The first player to be bought at one million naira in the Nigerian League, Emeka Nwanna popularly called “Ayaya” has joined Abia Warriors Football Club of Umuahia on loan until the end of the current season.
The lethal striker, who made the mega move from Rangers international of Enugu to Enyimba of Aba in 2001, was until his loan move to Umuahia in mid season, on his second missionary journey to Enyimba.
Ayaya told Abia Warriors’ website that he decided to pitch his tent with the Umuahia based outfit to contribute his quota towards the realization of the club’s aspirations.
The former Calabar Rovers, Heartland of Owerri and Kwara Utd hitman, said he simply loves Abia Warriors not only as Enyimba’s sister club but also because of the professional way the club is run adding that his ambition is to help the club pick a continental ticket at the end of the season.
“I love Umuahia because I started my career here with then NEPA Football Club of Umuahia when I was still in the secondary School and I had hoped to return here one day and when the opportunity came, I never hesitated to seize it with both hands”, Nwanna who also played for Tunisian and Qatari Clubs said.
On the secret of his longevity in football, the Anambra state-born striker said he does not indulge in negative influences but takes lots of fruits and vegetables particularly after every training session or after a match
Week 25 games were played in both Division A and Division B of The Nigerian National League over the weekend with only the Dss Fc vs FRSC FC game to come up Today Monday the 25th of August 2014.
Of the seven games played in Division A, and even the eight games in Division B, Plateau Utd’s away victory vs TEAP FC remains the only victory on the road this week. that game ended 1-2 in favour of Plateau Utd.
The Kwara Utd game versus Wikki Tourist In Ilorin Recorded the highest number of gaols in a single game this week in the NNL, with Kwara Scoring 4, while Wikki could only manage 1, to make it a total of 5 goals.
This has now brought Kwara Utd within one point of Wikki who seat on top of the Log with 44 points, while Kwara Utd follow closely on second with 43 points.
The Battle for Promotion in Division B as taken another twist as Shooting Stars lost to First Bank Fc of Lagos 1-0 at the Agege Stadium, while Rivals Gabros Fc Defeated Prime FC 1-0, Gabros and 3SC are now joint first with 41 points each, but Shooting top the league with a Superior goals difference.
The relegation battle is equally interesting if not more intriguing as just like the top of the table nothing much separates six teams at the bottom of both logs.
While its not looking good for Prisons FC, others relegation battlers like FRSC, TEAP and DSS are still in with a shout in Division A.
The Story is not different in Division B as Stationery Stores are now at the bottom of the log with 30 points, same with Unicem Rovers while COD Utd, Prime, Remo and Go Round are caught up in a massive battle for Survival.
Gabros Int’l FC
DIVISION A WEEK TWENTY FIVE RESULTS
Mighty jets 3 – 0 Nig. Prisons FC
Kogi Utd 2 – 0 Jigawa G’ Stars
Sokoto Utd 1 – 0 Niger Tornadoes
Ranchers Bees 3 – 0 Adamawa Utd
Kwara Utd 4 – 1 Wikki Tourist
TEAP FC 1 – 2 Plateau Utd
Supreme Court 1 – 0 Spotlight FC DSS FC vs FRSC FC (25/8/14)
SUMMARY
Total Matches Played 7
Total Goals Scored 16
No of Wins 7
No of Loses 7
No of Draws –
Away Wins 1
MFM FC
DIVISION B WEEK TWENTY FOUR RESULTS
Unicem Rovers 2 – 0 Stationery Stores
Akwa Starlet FC 2 – 1 Go-round
Ekiti Utd 3 – 1 Abia Comets
MFM FC 2 – 1 Gateway FC
FirstBank FC 1 – 0 Shooting Stars
Remo Stars 3 – 0 COD Utd
Gabros FC 1 – 0 Prime FC
ABS 0 – 0 Bendel Insurance
Kwara United FC of Ilorin, have berated the fans of Wikki Tourist of Bauchi over what it describes as “unruly behaviour” of the irate supporters of the club.
