Fidelity Bank management has warned against the planned disruption of service and media attacks on the bank by some outsourced workers describing the action as unwarranted and misdirected.
According to a statement from the bank “our attention has been drawn to the planned disruption of services and social media attacks on the bank by a few outsourced staff who were recently recalled by their employers.
The move which is the handiwork of the outsourced staff who were on secondment to the bank as note counters, is aimed at casting the bank in bad light.
Their employers have confirmed to the bank that their recall was conducted in line with their existing contracts and according to extant labour laws.
As a responsible financial institution, operating in Nigeria Fidelity Bank is guided by the law of the land.
While we are not against the right to peaceful assembly, the planned action directed at Fidelity Bank, by this misguided individuals are clearly unwarranted and misguided.”
Fidelity Bank therefore, urged the public to discountenance” the falsehood and claims being circulated by them in the public domain.”
The Theatre of Dreams as the Manchester United Football Club Stadium is called will be filled to capacity as British top clubs, Manchester United and Arsenal Football Club will lock horns in their Barclays English Premier League fixture.
Both teams are occupying the 5th and 11th position in the premier league log. Tonight’s host, Manchester United, is occupying the 11th position on the pole after six matches, losing two, winning two and drawing two.
This will be the third time coach Ole Gunnar Solksjaer will lead his team out of the tunnel to face Arsenal.
First was last season in the Emirates FA Cup fixture, with Solksjaer having the better of Coach Unai Emery side 3-1.
In their premier league fixture last season, Emery defeated Solksjaer 2-0 to end the season above Solksjaer’s Manchester United side.
Tonight, Emery has promised to use all the armoury in his Arsenal to triumph over Solksjaer at the Old Trafford Stadium, having led his side to a spectacular comeback against Aston Villa, despite being a goal down with Ainsley Maitland-Niles sent off for a bad tackle on El-Ghazi, his team won 3-2, while Solksjaer team are coming to this match from a 2-0 loss to West Ham United.
North- London side, Arsenal have won three matches, lost one and drew two matches to remain fifth on the log.
No doubt, both teams will want to prove their mettle and remain in the contest of who wins the coveted English Premier League for the 2019/2020 season.
Emery is expected to field Leno, Sokratis, Luiz, Bellerin, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Torreira, Ceballos, Xhaka, Pepe and Aubameyang in his starting line up.
For Solksjaer, he is expected to start De Gea, Lindelof, Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Young, Pogba, Mc Tominay, Lingard, James, Martial and Rashford in his first eleven.
All road leads to Old Trafford for the explosive football rival between Manchester and London.
The 2023 presidential elections campaign appears to have kicked off in top gear as the North and South-west gear up for the top job. The North, particularly the North West, appear to have started serious consultations towards the elections. But it appears the North east is not as keen as the west, just as little has been heard of the activities of the South east towards the presidency come 2023.
North east is the home zone of Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP
Already the bid is threatening to tear the South west apart, with the Vice president coming under attack due to his perceived presidential ambition by the ruling elites, which power brokers are concentrated in the North West.
This magazine has reported that about three governors from the North east have their eyes on the pie, and three ex governors and a sitting governor from the south west.
Recently, campaign posters of Kaduna state governors, Nasir el Rufai, and former governor Bola Tinubu are seen in Lagos and Abuja. Tinubu is said to be planning a subtle launch of his political campaign on 1st October. But there has not been any voice from the South east, apart from lone voices from the North and Ohaneze Ndigbo saying it is the turn of the Igbos.
The Silence appears deafening. But not anymore.
Ohaneze youths Worldwide has declared that they will do anything it takes to pursue an Igbo presidency come 2023. In a communique issued on Sunday, signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, President General of the group and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, Secretary General, the group stated that they will raise money at the end of 2022 to support any person chosen by the group to contest.
“We urge all Igbo presidential aspirants to start to activate their contacts towards building bridges across six geopolitical zones of Nigeria”, the communiqué said. According to them, the push was based on equity and fairness.
“Based on justice, equity and fairness, the 2023 presidency project of Igbo stock had kicked off in Enyimba city with a national committee set up to reach out to other prominent leaders/stakeholders and youth leaders from the six geopolitical zones. Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council in the diaspora had promised to raise huge funds running into millions of dollars by end of 2022 to support whoever the youths nominate among the current southeast governors or former governors as Igbo presidential candidate ahead of 2023 presidential election.”
