MikeThePundit
@Mike_ThePundit
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Multimedia Journalist, CAF Accredited |
Nigeria
Joined January 2020
🚨Me: Congratulations Nwabali, a certain journalist criticized and mentioned that you have not been tested enough and that your opponent today is the best GK at the AFCON, What is your reply to this criticism?!. Nwabali: “Today is not to talk about my critics, it happens in
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🚨Victor Osimhen has now seen VAR disallow three of his goals at #AFCON2023 . On Sunday, leave whatever you’re doing, ensure to be around, Victor Osimhen will score the winning goal for Nigeria to lift a 4th AFCON title. Be there 🫵
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🚨Ekerette Udom has signed for Villarreal right from the NPFL!
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🚨Sporting Lagos have now completed a deal to sign Warri Wolves captain, Olisema Ekene permanently. Ekene signed for two years and will earn 400k monthly. I’m told he rejected an offer worth 650k a month from Rivers United. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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Transfer Deadline Day In Europe But This is The Biggest News Outside Nigeria . 🚨OFFICIAL: Ebenezer Akinsanmiro has joined Inter Milan on a four year deal from Remo Stars . #NPFLTransfer
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🚨From the NPFL, in the colours of Enyimba at the Akure Township Stadium to the Stade Félix-Houphouët-Boigny, Cote D’Iviore and helping Nigeria to the #AFCON2023 semifinal with 2 GREAT SAVES! . My NPFL product, my goalkeeper! . Massive display 👏
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🚨Rasheedat Ajibade, What a goal! What a player! . Too good 🔥🇳🇬 . HT: Nigeria 2-0 Algeria
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🚨Junior Lokosa to Sporting Lagos on a 700k per month deal. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . The deal also includes a pre contract to Sporting Lagos’ sister club, Aarhus Fremad, a second-division side in Denmark. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨Let me correct an impression about the time in Rangers Intl vs Enyimba. The penalty was awarded at 90+7 after the referee added 8mins of stoppages. However, the scoreboard operated failed at his job as he didn’t stop the watch at the first half and starting counting the
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🚨Super Eagles centre back, Benjamin Tanimu has joined Crawley Town FC of England. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . He leaves Singida Black Stars of Tanzania and sign on a three year deal on deadline day.
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🚨EXCL: Enyimba buy out Desmond Ojietefian contract . - 3m naira fee paid to Shooting Stars .- It was hoped that the deal would be on a free but the defender had a year left .- Medicals to come soon in Aba. More to follow……. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨OFFICIAL: The Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne will host the first leg of the International Friendly between the Super Falcons of Nigeria and Algeria. Saturday, 26th October .Kickoff is 4PM
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🚨BREAKING: Sodiq Ismail to Albanian side, FK Partizani. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . - Medicals schedule for this week upon the right back’s arrival. - The Super Eagles defender will put pen to paper on a three years deal. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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Coach Dan’s wife just called me and expressed her fear, in her words “I have been away to reach my husband just once and I am very worried. If the football can’t be played, allow them return to their families”. This is sad 😢 Everyone related to the delegate family are worried.
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🚨Ademola Lookman scores again for Atalanta. He’s in the form of his life. The CAF Player Of The Year Award should be settled by now 🇳🇬🔥
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I was there, I’ll always be there! . Don’t joke with me.
🚨 Stanley Nwabali has completed a move to South African side, Chippa Utd. The goalkeeper played for katsina Utd last season. #NPFLTransfer
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🚨Ekene Olisema will arrive Lagos today to complete other formalities of his Sporting Lagos move. - 400k naira monthly .- 2yrs deal .- The defender last played at Warri Wolves and was captain. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨WHO IS THE LAST 17YR OLD TO BE INVITED TO THE SUPER EAGLES?. 46 goals in all competitions last season, Kparobo Arierhi deserves a call up!. Before his 3 goals in Togo, Kparobo had light up the NNL, TCC, Gothia, and Viareggio Cup. Get him to the Super Eagles now to get familiar!
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🚨Fidelis on Kazeem’s red card: “We will punish him, a player has to be disciplined, I think Ijaball will be very happy, I saw him smiling up there because he is one of the player that will give his team pressure, we will look at the player that will fill the space". #NPFL25
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🚨Enjoy this good build up play by the Super Eagles as Ademola Lookman saw it off with a goal. Finidi George to stay or not?!
