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So someone called to ask who Anthony Nwakaeme is. I gave him a lowdown on the Hapoel Beer Sheva striker and what he can bring to the Super Eagles. 'Tony' is big, strong, pacy and quite technical or a lad his size. He also has pace to burn. Here is a video of the 28 year old doing some wonderful things with the ball Enjoy the video.

  The Super Eagles will aim to achieve a 12 th   triumph over the Lions of Cameroon when both teams go for each other’s jugular at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo   on Friday . In 19 previous encounters, Nigeria have been winners 11 times, with Cameroon winning four times and four matches drawn. Of these games, three happened to be the Final matches of the Africa Cup of Nations (all won by Cameroon, including a nail –biting penalty shoot-out session in Lagos in February 2000), and there were two different fixtures of FIFA World Cup qualifiers (1968 and 1989) shared equally. Nigeria eliminated Cameroon from the qualifying race for 1970 World Cup finals, winning 3-2 in Douala after a 1-1 draw in Lagos. But the Lions took their revenge in 1989, snatching the minimum win they needed in Yaounde (1-0) to kick the Eagles out of the race for Italia ’90, only two weeks after Sam Okwaraji’s death.  While Cameroonians treasure the wins in...

It's crunch time in the Nigeria Professional Football League as we head into the final stretch. Match Day 36 is here upon us. Nine games across the country as teams do battle for places on the log. Akwa United beat Lobi Stars 2-1 in Uyo on Friday to open this weekend's proceedings. Leaders Plateau United will be home to Rivers United in a game that hopefully should go well for my home state team. A win and we are one hand on the title before the final game against Rangers. Sunshine Stars travel to Katsina, Gombe host ABS while Enyimba will be hosting Wikki Tourists in Calabar. Below is a graphic of all the games. I also did a preview on the game via a pod, here is the link in case you missed it. Listen here Do go to a stadium near you and watch your favourite team play.

Had to do this quickly and didn't edit properly because of reasons beyond me. My preview of this weekend's games in the NPFL and a little bit about the Super Eagles and the Aiteo Cup. Do enjoy it and please leave comments below on areas I can improve on and what you will like to see added to the podcasts which by the way will be a regular thing now.

Touted to be better than Kelechi Iheanacho at U17 level, Ibrahim Alhassan aka Muazzam has left Nigeria Professional Football League side Akwa United for Austrain Bundesliga side Austria Vienna who had Kayode Olarenwaju in their books before his move to Girona via Manchester City. Muazzam was part of the Super Eagles squad that defeated Benin 2-0 in Kano less than a week ago. We wish him all the best in his career.

I woke up this morning to a video of former Kwara United forward Samuel Adegbenro scoring a fantastic goal for his new side FK Rosenborg as they defeated Ajax Amsterdam in the Europa League. The victory meant Rosenborg are into the group stage of the Europa League. Thing is, I totally missed his move to the Norwegian giants. Last I watched him, he was strutting his stuff with Viking in Norway. Here is the goal against Ajax. Brilliant individual effort I must say. 🇳🇬 Nigeria's Samuel Adegbenro with a brilliant solo effort for Rosenborg vs Ajax, the goal could see them thru to next round of EuropaLeague pic.twitter.com/u18pQ3NqOW — Mesfouf & Koshary (@MesfoufKoshary) August 24, 2017 So in honor of the forward I had to go dig out a video of Adegbenro-goals, skills and assists. Who knows, he might just be the next big thing.

Team captain Mikel John Obi and forward Odion Ighalo are back, and Israel –based marksman Anthony Nwakaeme gets a first call as Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, on Tuesday released his list of players for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying duels with Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions. Germany –based defender Leon Balogun returns after missing the World Cup qualifier against Algeria and the Africa Cup qualifier against South Africa, while Chelsea of England’s wing back Victor Moses is also back after sitting out the duel with the Bafana Bafana in June due to injury. Rohr has largely kept faith with his regular army, including goalkeepers Daniel Akpeyi, Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Dele Alampasu, defenders William Ekong, Elderson Echiejile and Abdullahi Shehu, midfielders Ogenyi Onazi, John Ogu, Wilfred Ndidi and Oghenekaro Etebo, and forwards Ahmed Musa, Moses Simon, Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho. Nigeria welcome the reigning African champions to the Godswill Akpa...