RUGBY CONCESSION BOARD SNUBS NOC!

The Concession board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation once again snubbed the Nigeria Olympic Committee & the National Sports Commission on the inauguration date requested of them by the NOC President Eng. Sani Ndanusa and communicated to them by the Secretary General Mr. Tunde Popoola in a mail immediately after the aborted inauguration which was boycotted on the 24th of May 2011.

The Nigeria Olympic Committee Secretary General had in his reply mail to Mr. Kayode Oguntayo on the aborted inauguration of the newly elected board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation midwifed by the NOC & NSC in the last five months requested for a date & time to be communicated before the 3rd of June 2011 which was on 3rd, June, 2011. This directive unfortunately was once again ignored by the concession board President Dr. Richard Ajayi & Mr. Kayode Oguntayo.

In the communication by the NOC Secretary General, which read, "I confirm receipt of your letter a few minutes to the planned inauguration of your Rugby Federation yesterday 24th May, 2011 at the NOC Office, Lagos.

We appreciated the reasons for the inability of the President and members not being present at the occasion.

It is however, noted that eight (8) members of the Board were present for the inauguration. We however, postponed the event.

We would therefore in the light of this wish to be advised of an appropriate date and time suitable for the President and members for the inauguration.

Can we have the date and time before the end of the next week ending 3rd June, 2011".

With the way the concession board of the Rugby Federation are going, one wonders the sincerity to which this factional head of Rugby in Nigeria hope to resolve the lingering leadership crisis rocking the Federation which have brought the game to its lowest ebb in the country in recent years.

It is hoped that these people who have decided to run the game like their personal property will realize that they were only given the Federation in trust for a period of time and have to be accountable to these sporting authorities, otherwise it may spell doom for the sport in the country, and rob off on all rugby stakeholders in the country.

We hope that they will allow reasoning to prevail and bring all rugby stakeholders on board for meaningful progress of the game in Nigeria.

RUGBY CONCESSION BOARD SNUBS NOC!

The Concession board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation once again snubbed the Nigeria Olympic Committee & the National Sports Commission on the inauguration date requested of them by the NOC President Eng. Sani Ndanusa and communicated to them by the Secretary General Mr. Tunde Popoola in a mail immediately after the aborted inauguration which was boycotted on the 24th of May 2011.

The Nigeria Olympic Committee Secretary General had in his reply mail to Mr. Kayode Oguntayo on the aborted inauguration of the newly elected board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation midwifed by the NOC & NSC in the last five months requested for a date & time to be communicated before the 3rd of June 2011 which was on 3rd, June, 2011. This directive unfortunately was once again ignored by the concession board President Dr. Richard Ajayi & Mr. Kayode Oguntayo.

In the communication by the NOC Secretary General, which read, "I confirm receipt of your letter a few minutes to the planned inauguration of your Rugby Federation yesterday 24th May, 2011 at the NOC Office, Lagos.

We appreciated the reasons for the inability of the President and members not being present at the occasion.

It is however, noted that eight (8) members of the Board were present for the inauguration. We however, postponed the event.

We would therefore in the light of this wish to be advised of an appropriate date and time suitable for the President and members for the inauguration.

Can we have the date and time before the end of the next week ending 3rd June, 2011".

With the way the concession board of the Rugby Federation are going, one wonders the sincerity to which this factional head of Rugby in Nigeria hope to resolve the lingering leadership crisis rocking the Federation which have brought the game to its lowest ebb in the country in recent years.

It is hoped that these people who have decided to run the game like their personal property will realize that they were only given the Federation in trust for a period of time and have to be accountable to these sporting authorities, otherwise it may spell doom for the sport in the country, and rob off on all rugby stakeholders in the country.

We hope that they will allow reasoning to prevail and bring all rugby stakeholders on board for meaningful progress of the game in Nigeria.

Nigeria bows to Kuwait in World Cricket League

Kuwait cruised to its third victory of Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 7 (WCL Div.7) after defeating Nigeria by nine wickets at Lobatse.

Nigeria got off to a bad start when, after Ademola Onikoyi had taken the first run his opening partner, Ramit Gill was dismissed for a duck leaving the Africans reeling 1-1.

Things didn’t get much better for the side with Segun Olayinka and captain Endurance Ofem were dismissed totaling just 10 runs between them. Responsibility then fell once again to player-coach Sean Philips who proved the cornerstone again of the innings hitting a 125-ball 75 to stabilise the innings.

The 20-year-old fast bowler claimed 5-24 including the key wickets of Philips and Olayinka to make sure that his side had a small total to chase down in the second innings. It was then up to Irfan Bhatti and Abid Mushtaq to knock off the runs but not before Abid departed for 16 leaving Bhatti and Saad Qamar to finish off the innings for the team. Bhatti smashed his way to 83 not out off 76 balls in an innings that included eight boundaries and four sixes by the 32-year-old right-handed batsman and guided the team to victory alongside Qamar who walked away with a half-century.

Man of the match Saad Khalid said, “It is obviously great to make it three wins out of three for the tournament but we can’t rest on today’s win – we face Germany tomorrow and we know they’ll want a good match especially since they lost to us in the final of Division 8. “I was pleased with the way I bowled today and it was good to dismiss Sean Philips as we know he was the key man in the Nigeria side along with their top order.”

Friday (May 6), will see Germany take on Kuwait at BCA 1, Japan will play Nigeria at BCA 2 and hosts Botswana head to Lobatse to play Norway.

In other news, Hosts Botswana defeated Germany by two wickets in a thrilling match at BCA Oval 1 while despite a valiant effort by Japan’s batsmen the side from the East Asia-Pacific region lost out to Norway at BCA Oval 2 by 53 runs.