The joy of every mother is to have a successful, famous son. It is every mother’s pride. But, in the case of one woman, Mrs Ogere Betty Siasia, her son’s fame and success are her nemesis, her curse, and, a death warrant, almost.
Her son is former Super Eagles player and coach, Samson Yebowei Siasia. And the irony: It Siasia’s kinsmen, who, instead of celebrating him, break his heart by kidnapping his mother. Two times, she has been kidnapped, and tortured emotionally.
In the instant case, she was kept for 72 days, and released only on Sunday. Cried the 80- year- old woman on her release, “They say they kidnap me because my son is a millionaire”.
Mrs Siasia had been abducted since July 15th, 2019, from her Odoni residence in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
According to the Bayelsa State Police Command, she was released on Sunday. Before her release, a relation who was sent to deliver money for her release about two weeks ago, was, also abducted. Both were released on Sunday. While Mrs Siasia said she was not physically tortured, the ransome money bearer said he was tortured morning, afternoon and night.
Incidentally, while she was in the kidnappers’ den, her famous son was banned for life, by FIFA, from taking part in any football activities over alleged match fixing.
Confirming her release, the Police Public Relation Officer of the Bayelsa State Police Command, ASP Butswat, said she regained freedom from her abductors early Sunday Morning, but did not immediately give details of the development.
Her kidnappers had demanded about N100m, which they kept reducing.
This is not the first time Siasia’s mother will be abducted by kidnappers. In November 2015, she suffered the same fate, and was later released, with the family not disclosing whether any ransom was paid for her release or not, just like now. This time, she was released in a community Unknown to her, and had to find her way home.
Forget China. Forget Britain. Forget USA. Our next colonial masters are from Mumbai.
India, a country that fought and gained independence from her Majesty, the Queen of England, shortly before Nigeria got her own has made giant strides in all ramifications. She has become the one-stop destination for medical tourism for African countries, particularly Nigeria. And they have grown in technology, with brand names to themselves.
As at 2017, they boasted of 2.6 trillion USD (surpassing their former colonial masters, which only has 1.1 trillion USD GDP within the period under review) , with an expectation of 7% growth by 2020 through 2019. In fact, the Asian Developement Bank, ADB, had to trim their forecast from 7.2% to 7%, because, according to them, the “Fiscal outlook in 2018 fell short”. This is slightly higher than the Fitch rating, which was put at 6.6% (reviewd from a slightly higher volume of 6.8%.) Nigeria, on the other hand, was struggling with 375.8 billion USD during the period under review. Projections, which are at best unrealistic, put expectations at 500 billion USD.
India got independence from Britain 23 years before Nigeria.
Part of the Indian success story was the clinging to their cultural heritages. First, they maintained their language, which they developed further. Nigeria had-well, mother tongue. (Whatever that means.)
Besides Hollywood, Bollywood is arguably the highest grossing film industry in the world. Last year, the most watched soap in the world was a Bollywood flick from the stable of Zee World, Twist Of Fate. Another is on the way to replace it-Mehek, also on the stable of Zee World. And Zee World is already tearing families apart in Nigeria.
Men have taken to Facebook and twitter to demand for the ban of Zee World. A cross section of men interviewed on the streets of Lagos indicated their disenfranchisement from watching the television in their house. Many called for the outright ban on Zee World.
Jude, with twitter handle @bobliite, complained: “Those two Channels (Zee World and Telemundo, a south American Soap) are ruining my family. My sister burns food and Mama defends her”. Bow and go, @chyke11 said: “#wives won’t let us watch TV”. Men are suffering under the so called Zee World”, Edwin Eze, a business man complained. “I had to fight with my family to watch Football. Most times I am forced to go to drinking joints just to escape them. DSTV should ban it. It is tearing families apart”
Women are known to now go to the market to look for “Pragia Skirt” or “Mehek Sari”. And a new lexicon is born in Nigeria: Namaste, the Indian greeting.
The series are usually of basic themes of love, betrayal, property ownership and terrorism. For the first time, Zee World inculcated Africans in the series Mehek. But there is a promise that future series are going to inculcate Nigerian actors, according to Multichoice.
The National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Ayokunle, insists that Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is innocent of the accusation levelled against him over the alleged N90 Billion Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, election fund.
