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Super Eagles forward Gbolahan Fuad Salami has completed his move to Serbian side Red Star Belgrade on a three year deal on Saturday. According to source close to the player(Salami), the former Youth Teamer Gbolahan landed in Serbia on Thursday to complete his anticipated transfer from Nigeria domestic league to Europe.  The 23-year-old striker began his football career with Sunshine Star of Akure in the year 2008, spent two season before moving to Shooting Star Sports Club(3SC) of Ibadan in 2010, he spent four years at 3SC. Last year (2014)  he was snapped up by Warri Wolves , where he netted a total of 17 goals for the Warri base team in the Nigeria Professional Football League. He was invited by Super Eagles handler Stephen Keshi in January 2014 for African Nations Championship held in South Africa. Gbolahan has netted twice for Nigeria senior team in 12 appearances.

“We can have democracy in this country,  or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,  but we can’t have both”      A census on the problems of Nigeria in the order of severity and impact would have corruption as the most constantly mentioned anomaly. From such a conclusion just as the problem poll conducted by the major opposition in Nigeria, APC would give the impression that most Nigerians are well aware of the major drawback to development.  Conversely, this conclusion would not be too right. Due to the prevalence, magnitude and severity of the attacks by the fiendish Boko Haram many might justifiably say that insecurity is the biggest challenge facing the nation. Only a few can see the corollary between corruption and insecurity. To the average Nigerian corruption is what happens in government when officials use state funds to live a life of affluence above their basic salary. The masses can’t fathom how corruption is directly responsible for inse

Cote D'Ivoire and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure edge out Nigeria and Lille shot stopper Vincent Enyeama and Gabonese and Borussia Dortmund attacker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, to win his fourth straight CAF African Footballer Of the year Award in Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday night. Yaya, is the first African player to win the award fourth straight time in a roll and equals Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto'o Fils who has also won the awards four times.  In the Women category, Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala won the best Female footballer of the year Award beat compatriot Desire Oparanozie and Cameroon goalkeeper Annette Ngom Ndom. The 20-year-old attacker also won the Youth Player of the Year Award. GLO CAF AWARDS 2014: Africa Player of The Year: YAYA TOURE. African Player of The Year in Africa: FIRMIN NBELE NDUMBE Women Player of The Year: ASISAT OSHOALA (Nigeria) National Team of The Year: ALGERIA Women National Team of The Year: NIGERIA

NFF president Amaju Pinnick has ordered Dolphins forward Emem Eduok out of the Super Eagles ‘B’ training camp ahead of friendlies against Cote d'Ivoire and Sudan in the UAE following the controversy surrounding his transfer overseas. Eduok has signed for top Tunisian club Esperance, but a Norwegian club are now laying claim to the same player. “We are not happy with the cloud of controversy over his transfer issue and it is a terrible distraction to the team and Nigerian football generally,” Pinnick said. “Telling him to leave the camp does not mean we are indicting him. We will carry out an investigation and whoever is found guilty, be he/she an agent or player manager or an official of his club, will be duly sanctioned.” According to the release made available to AfricanFootball.com by assistant director communications in the NFF, Demola Olajire, the NFF president has mandated the chairman of technical and development committee, Felix Anyansi-Agwu, to conduct an investigation int

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will open an inquest into the transfer imbroglio involving Super Eagles winger Emem Eduok. The 20-year-old has been caught in the web of two clubs, Sarpsborg 08 and Esperance, after he reportedly signed for both clubs. Supersport.com first reported in December that the Dolphins winger, Eduok, travelled to Norway to pen a deal with Sarpsborg 08, which the club's sporting director, Thomas Berntsen, confirmed in a telephone conversation. "Yes Emem signed a four-year contract with Sarpsborg in December and we expect him to resume on January 18 after the friendly matches for the Nigerian national team," Berntsen told supersport.com on Sunday. But Eduok has also reportedly signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Esperance last week. The NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, is dismayed by the happenings and said the federation "will investigate this matter and come up with recommendations." “Look at the cloud of controve

Chelsea star Mikel Obi has been named the English Premier League’s African Player of the Month of December. In a statement by the organisers New African Soccer, Mikel was voted and selected ahead of West Ham’s Cameroonian Alex Song and Southampton striker, Senegalese Sadio Mane in a tight vote process. Awards director ‘Tunde Adelakun said “as always, it was a difficult choice, but a lot of factors came into consideration before we selected Mikel”. “Mikel has endured a difficult start to the season, falling down the pecking order in a star-studded Chelsea team that is riding high in the Premier League. After all, we all know that no one likes changing a winning team. However, the spirit of professionalism which he displayed in waiting for his chance, and taking it well with some solid performances in a difficult month, tipped the award his way this month,” Adelakun said. Commending the performances of Alex Song and Sadio Mane, the statement said, “Mane has settled into his role in the P

Super Eagles Captain and Lille of France Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has been adjourned best goalkeeper in France for the 2014 calendar year. Former Enyimba goalkeeper Enyeama, was on top of his game last year where he shone like a million star for both Country and club, where he went on to kept some clean sheets in the French Ligue 1 and made a lot of brilliant saves at the World Cup. The 32-year-old Goalkeeper who is just five matches away from making his century of cap for Nigeria senior team, was named among the best eleven players in the Ligue 1 for the year 2014 by L' Equipe newspaper.  Others on the best eleven for 2014 are: PGG left back Sherrer Cabelino Maxwell, Grégory Van Der Wiel(PSG), Simon Kjaer (Lille), Nicolas Nkoulou (Olympique Marseille), Jérémy Toulalan (Monaco), Marco Veratti (PSG), Javier Pastore (PSG), Paul-Georges Ntep (Rennes)  Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG) and Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon).