Newly promoted Portuguese side CD Feirense have loaned out Nigeria youth international shot stopper Dele Alampasu to third division side FC Cesarense.

Alampasu will spend six months at the third division side in order to develop and get game time, as he has been relegated to the role of third choice goalkepper at CD Feirense.

However, the best goalkepper at the 2013 Under-17 World Youth Championship will return back to his original club in January, according to the terms of his loan deal.

The 19 year old is yet to taste a minute of league football since his move to Portugal last season, he has however featured in two cup games, which remains his only professional set of games till date.

The number of players in the Nigeria camp has risen to 11 following the arrival of Odion Ighalo, William Troost Ekong, Ogenyi Onazi, Elderson Echiejile and Ikechukwu Ezenwa.

Their arrival brings to 11, the total number of players in the camp as Brown Ideye,Emmanuel Daniel, Jamiu Alimi, Victor Osimhen, Musa Mohammed, and Imoh Ezekiel arrived yesterday.

However, Manchester City teen star Kelechi Iheanacho and the Chelsea duo of John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses are still being expected as at 2:45pm.

The trio are reportedly expected later tonight, although a source said they could arrive on Wednesday morning due to issues concerning flight connections from Lagos.

Head coach of the team Genort Rohr is also yet to arrive the camp of the team in Uyo alongside several players, as their flight from Lagos was rescheduled for today.

Outgoing AS Roma 19 year old Nigerian forward Sadiq Umar has for the first time revealed picture of the lady in his life, by posting her picture on his facebook wall.

He posted a picture of himself and his cute girlfriend on his official facebook account, and drew comments from close friends although he didn’t respond to any of the comments.

Sadiq who has spent two years in Italy, playing for Spezia before heading to Roma is widely regarded as one of the fast rising talents in Nigeria and Africa at large.

The shy talking, six feet tall forward is close to agreeing a loan switch to Bologna where he is sure to get game time as oppose to Roma, where he has found games hard to come by since Luciano Spalleti replaced Rudi Garcia.

His move to Bologna is being held up by issues surrounding terms of a co-ownership deal with Roma, but the forward who scored four goals for Nigeria bronze medal Olympic team at the Rio Olympics doesn’t appear to be bothered by the delay.

Mr. Justice I. I Kunda of the Plateau State High Court, Jos on Monday adjourned to tomorrow (Wednesday) the suit for the reinstatement of Giwa FC into the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL)2015/16 season.

The Judge will on the adjourned date rule on the issue of whether he can continue to hear the case, after LMC had appealed against his order of interim injunction.

At the resumed sitting in a case filed by one Mustapha Abubakar seeking to reinstate Giwa FC into the NPFL and also reschedule all the games the club was excluded from playing following its expulsion in May, the only issue argued by Counsels on both sides was whether the Judge can continue to hear the matter in view of the appeal filed by LMC against the earlier interim order of the Judge made on 12th August, 2016.

When the case came up, the LMC’s Counsel, Olumide Olujinmi, informed the court that LMC had filed an appeal against the interim order and applied to the court to adjourn the matter sine die pending the outcome of the hearing of the appeal by the Court of Appeal in accordance with decided cases and legal authorities.

He referred the court to the Affidavit of Pending Appeal filed by LMC to this effect.

But the application was opposed by the Counsel for Abubakar, H.S. Adzard, who though admitted to having been served with the Affidavit of Pending Appeal.

Adzard had argued that there was no pending appeal since the records of proceedings had not been transmitted to the Court of Appeal within 60 days as required by the Rules. He also contended that the Affidavit of Pending Appeal was incompetent and urged the Court to go on with the case.

Barrister H.O. Maduabuchi, whose authority to appear in the matter for Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on the claim of having been appointed by one Yahaya Adama associated with a renegade group led by Mr Chris Giwa is yet to be resolved, adopted the submissions of Adzard, and urged the court to continue the hearing of the case.

In his reply, Olujinmi cited further cases and authorities and submitted that in view of the facts of the case and these authorities the High Court was now barred from hearing the case. He alerted the court to the ploy of the opposing Counsel who, he stated, was only trying to get the judge to decide or rule on issues already properly submitted to the Court of Appeal for adjudication. He urged the court to resist this attempt by the opposing Counsel.

The judge then requested Olujinmi to furnish the court with copies of the legal authorities he had cited which the LMC Counsel undertook to do.

Courtesy: LMC Media

Anorthosis Famagusta of Cypriot will in the coming hours know their fate regarding the signing of Nigeria international Shehu Abdullahi, who was also at the recently concluded Rio 2016 Olympics with the Nigeria U23s.

An entourage from the Cypriot side have been sent to Shehu, to iron out the remaining details of his transfer, and Anorthosis have also set a deadline for the deal to be concluded.

We gathered, they want the deal sorted out before noon on Tuesday 30th of August, else they will be forced to withdraw their offer for the former Kano Pillars ace who is keen on a move away from relegated Uniao Madeira.

Anorthosis24 reports that the 23 year old who can play as a midfielder and also as a full back has already agreed to the terms proposed by the club, but an agreement is yet to be struck with his former side Uniao Madeira.

The Cyptiot side wants to sign the Bronze medal winning defender as a free agent but it appears his Portuguese side have triggered the option of contract renewal inserted in his deal, when he joined them last summer from Kuwaiti side Al Qadsia as a free agent.

2007 Under-17 World Cup winner Rabiu Ibrahim says he is in Belgium to have medicals with Belgian side Gent, before signing the dotted line to complete his switch from AS Trencin.

At Gent, he will join Moses Simon who also joined the Belgian side from Slovak side AS Trencin, two summers ago.

“It’s true, am in Belgium as we speak now, my medicals will take place today, am so happy for the opportunity to play for a team as big as Gent” He told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” I want to thank AS Trencin and the fans of the club, they really treated me well, and I will forever remain a fan of the team”.

Rabiu Ibrahim has five caps for the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the former Celtic, Kilmanorck, PSV and Sporting Lisbon midfield maestro hopes his move to Belgium will cement his spot in the national team.

” I’m hopeful that my performance in Belgium will help attract the attention of the national team handlers, am not done with the team, it’s the pride of every player to play for his country, am not different”.

The Head of Communications in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ademola Olajire says, the new policy of the President Mohammed Buhari regime is part of the reason why coach of the Nigeria U23s Samson Siasia has not been paid for five months.

Siasia while announcing his resignation from his role as the coach of the Nigeria U23 said he is being owed five months salary by the NFF, which Olajire admits the body is owing the bronze medal winning coach.

However Olajire pointed out, that the delay was caused by the policy of the government, which mandates all cash inflow to public institutions to first go through the Treasury Single Account (TSA).

Olajire angered by the coach decision in making public the issue of none payment of his salary for five months, says the coach should also be gracious enough to reveal to the public once he is paid.

“The NFF admits owing Siasia, but I believe you must have read about certain money from Caf was earmarked to pay himself and assistants but it had to first go into TSA, cos of new Govt policy. Siasia should be able to credit NFF for getting his team friendly matched and invitational tournaments, and for getting the team to Atlanta.

“The rest should be NOC and Sports Ministry. If Siasia does not appreciate anything at all, he should be able to appreciate that NFF gave him a job in the first place. He will get his five months salary (let me add that NFF Management are also being owed the same five months) but by then he will not be gracious enough to tell anybody that he has been paid.

“NFF has never meant evil for him. Of the 22 months he did in the job, he has been paid 17 months. He will get the balance soon, but will tell no one. The part people will hear and retain in their memory is that NFF is owing him”.

The head of communications at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ademola Olajire has opened up on the reason, why the football body collected the official car given to former Nigeria U23 coach Samson Siasia.

Olajire in a group chat, that has one of owngoalnigeria correspondent, said Siasia’s contract as coach of the Nigeria Men’s Olympic Football team has no provisions for official car.

He further said the car was retrieved from the wife of the coach while the team was in Atlanta prior to the Olympics, and not during the games as suggested by the coach.

The first question we must ask Siasia is, does his contract as Nigeria U23 Head Coach provide for official car? I apologize, but many of us appear ready to just jump on the bandwagon of ‘NFF flogging’ once something appears anywhere, no matter how ridiculous.

” Even the NFF President does not have an official car. The car in question is meant for Super Eagles Head Coach. It was bought brand new for Sunday Oliseh. When he left, it was handed over to Siasia when he served as interim Head Coach in March 2016. It was to have been withdrawn immediately after that assignment, but there was no immediate Eagles assignment so it was left for him to use while he prepared the team for the Olympics.

“Now, NFF appears to have erred in that now. The car was withdrawn when NFF auditors sighted Mrs Siasia driving it and pointed out the anomaly. There are regulations that go with government vehicles. Even Siasia can no drive it. It has to be driven by a driver in employ of government.

“The withdrawal happened while the team was in Atlanta. Well before the Olympics. But he’s trying to make it look like it was during the Olympics to whip up whatever sentiments. Unfortunately, it is not every little issue that the NFF will publicly react to. Siasia’s contract never entitled him to official car”

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In form Chelsea forward Victor Moses has confirmed via his official twitter handle, that he will arrive Nigeria tomorrow ahead of the Super Eagles game against Taifa Stars of Tanzania.

Nigeria will take on Tanzania in a dead rubber AFCON 2017 qualifiers tie in Uyo as Egypt have already picked the sole ticket from the group, but the Nigerian players will for the first time meet with newly appointed German coach Genort Rohr.

The 25 year old is finally making an impression at Chelsea under new manager Italian Conte, who has showed faith in the Nigerian as opposed to former manager Jose Mourinho who thrice sent the Nigerian on loan.

Moses has two goals in his last two outings for Chelsea this season, will most likely arrive Nigeria alongside team captain John Obi Mikel who is also set to arrive tomorrow.

“After a great 3 points on Saturday now it is time for international week and I’m looking forward to seeing the lads tomorrow” He posted on twitter.