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 Afcon 2013 champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will today June 12 2013, play their 2014 world cup group “f” qualifiers against Namibia at the artificial turf of the Sam Nujoma Stadium Windhoek Namibia.

The raining African champions, The Super Eagles of Nigeria, will be taking on the Harambee Stars of Kenya in a 2014 world Cup Qualifier at UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar, Cross River State today at 4.00pm local time.

  Guinness Foreign Extra Stout , one of the world’s leading stouts and a supporter of the current African champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria, is putting up a show today to conclude the welcoming of the winning team members and the AFCON trophy to Lagos.

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday night conferred on members of the victorious Super Eagles national Honours for winning the African Cup of Nations, AFCON 2013, nineteen years after Nigeria attained that feat.

The super eagles of Nigeria claimed their third Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday night, after a 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso in the AFCON 2013 final played at Soccer City in Johannesburg South Africa.

eagle tramples on elephant Galatasaray of Turkey and Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire defender, Emmanuel Eboue, who through his twitter handle, had boasted that his country will eat the Super Eagles of Nigeria like ‘super fried chicken’ during Sunday’s quarter final match in the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON 2013) in South Africa, congratulated Nigeria and apologized over his comments.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria defeated tournament favorites Ivory Coast 2-1 to reach the semi-finals of the African Cup of Nations, (AFCON 2013) sending Didier Drogba and the entire Elephants of Ivory Coast team home.

Could this be a winning bonus for the super eagles or Nigerians at large? The Association of Nigerian Prostitutes (ANP) has congratulated the Super Eagles of Nigeria for moving on to the Quarter Finals stage of the Orange African Cup of Nations, South Africa 2013, urging them to go for gold.

Two late penalties (78’ and 90’) from forward Victor Moses gave the super eagles of Nigeria a crucial win against Ethiopia and the maximum three points needed to advance to the quarter finals of the ongoing AFCON 2013.

The football friendly match between Nigeria and Catalonia coming up today at 6pm at the Cornella-El Prat Stadium, will be carried live on SuperSport Channel 9. If you are in South Africa tune in to Channel 4 to watch the match live. This will be the second time both teams are meeting at any level. In the first meeting, the Seleccio Catalana trashed the Super Eagles of Nigeria 5-0. The match took place at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis on December 22, 1998. The Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi is not seeking revenge rather the match is used as a tune up game in preparation for the African Nations Cup 2013 (AFCON) coming up later this month. He however agrees that a win for the Super Eagles will go a long way in helping to boost the confidence of the team for AFCON 2013.

                Each member of the Super Eagles team to the AFCON 2013 scheduled to kickoff in January 2013 in South Africa will become N 16M richer if they win the trophy they last won in 1994 if the words from the NFF are anything to go by. Each player is to be paid $100,000 (N16 million) each should Nigeria win the 2013 edition.    According to a report in MTNFootball.com, a top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) official made a disclosed that incentives will not be the Super Eagles problem at the Nations Cup. This sum is made of the winning Bonus of $95,000 and their daily allowance is $5,000, while the chief coach Stephen Keshi will earn double this amount. Here is a breakdown of their earnings 1 st round bonus and daily allowance $10,000 each for a win x 3 =             $30,000 Each for Quarter final win   =  ...

  President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan visited the super eagles in their National Stadium Abuja camp on Wednesday 5 th of September 2012. He urged them to do the nation proud by coming out victorious in their match against the Leone Stars of Liberia in Monrovia on Saturday. During his visit, President Goodluck disclosed that he has set up a special committee at the Federal Executive Council meeting held earlier in the day to find a solution to restoring the lost glory of the nation’s sports. Jonathan said that he believe that the Eagles can still re-enact the Atlanta 1996 Olympic form that gave them the gold medal in football.   The Nigerian National Team, the Super Eagles will be playing against their Liberian counterparts The Leone Stars in a qualifying match for the 2013 African Cup of Nations holding in South Africa. President Goodluck could not hide his displeasure over the poor state of the stadium that has been over grown with weeds, as he order...