Ayokunle stressed that Osinbajo’s accusers are trying to soil his name and drag it Into the mud.
Speaking at the Christian Ecumenical Center, Ayokunle said Osinbajo is innocent, and has remained steadfast in his quest to make the nation great and respected among the comity of Nations.
Ayokunle added that he was ready to mobilize Christians against any act to destroy the legacies, policies and works of the Vice President.
Since the story made the rounds in the media, neither the Anambra State Government, nor the Members of the State House of Assembly, has denied it. Meaning: The story is true.
So, will the Members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, ANHA, stand up for a standing ovation? They should. They deserve it.
Without a dissenting voice, they reportedly, rejected the idea to be gifted with foreign made SUVs. They preferred the one manufactured by their kinsman, Innocent Chukwuma, who set up a vehicle manufacturing company, named Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, IVM.
The government had, reportedly, budgetted a whopping one billion Naira for the purchase of the vehicles in foreign land. But the Lawmakers looked the government in the eye, and said: Not in our names.
They rightly termed that huge amount of money a waste, a waste of the state’s scarce resources, and the People’s money. And, especially, now, when most Nigerians are going through hell. It is difficult to feed their families. It is an uphill task to pay their children’s school fees. As a result of those and the insecurity in the land, they hardly sleep. And, we have all become blood pressure patients, and candidates for cardiac arrest due to constant thinking and anxiety. A bad combination.
To these Lawmakers, therefore, that obscene amount of money even borders on insensitivity. They don’t want to be associated with that.
Of course, they need official vehicles to do their jobs, but they see everything wrong In what it would cost the state. The solution: Get SUVs from Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company Ltd for us.
If this is true, and the government has not denied it, then these Lawmakers have started a quiet revolution. It is a revolution that should spread, with no fears for a clamp down by Security personnel. They have pointed at the right direction for both the state and federal governments.
When I first read the story, I dismissed it with a wave of the hand. It is an April fool story in September, I said. The members, I reasoned, are young people who, like their mates and colleagues, have an unquenchable appetite for the good things of life. They are Nigerians too. And, Nigerians have a pathological love for anything foreign. We have an obscene appetite for anything foreign.
One of the SUVs, manufactured by Innoson Motors
This other day, I listened, in shock, as one of our ranking federal legislators, roundly condemned all Nigerian universities. He desperately wanted his kids out of Nigeria, but was told that all the good schools in his country of choice had closed admission for the next semester. ‘Are there no other schools, there, available?’, he asked. Told that a number of smaller ones were available, but obviously not of the same high profile as he desired, he barked: ‘Go ahead and fix it. Anyone there is better than any university in Nigeria’. Here is a man, which for three consecutive times, has been his people’s representative, maintained by tax payers’ money. This attitude is not the exclusive of big people only.
I go to the Balogun market, in Lagos, once a month, and it is just a total disgrace. Before one buys anything, one is told by, especially, the market women, to buy the imported ones. They are better, they insist. Even pepper, pawpaw and pineapple, have imported types which they explain, are superior to the Nigerian types. Same goes for fresh tomato, and. garri. Crayfish. Fish. Ground nuts, Palm oil. It is endless.
When you want to buy Ankara, they show you the imported ones. ‘Ah, Auntie, they are better. These ones, I can’t tell you to buy them. They are made in Nigeria’. I don’t argue with them, especially, when it concerns foodstuff. I simply tell them to give me the Nigerian foodstuff. When I insist, they think my head is not correct. Where is our National Orientation Agency? What are they doing?
For the records, it is not that I insist on our products out of patriotism. It is just that I know they are better than the imported ones.
But we have extended this appetite for foreign things to everything, including domestic helps. It has reached a ridiculous level.
Perhaps, it’s an ego thing, a sign that one has arrived. So we prefer foreign cooks, foreign drivers, foreign gardners, foreign nannies, foreign house keepers to Nigerians.
They flaunt them before you. My cook and driver are from Togo, or Cotonou, they proudly inform. And I don’t want to talk about foreign artisans who have completely taken over everything in our building industry. Or the very many fake foreign engineers and brief case contractors, who dot our land, and have taken over every aspect of our lives.
