Kicking off!

Without doubt, the most topical issue in Nigerian football at the moment is the face-off between the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick and football stakeholders opposed to his ambition to become a member of the CAF Executive Committee and also ensuring the incumbent CAF president, Issa Hayatou is voted out.

This has sharply divided football stakeholders as some are for the NFF president while others are bent on frustrating his latest ambition. Amid the hullabaloo, the minister of sports on Tuesday announced government’s support for Pinnick.

As the open confrontation between the NFF president and his opponents has remained unabated, our cover story focuses on the ongoing disagreement and how both camps are adopting different strategies to win the battle.

We have for your reading delight a captivating interview with the Technical Adviser of ABS FC, Henry Makinwa. He spoke to us on his team’s ambition in the NPFL and other topical issues in Nigerian football.

It will also interest you to know that Tiger Woods and Ian Poulter have welcomed the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A) and the United States Golf Association’s proposals to significantly change the rules of golf in order to make them simpler and easier to understand.

In addition, undefeated American boxing sensation, Floyd Mayweather may return to the ring to fight Kazakhstan middleweight world boxing champion, Gennady Golovkin.

And our Euro Round up is spicy with the preview of the English Premier League fixtures between West Ham United and leaders Chelsea and Hull City versus Leicester City.

We also have fixtures of all the weekend matches in the top European leagues for you.

Our sports in numbers is also there for you to read and enjoy some of the events that unfolded within the week.

This is the line up of stories we have packaged in this edition for your weekend relaxation.

Do have a wonderful weekend.