30 this morning Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, a former coach of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, is reportedly dead. The Cable reports that the football legend died in the early hours of Wednesday, June 8, in Benin City, Edo state.                          The sudden demise of the former international was confirmed by his relatives and close associates. “He was not ill at all, never showed any signs of illness, but we suspect he never got over the death of his wife,” one of his close friends said. The Nigeri

   Manchester City are in advanced talks with Borussia Dortmund over the signing of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Aubameyang, the Bundesliga Player of the Year, had been linked with a summer move to Real Madrid, but the Spanish giants could be on the verge of losing out to City. The Gabon international's value sky-rocketed last season, with a haul of 25 goals in 29 Bundesliga games bettered only by Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski.

    The National Youth Service Corps in Abuja on Monday said the Batch ‘A’ stream II Orientation Course would commence on June 13 and end on June 29.                    The information was contained in a statement signed by the NYSC Director of Press, Bose Aderibigbe. The statement urged prospective corps members to log on to the NYSC portal to commence printing of call-up letters from June 7 by 2pm as the earlier printed call-up letters were invalid.    It said those who did not subscribe for online printing should start collection of call-up letters from June 9 from their various institutions of graduation.    The statement said the scheme had concluded necessary arrangements to hold the exercise after the Federal Government approved and released funds to it. It thanked all stakeholders for exercising patience and wished all prospective corps members a hitch free orientation.

   Former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday revealed that he is being investigated for corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.                                           The immediate past president, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg TV in London, declared; “Obviously, I’m being investigated”. When asked whether anything “bad” will be unearthed by the probe of his stewardship, he said “I wouldn’t want to make certain comments because, when a government is working, it’s not proper for immediate past presidents to make certain statements. “I will allow the government to do the work it’s supposed to do. “I wouldn’t want to make serious comments on that, it’s not proper. “After all these investigations, the whole stories will be properly chronicled. “I’ve just left office, and I should allow the President and his team to do what they believe is good for the country.” Jonathan, who disclosed that there has bee

 who will build our Nation? To me it sounded like a rhetorical question, which it really is Is the Nation to be built by the elders, youth or children? the elders are confused and all they could do is to sit down and eat Yam and oil Youth and children are tired and just got to plug that headset to their ear. We claim corruption is the bedrock of the nation Yes I agree with that, but who are the corrupt people? What should be done to people who are currupt? What is the cause of their corruption? Bear me witness, someone might say "our leaders are the ones corrupt another might say They should be killed or jailed. I concur with that... and I've come to think of it, the same set of people leading us since 1970s are still the ones leading, someone might like to say... Yaradua wasn't part of them neither Goodluck, let me bring it to your notice that Yaradua's brother was part of Obasanjo's team who went to prison and they decided to compensate the dead with his

   The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has dismissed the report that the scheme has been scrapped, describing it as a malicious and mischievous rumour. Reacting to the report on the scrapping of the scheme which trended at the weekend, the management insisted that there is no iota of truth in the report, announcing that the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) Orientation course will commence soon. “Our attention has been drawn to the report trending that NYSC has been scrapped. We want to emphatically say that there is no truth in such report. That rumour must be a mischievous one.                                      The management wishes to inform prospective Corps members that, based on the assurance received from the Federal Government regarding release of funds, the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) Orientation course will commence soon.    Prospective Corps members are, therefore, requested to watch out for specific date for commencement of the exercise, which will b