Simply put, at the heart of the “P & ID” $9.6b contract scandal, is our large appetite for anything and, anybody foreign. There are many of them here, scamming the country, brazenly raping our economy, and being given protection by our security personnel. In their companies, Nigerians are treated like second class citizens, even when Nigerians do the bulk of the job.
They are looked down upon, and spoken to in a most derogatory manner. Nobody cares about our citizens. Instead, for peanuts, the foreigners are protected by the law. The Chinese and Indian companies are notorious for this, and our security personnel cannot claim ignorance of the situation. Many of them are in their pockets, and they flaunt it.
It is inferiority complex and our obscene appetite for everything that is not Nigerian.
One of the most celebrated Nigerian women, she is late now, had a numbing habit of sending her clothes, every month, to London, for dry cleaning. She said she couldn’t trust any dry cleaning service in Nigeria. A Lebanese mutual friend of ours was as shocked as I was the day she, proudly, revealed this to us. I was ashamed. Our mutual friend quickly suggested the dry cleaning service at Eko Hotels, Ikoyi, to her and, continued to pick the bills thereafter.
This inferiority complex has so infected every aspect of our lives that we have become slaves to it.
When our tailors, they all prefer to be called fashion designers now , make good dresses, they label them “Made in Italy, or Paris, or London”. They don’t want to take that credit as Nigerians. Same thing with our shoemakers. Which is why when people criticize Abia Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, I ask them to pause and, at least, acknowledge that he has popularised made in Aba products – Shoes, Suits, Belts. We now proudly wear them, with their labels, “Made in Aba”.
But in every aspect of national pride, we are incorrigible. We are lacking.
The Nigerian big man/woman prefer holding family weddings and birthday parties in foreign lands. Dubai is, usually, their destination of choice.
In the instant case, there are particularly two reasons why I find the position taken by members of the ANHA an aberration. I am Igbo. The Igbo work hard. But most of us are loud, and love loud things. Big cars in particular. Anambra takes the cake. Check them out. The state has the highest number of siren-blaring big men. As a governor, Peter Obi used to quietly make way for them. He would park, and let them pass. Their convoys were ten times longer than his own.
This other day when people were deriding, both at once, the obscenely loud and expensive sun glasses worn by the state’s First Lady, the beautiful Ebele Obiano, to, I guess, a funeral, I jumped to her defence. It is in our DNA, I defended.
The second reason is that our legislators are notoriously, at all levels, inconsiderate when it comes to their welfare – their allowances, their cars. For their cars, they go for the best, the biggest. No compromises. It is like a competition every four years.
Which is why I am taken aback by the unbelievable patriotism displayed by the Anambra lawmakers.
For the records, there is nothing wrong with vehicles manufactured by IVM. The only thing wrong with them is that they are made in Nigeria, and for that matter, Anambra state. So, “ab initio”, they have been termed inferior.
I have not visited the factory before. But I met the Chairman, years back, when both of us received the National Honours, same year.
I was excited meeting him, and promised I would visit his factory. I never did, and I’m not sure I would recognise his face now, as he would not recognise mine. But I am very proud of him for having the liver to dare, and persevere inspite of our very harsh business environment, and the very obvious persecution he has been passing through.
Years back, it was the intervention by Obi,at the highest level of government, which saved his business from being liquidated. The Nigerian Customs Service had impounded everything, almost, which Chukwuma shipped in for his factory. Obi fought like a true Igbo son that he is, and saved the situation. Since then, he has had brushes with banks and the law. He has always been vindicated.
I see his vehicles along the road. I’m told that they are really good and durable, and 70 per cent manufactured with raw materials sourced from within Some of them are really big, and sleek, and as beautiful as those imported ones. My driver of 22 years, an incurable admirer of beautiful cars, often points them out to me, wishing we’d own one soon. He doesn’t seem to understand the crisis Madam is going through. And, I just smile.
The Innoson cars I see along the road don’t seem inferior to me. The company has provided employment to hundreds of our youths, and, trained many. It pays taxes to Anambra and the Federal Government.
Obi patrionized Innoson, very much. And, I understand, so does Enugu state government now. Other state governments, led by Anambra should do the same.
