AAG: Ivory Coast 2-1 Nigeria - Super Falcons Fail To Grab Bronze

Nigeria women’s team’s invincibility on the African continent is fading away fast as they lost to Côte d'Ivoire in the bronze medal match in the All Africa Games football event on Thursday.

The Falcons lost 2-1 to return home empty handed.

The Ivorians thereby completed a double over the coach Christopher Danjuma-led team at the All Africa Games having lost the group game 2-1.

All Africa Games: Nigeria 3-0 Tanzania

The gold looks very close to reach has the most successful female team in Africa moved a step forward by beating Tanzania to qualify for the semi-final.

Nigeria women’s team, the Super Falcons, have booked a place in the semifinal of the All Africa Games football event after they thrashed Tanzania 3-0 on Wednesday in their second group match.

All Africa Games: Nigeria 2-0 Ghana

Siasia's men have not disappointed in recent times and the Dream team VI keeps doing the nation proud. Junior Ajayi and Sokari were on song for the Dream Team in trashing Ghana.

Nigeria defeated arch-rivals and All Africa Games champions Ghana 2-0 to book their place in the semi-finals of the football event of this year’s AAG.

Nigeria’s final Group B match against Senegal, who drew 0-0 with Ghana on the opening day, will determine the overall winners of the group following the last-minute withdrawal of Egypt.

Siasia Sure Of Foreign Based Players Participation In All African Games

With some of his key players securing contracts abroad, U-23 coach, Samson Siasia, says he hopes such players would be released to play at the All Africa Games next month.

Captain Okechukwu Azubuike has signed with Turkish side, Yeni Metalyaspor, while striker Junior Ajayi is on the verge of joining Esperance of Tunisia and Siasia says he had an understanding with the players about them playing at the All Africa Games.

Consequently, he hopes their clubs would release them when the time comes.

NSC Set To Lay Off 250 Athletes From Training Camp

Less than three weeks to the 11th All Africa Games (AAG) in Brazzaville, Congo, the National Sports Commission (NSC) is set to decamp about 250 athletes presently undergoing trials at the various federations’ training facilities.

No fewer than 750 athletes had been invited to camps by the 19 sports federations that will feature athletes at the Brazzaville AAG, but only 450 will make the cut for the games beginning on September 4, 2015.

Director-General of the NSC, Mallam Alhassan Yakmut, told National Mirror exclusively that the Commission would send the 250 home to allow the coaches concentrate on the 450 athletes that will travel to Congo.

All African Games: Yahaya Mohammed Assures Nigerians Of 15 Gold Medals In Weight Lifting

The Vice President of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, Yahaya Mohammed, has assured weight lifting enthusiasts that Nigeria’s participation in the 11th All Africa Games, Congo 2015, will be a huge success.

The Games are scheduled to hold from September 4 to 19 in Congo Brazzaville, and the NWF boss says the lifters would haul not less than 15 gold medals for Team Nigeria.

Mohammed spoke on Tuesday, just as the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Alhassan Yakmut, said that he was pleased with the level of preparedness being displayed by the athletes in their various camps in readiness for the Games.

All Africa Games: 12 Boxers Set To Represent Nigeria

The Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF) Wednesday unveiled a 12-man boxing team to represent the country at the 11th All Africa Games (AAG).

The Games are scheduled to run from Sept. 4 to Sept. 19, in Congo, Brazzaville. They are made up of 10 male and two female boxers. The team would be accompanied by four coaches.

They are Muyideen Oyakojo (49kg), Taiwo Abiodun (52kg), Sanusi Abiodun (56kg), Rilwan Oladosu (60kg), Shogbanmu Waheed (64kg), Korede Adeniyi (75kg) and Ademuyiwa Kehinde (79kg).

Super Falcons Resume Camping Today Ahead Of All African Games

Super Falcons will resume camping today in preparation for the forthcoming All Africa Games (AAG) in Congo Brazavile.

The team, which failed to progress to the next qualifying stage of the Rio Olympic Games after losing 3-2 on aggregate to Equatorial Guinea, will regroup after the dismal outing in Bata.

The loss in Bata meant Nigeria failed once again to participate in the women football event of the Olympic Games, having missed in the 2012 Games in London.

Injury Rules Asisat Oshoala Out Of All African Games In Brazzaville

Nigeria women coach Christopher Danjuma has picked 35 players for the Super Falcons’ camping exercise for the 11th All African Games billed for Congo Brazzaville.

Onome Ebi, Francisca Ordega, Halimat Ayinde, Esther Sunday and Josephine Chukwunonye have been recalled to the Nigeria side that failed to beat the Nzalang Nacional to the Rio 2016 Olympics female football event ticket.

While Asisat Oshoala has been dropped from the squad selected by acting coach Danjuma, as well as Courtney Dike, Nasarawa Amazon’s Mariam Ibrahim and Kemi Fatuyesi of Confluence Queens have been handed a surprise call-up.

All Africa Games: Samson Siasia Gunning For Gold In Congo

Basking from the eupho­ria of ending the dream of his Congolese counterpart in the Olympic Games qualifiers, chief coach of the national U-23 team, Samson Siasia, has expressed confidence of his team winning gold medal in the Brazzaville, Congo 2015 All Africa Games (AAG).

While declaring that win­ning the football gold of the Games will not be a challenge to him in a chat with sports writers, SiaOne maintained that such feat would add to his ratings and achievement as a coach, stressing that it is not a mission impossible.

Siasia who described his teams impressive display in Congo last weekend as a very daunting task, used the oppor­tunity to shower encomium on his players for making him proud, revealing that partici­pating in the AAG would help prepare his players for the last lap of the qualifiers for the football event of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Senegal.