FIFA ranking: Super Eagles drop to 13th in Africa

World’s football governing body, FIFA has released its rankings for the month of October, and the Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped five spots on the rankings and are now 63rd in the world.
The team also dropped out of the top 10 to now occupy the 13th position in Africa, coming after Cape Verde and Central African Republic.
Elephants of Cote’ d Ivoire remain the highest ranked African team on the list; they occupy the 16th position in the world and number one on the continent.
Algeria, Mali, Ghana and Egypt follow in that order, making it up the top five, while African champions, Zambia are in sixth position and are 41 in the world.
Tunisia, Gabon, Central African Republic and Cape Verde are the other countries that are in the top 10 in the continent.

Top tennis players to storm Lagos for Governor’s cup

Nina Bratchikova of Russia is one of the top female tennis players expected to hit Lagos for the 12th edition of the Governor’s cup.
Nina, ranked 93 in the world will slug it out for the $50,000 prize money in the women’s event with Kristina Kucova of Slovakia, Germany’s Anne Schaefer, and Melanie Klaffner of Austria.
Fatimah Abinu, Christie Agugbom, Chinenye Ndidi and Blessing Samuel are some of the Nigerian ladies who have registered for the competition scheduled to hold from October the  13th -27th  at the Lagos lawn tennis, Onikan.
France’s Laurent Rochette is leading the pack in the men’s category.
He will be joined by Kamil Capkovic of Slovakia, India’s Ranjeet Virali and South Africa’s Ruan Roelofse.