The club in a statement on Monday in Ilorin said the harassment of the match officials during week nine encounter involving it and Wikki at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi on Saturday at the close of the first 45minutes led to the centre referee Jonathan Zakariyah from Kaduna making all calls in Favour of the host.
The statement added that some fans of Wikki Tourist had attacked those supporting the visitors when they raised placards in support of the Afonja Warriors in the morning during the pre-match talks.
“It said our Bauchi fans were brutally attacked on Saturday morning when they came to meet us and support us when we arrived at the stadium for pre-match talks”
“Our bench was also attacked mid way into the second 45 when one of the fans obstructed the player warming up to come in”
“Because of the half time harassment, the referee made every call in Favour of the host and awarded a penalty to the host in the 61st minute converted by Mohammed Ahmed in the 62nd minute”
“When our Media Officer was taking pictures of the attack on our bench, some fans protested and even attempted to take his gadgets from him” the statement said.
The club urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to tighten security around match officials in the Nigeria National League(NNL) as it remains the foundation of our Premier League.
The statement expressed confidence in the board of the NFF led by Alhaji Aminu Maigari and that of the NNL to deliver quality football to Nigerians.
Wikki Tourists Football Club was in ruthless form yesterday as the Bauchi-based team walloped the visiting TEAP FC four nil to still lead the Nigeria National League (NNL) Division A just as Gabros International which lost woefully to Go=Round FC in Omoku on Friday is Division B frontrunner.
Gabros was beaten three nil in a better forgotten weekend which also saw Prime FC fumble to a 2-2 home draw with Mountain of Fire and Miracle (MFM) of Lagos.
However, it was sweet victories for Plateau United which beat Supreme Court 2-0 and Adamawa United which defeated Spotlight 2-1 even as Niger Tornadoes and Nigerian Prisons recorded wins against Ranchers Bees and Kogi United respectively.
City of David (COD) FC and Akwa Starlets played 1-1 draw while Gateway and First Bank FC also ended their match 2-2. But Bendel Insurace beat Ekiti United 2-1 and Abia Comets thrashed Shooting Stars of Ibadan 2-0. See results below:
3SC, ABS, Wikki Tourist and Kwara Utd join 28 other teams in the Nigerian National League to battle for promotion to the Nigerian Premier League
The Jan 25th of January has been scheduled for the kick-off of the 2013/2014 Nigerian Premier League Season, a total of 32 teams will go head to head has they all seek promotion into Nigeria’s Top flight.
The Nigeria National League has announced the full list of clubs that will be participating in the second tier of Nigerian football this season. Giwa FC, FC Taraba, Abia Warriors and Crown FC have all been promoted to the Nigeria Professional Football League, another set of four teams have also been promoted to the NNL from the third tier, while relegated teams from the Nigerian Professional Football League(NPFL) have all been thrown into the mix with all existing NNL teams to make a total number of 32 teams.
Relegated NPFL teams, Kwara utd and Wikki Tourist have been placed in group A while their other NPFL counterpart Shooting Stars and Abubakar Bukola Saraki are in group B.
Group A
Nigerian Prisons FC
Kwara United F.C.
FRSC FC
Ranchers Bees
DSS
Kaduna FC
Teap FC Abuja,
Mighty Jets of Jos
Spotlight FC
Sokoto United FC
Plateau United FC
Kogi-United FC FC
Adamawa United FC
Jigawa Golden Stars FC
Wikki Tourist FC
Niger Tornadoes FC
Supreme Court FC.
Group B
Akwa Starlets FC
Abia Comets FC
Remo Stars FC
Gabros International FC
Prime FC
C.O.D United Football Club FC
Gateway United FC
Unicem Rovers FC
MFM International FC
Union Bank FC
First Bank FC
Canaan FC
3SC
ABS FC
Bendel Insurance FC
Go-round FC.
The Nigeria National League as announced at the congress last Thursday will start January 25 2014.
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