We cannot be mouthing patriotism and fail in the most basic patriotic act. These vehicles are manufactured in our back yard – Nnewi. Why don’t we make them our first choice? The government cannot be shouting patronise Made-in-Nigeria, and be doing the opposite. It will be nice if a percentage of the vehicles bought by governments in Nigeria is, as a matter of policy, allocated to Innoson Motors. When we do that, we grow our own industry, and save the much needed foreign exchange. Can you imagine how much will be saved if our NASS and House of Assembly members bought their official vehicles from Innoson vehicles?
The foreign companies, which vehicles we patrionize, started like Innoson’s. Their people and governments grew them by patronising them. We should do the same.
And, finally, to the members of the Anambra House of Assembly, you have set a good example. You have shown patriotism. You have put the people first. By so doing, you have written your names in gold. And, I salute you.
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that close to $160bn was stolen from Nigeria between 2003 and 2012 when he predecessors were in government.
Buhari spoke in New York at the high-level national side-event organised by the African Union Development Agency, New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly.
Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan were in power during this period.
Buhari said the development has hampered development across the country because of lack of investment in critical infrastructure.
To prevent this from continue, the president said that is why “ we have no choice” as African than “to break the back of corruption.”
Buhari said that while the administration made some recoveries, more funds were “stuck in foreign bank accounts due to international laws, different jurisdictions and justice systems that make it difficult for repatriation.”
Shedding more lights on the impact of illicit financial flows, Buhari told the session that “these flows deplete Africa’s internally generated revenues, foreign exchange earnings, reduce tax revenues, drain natural resources, facilitate corruption and stunt private sector development.”
President Buhari cited tax evasion as an example of such illegal flows, saying that over US$200bn was lost yearly by developing countries “when multinational enterprises do not pay taxes in the countries where they made the profit.”
Buhari, who quoted tax figures provided by the Tax Justice Network and the International Monetary Fund, said further, “This amount is significantly higher than the annual development aid received by these countries which are estimated to be about $143bn.”
Buhari disclosed what he expected the meeting to achieve, saying, “I have high expectations for this meeting.
At the end of the deliberations, I expect other African leaders to see the pragmatic ideas on how to strengthen our anti-corruption institutions to reduce or effectively eliminate illicit financial flows.
“We need ideas on how to return the stolen assets to their countries of origin.
We also need strategies on how to plug the loopholes that enable companies to avoid paying commensurate taxes in their countries of operations.
You should deliberate on practical ideas to enhance global acceptable assets tracing and freezing, and boost the recovery governance framework.”
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is poised to officially declare his intention to contest the 2023 elections, putting paid to speculations that he is pushing a South west former governor to contest in his place. Speculations were rife that he may have been allegedly behind the travails of the embattled Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, an allegation he has completely denied.
Tinubu, Governor Fayemi of Ekiti state and Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna state appear to be recently engaged in posters war as campaign posters of the trio has been seen in parts of Lagos and Abuja, fueling speculations that Tinubu will contest contrary to speculations in certain quarters. El-Rufai has been at the forefront of campaign for the presidency to remain in the North, with himself clinching the big prize.
Beyond the All progressives Congress, the opposition governor, Amino Tambuwal of Sokoto state is also said to be warming up baring the final outcome of the supreme court case between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Peoples Democratic Party Candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Atiku has gone to the Supreme Court to Challenge the Tribunal Judgement that confirmed Buhari elected. Rumors of the role being played by the Jagaban of Borgu Kingdom-as Tinubu is fondly called by his friends- in the travails of the Vice President has stalked the Cyberspace, and coincidentally, he has taken the time in the midst of the crisis to launch his ambition. One of Atiku’s Lawyers, Mike Ozhekome, was reported to have said that Osinbajo was suffering because of Tinubu’s ambition.
Tinubu has been doing his consultation across political and ethnic divides, and an aid has has expressed optimism that he will succeed. But the general impression is that he may not be acceptable in the South east, who have been apathetic to the present government. The general impression is that he was the one that helped to midwife the current government, which is seen at the South east as anti Igbo. “Unless he can deploy his rigging machinery nation wide, he should perish the thought. Even in Yoruba land, he is fast becoming a pariah”, said a south west politician last weekend.
Tinubu has allegedly used his political structure to install some governors in the North, including governor Ganduje, who had deployed the Osun template to win his re election. The Osun Template brought his Man Friday, popularly called MC Oluomo, to limelight.
