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- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Who remembers MONDAY ODIAKA?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 905
Re: Who remembers MONDAY ODIAKA?
Monday Odiaka: 34 years after, my Guinness record goal still special The Nation December 29, 2019 Monday Odiaka of ACB Football Club and Nigeria’s prolific striker cannot remember the numbers of goals he has scored. He rose to fame at the 1985 World Youth Championship in Soviet Union, now Russia, wh...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Flaming Flamingo: The Life and Times of Israel Adebayo
- Replies: 4
- Views: 158
Re: Flaming Flamingo: The Life and Times of Israel Adebayo
The updated version piece, i presume, is now in this new book - https://www.routledge.com/Global-Africa ... 1032667126
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:02 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Flaming Flamingo: The Life and Times of Israel Adebayo
- Replies: 4
- Views: 158
Flaming Flamingo: The Life and Times of Israel Adebayo
Flaming Flamingo: The Life and Times of Israel Adebayo by Adekeye Adebajo Israel Adebayo Ogunyeade Adebajo was born on 21 January 1920 in the south-western town of Imobi in the fishing district of Epe in Lagos State, which had been the capital of the Ijebu Kingdom in the 18th century. He was born un...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP: Kayode Tijani
- Replies: 10
- Views: 336
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP: Kayode Tijani
- Replies: 10
- Views: 336
Re: RIP: Kayode Tijani
Tribute By Dr. Mumini Alao I am writing this tribute reluctantly. In my Yoruba culture and, I guess, in most other cultures, the hope and prayer is that the young will mourn and bury the old, not the other way round. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen that way. Sometimes, the old have to bury a...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP: Kayode Tijani
- Replies: 10
- Views: 336
RIP: Kayode Tijani
Ace Nigerian sports journalist, Kayode Tijani dies in Lagos Anthony Nlebem February 8, 2024 The Nigerian sports fraternity was thrown into pandemonium following the news of the death of prominent Sports journalist Kayode Tijani. Tijani reportedly died at 55 years old on Wednesday night February 7, 2...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 4:22 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Tunji Banjo: Shares his story and life after soccer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 278
Tunji Banjo: Shares his story and life after soccer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5590971/Tunji-Banjo-FA-Cup-semi-finalist-works-trains.html#ixzz5C6ggplMy/ Tunji Banjo was an FA Cup semi-finalist for Leyton Orient in 1978 on £100-a-week... exactly 40 years later, he works on the trains for his living Tunji Banjo was 18 and earni...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 4:05 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Very sad story of John Chidozie (UPDATED)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5799
Re: Very sad story of John Chidozie (UPDATED)
Stumbled on this old thread as I was thinking of Green Eagles of the 1980s, and digging for information some of the iconic players that I used data on when I was "super young"
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP Philip Boamah
- Replies: 21
- Views: 598
Re: RIP Philip Boamah
RIP Coach
- Thu May 18, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: A sad day indeed. Enugu 11 lost his Dad
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1101
Re: A sad day indeed. Enugu 11 lost his Dad
E11: Please accept my condolences. May the Lord grant you the grace to bear the loss.
- Fri May 12, 2023 4:07 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 348
Re: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
Looks like Enugu Rangers don narrowly escape relegation :woot: Not yet...they need to beat Rivers United next weekend to escape. If Rivers United beat Rangers in Enugu and Bayelsa United win at home (and Wikki Tourists win their remaining two matches), Rangers might join Kano Pillars in NNL next ye...
- Tue May 09, 2023 3:11 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 348
Re: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
Looks like Enugu Rangers don narrowly escape relegation :woot: Not yet...they need to beat Rivers United next weekend to escape. If Rivers United beat Rangers in Enugu and Bayelsa United win at home (and Wikki Tourists win their remaining two matches), Rangers might join Kano Pillars in NNL next ye...
- Mon May 08, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 348
Re: Bendel Insurance FC v Shooting Stars SC
Looks like Enugu Rangers don narrowly escape relegation :woot: Not yet...they need to beat Rivers United next weekend to escape. If Rivers United beat Rangers in Enugu and Bayelsa United win at home (and Wikki Tourists win their remaining two matches), Rangers might join Kano Pillars in NNL next ye...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP: Coach Ismaila Mabo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 484
Re: RIP: Coach Ismaila Mabo
‘Jos and death of the Field Marshall’ – A small tribute By Segun Odegbami 18 March 2023 | 4:03 am At dawn of March 13, 2023, the ‘Field Marshall’ died. The sound of messages bombarding my phone woke me up that morning. The first came from my former classmate and childhood friend, retired Director-Ge...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: RIP: Coach Ismaila Mabo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 484
RIP: Coach Ismaila Mabo
Legendary Falcons coach Ismaila Mabo passes on Fisayo Dairo Last updated: 2023/03/13 at 7:52 AM A Legendary former head coach of Nigeria’s women’s senior national team, the Super Falcons; Ismaila Mabo has passed on according to reports from his family. Mabo, 78, passed on in the early hours of Monda...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:49 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 720
Re: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
According to this story, the urine was meant to neutralize the juju of Akwa United. Read below: SUSPENDED 3SC MAN CLASHED WITH AKWA COACH HOURS BEFORE MATCH - February 24, 2023 By Oluseyi Adedire Twitter/Instagram: @oyosportsnews FB: Oyo Sports Update The embattled Shooting Stars Camp Commandant, Aw...
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 720
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 720
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 720
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: IBADAN PITCH URINATION EARNS A MERE $1000 FINE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 720
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:27 am
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - Finidi George's Enyimba are the winners!!!
- Replies: 73
- Views: 30316
Re: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - MD 1 Results
Water don find its level. Enugu Rangers dey rock the bottom of the table.
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - Finidi George's Enyimba are the winners!!!
- Replies: 73
- Views: 30316
Re: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - Kicks off Sunday (Akwa Utd vs Bendel Insurance)
Results for week 1:
Akwa Utd 0-2 Bendel Insurance
Nasarawa Utd 1-2 Enyimba
Rangers 0-2 Abia Warriors
Wikki 0-2 Tornadoes
Plateau Utd 3-3 Shooting
Remo Stars 2-0 El-Kanemi
Bayelsa Utd 1-1 Dakkada
Rivers Utd 2-1 Lobi Stars
Kwara Utd 0-0 Gombe Utd
Doma Utd 1-1 Sunshine.
Akwa Utd 0-2 Bendel Insurance
Nasarawa Utd 1-2 Enyimba
Rangers 0-2 Abia Warriors
Wikki 0-2 Tornadoes
Plateau Utd 3-3 Shooting
Remo Stars 2-0 El-Kanemi
Bayelsa Utd 1-1 Dakkada
Rivers Utd 2-1 Lobi Stars
Kwara Utd 0-0 Gombe Utd
Doma Utd 1-1 Sunshine.
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: EAGLES NEST
- Topic: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - Finidi George's Enyimba are the winners!!!
- Replies: 73
- Views: 30316
Re: 2023 Nigerian Professional Football League - Kicks off Sunday (Akwa Utd vs Bendel Insurance)
Plateau Utd 3-3 Shooting Stars Former Champions Plateau fought back from 3-1 to hold 3SC in Jos. Very good start....Looks like the attacking line will be lethal this year. 3 goals on the road is commendable. That said, I hope the coaches fix lapses in the defence. We need to pick more points on the...