The alleged rift between him and Osinbajo started with his presidential ambition. Sources disclosed that he asked Osinbajo if he is interested in 2023 presidency, to which Osinbajo responded in the negative. Unfortunately, using his usual plants around his loyalists, he was told that Osinbajo plans to launch his presidential campaign by 2021. Tinubu, according to sources, was furious, “So he may have been part of the conspiracy to rubbish the Vice president who he sees as backbiting him”, the source disclosed.
But Osinbajo’s attempt at fighting back may boomerang. The recent disclosure-true or false- of his entanglement with a N90 billion campaign fund, alleged by Timi frank, hitherto an APC spokesperson, may be his undoing. His offer to waive his immunity to prosecute the case has elicited calls from the opposition for his resignation. And it appears that Frank is prepared to use any court case to bring up other alleged damaging information against the Vice president. Although his threat is believed by some to be only hot air, the uncertainty of the situation has put the Vice president at a disadvantage. The APC governors, however, has come to the rescue: they have taken the position that there is no rift within the Presidency.
The governors may have been economical with the truth. Most of the portfolios under the Vice President has been removed from under his feet, and rumors of stripping him of his main campaign platform-trader-money- are rife.
While all these are going on to whittle down the influence of the Vice President, Tinubu has taken the period to launch his campaign. His close associates have decided to kick start his campaign by October first. As expected, he has mobilized all the local government chairmen in Lagos to form a coalition of supporters. They called the jumbo coalition ‘ “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organization (ABATCO)”. They scheduled an independence Day lecture in his honor on October 1st.
It remains to be seen how his political journey will unfold. His alleged open antagonism with the Pan Yoruba cultural group, Afenifee, may spell doom for his ambition. It is said he is fast loosing group of leadership of the Yoruba race. Recently, an election among the regional power-brokers to select a Yoruba leader was organized. Tinubu contested with a retired Yoruba historian, Banji Akintoye, and lost by a whooping 71 votes to 3. Interestingly, some youths later held a press conference rejecting the election. Akintoye has since been acting in that capacity.
This may have seen as a popularity test for the Asiwaju. As a Pan Yoruba activists said recently, “Tinubu appears to have developed disdain for the Nigerian public. He believes he can whip them into place using the leadership of agberos. While this can work in the South west, it may not work in the North because the Northerners always speak with one voice and the south does not. And he will make no way in South east. Tinubu may wake up one morning to face the Afonja reality. Then he will have nobody to blame but himself.”
That day may not be too far off, if this is to be believed.
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has released a list of 23 players that will trade tackles with the Brazilian National team at the Singapore International Stadium, Singapore, on 13th October, 2019.
Coach Gernot Rohr had earlier hinted that he was going to give new players that are performing in their various European club sides chances in his squad.
Surprisingly, he has given a call up to Peter Olayinka, who plays for Slavia Prague Football Club in the Czech Republic league and Azeez Ramon of Granada Football Club, who is making a return to the national team since 2014.
Azeez who scored against Barcelona Football Club last weekend in his team’s 2-0 win over the Blaugranian side of Catalunya.
Azeez was part of the late Stephen Keshi’s coach Super Eagles team that represented the country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Olayinka, Azeez, Wilfried Ndidi, Abdullahi Shehu and Kenneth Omeruo are the new players that joined the team that played Ukraine last month in Dnipro, Ukraine in an international friendly that ended 2-2.
Kelechi Iheanacho, Bryan Idowu and Josh Maja were excluded from the Brazil friendly, having received a call up for the Ukrainian friendly.
The goalkeeping department remain unchanged, with Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Francis Uzoho and Maduka Okoye still in between the sticks.
Chidozie Awaziem, Oluwasemilogo Ajayi, William Troost Ekong, Leon Balogun, Olaoluwa Aina, Jamilu Collins, Kenneth Omeruo and Abdullahi Shehu completing the defense line up.
In the midfield, Joe Ayodele-Aribo who scored in his debut received a call up alongside Anderson Esiti, Oghenekaro Etebo, Ramon Azeez, Wilfried Ndidi and Alex Iwobi.
The best dribbler in Europe at the moment, Samuel Kalu, leads the Super Eagles attack with Lille Metropole Football Club striker, Victor Osimhen, Moses Simon, Paul Onuachu, Emmanuel Dennis Bonaventure and Peter Olayinka complete the Super Eagles attacking force.