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🚨Bendel Insurance coach: “Football is all about participating, it’s not about winning. We played against the champions, people should appreciate the performance”. Journalist: “We conceded two goals after going in front, we can’t be quiet about them. Monday Odigie: “I am not
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🚨Sporting Lagos could lose Chisom Orji and Kalu Chukwuemeka . Understand the players are attracting interest from other clubs and are looking at exiting. Nothing concrete yet but one to look out for in days. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨In Ikenne today and I caught up with the Flying Eagles team who have their rest day to watch #NPFL25; Remo Stars vs Nasarawa Utd
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Rangers Intl vs Enyimba . The stadium is PACKED and crowd still outside waiting to get in. #NPFL24
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🚨Me: Coach, your team appears to play better against the big sides; Ivory Coast and Cameroon. Do you think the performance will drop again against Angola?!. Jose Peseiro: “See, I want to just win every game, I don’t know what Nigerians think about names in football but if we
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🚨CHIAMAKA NNADOZIE; The best goalkeeper, either men or women ever produced by Nigeria just after Vincent Enyeama. If you mention any other name especially one fair guy, you definitely have blood in your hands.
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I saw Ebenezer’s debut for 13mins and hello, this boy can play the football. He will dominate Super Eagles midfield, God’s willing and I’ll be there! . Injury free I hope for him and more growth in the game 👏
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🚨Training time with Austin Eguavoen, Daniel Ogunmodede and Fidelis Ilechukwu in charge of the Super Eagles. #AFCON2025Q
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🚨- Top of Group B .- Ohale putting her life on the line.- Asisat Oshoala big moment .- Payne putting pain in Aussie midfield .- Alozie’s beauty with brain .- Silenced the 49,156 crowd in Brisbane.- Saving African teams at the tournament . FT: Australia 2-3 Nigeria . #FIFAWWC
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Etebo, Onyeka and Aribo in the midfield on Tuesday. Osimhen flanked by Lookman and Simon. Eguavoen, I’m on my kneels.
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Your new Super Eagles coach, Mr Éric Sékou Chelle 🤝 MikeThePundit
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🚨OFFICIAL: Daniel Daga to leave Enyimba. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . He will join Molde FK in Norway this January. The midfielder leaves after completing his 18 month loan in Aba. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨EXCL: Lille of France are advancing in negotiations for hot Nigerian youngster, Shina Ayodele. Understand the striker is high on demand and deal could be concluded in coming weeks. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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NPFL players are rubbish they said but I hope you people will that boy that an NPFL product who left just late 2022 got a clean sheet today and not the Oyinbo olodo goalkeeper he kept parading. Again, the NPFL will continue to contribute to wins in the Super Eagles. Get that
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🚨Remo Stars’ Daniel Ogunmodede in Lagos for Ikorodu City vs Rangers Intl . Three wins. Top of the table. His next opponent in the NPFL?? Rangers Intl. #NPFL25
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🚨Ademola Lookman has scored a brace inside 30 minutes against Napoli . I’m sure Osimhen will call him after the game say “Guy, your head dey there” 😀
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🚨Finidi George to Rivers Utd as new head coach. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . The former Super Eagles handler will be unveiled tomorrow in Port Harcourt. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨GENERATIONAL TALENT. THE BEST OF THEM ALL. THERE IS NO NIGERIAN YOUTH STIKER ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BETTER. TWO CLINICAL GOALS. A STRIKER OF UTMOST QUALITY, KPAROBO ARIERHI 🔥🔥. #WAFUBU20
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🚨I have seen natural dribblers eye ball to eye but Onyebuchi Obasi stands tall. What a player! . The winger has moved from Beyond Limits to Vålerenga FC. Congratulations to everyone involved.
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🚨After not getting the approval from Chelsea despite training in London, Hafiz Umar Ibrahim has now completed a move to French Ligue 1 side, Stade Reims from Nigerian academy Ojodu City FC. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . The 18-year-old striker signed four years contract.
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🚨DEBUT . Ebenezer Akinsanmiro finally makes his Inter Milan debut . The Beyond Limits product came on as a substitute for the final 13mins in Inter’s 4-0 win at Lecce. - One foul won .- One through ball completed . It can only get better 👏
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🚨Understand that Olumide Ajibolade is set to be named as one of the Golden Eaglets assistant coaches to Many Garba. The Beyond Limits boss just guided his side to a 4th TCC title and won the Viareggio Cup in Italy for the first time ever for an African country.
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🚨Bendel Insurance have reached an agreement in principle to sign Tamara Ezekiel on a free. - One year deal at 600k per month .- Player expected in Benin this week to conclude all details.- The midfielder last played for 3SC. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . #NPFLTransferWithMike
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Time to head home and treat Malaria. Hope y’all enjoyed the game?! . Nigeria football can really be where we want it to be if the administrators do the right things. #NPFLWithMike
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🚨The Super Eagles have just landed in Kigali. Daniel Ogunmodede will check his phone and see that his boys are leading 2-0 at Abia Warriors, he will just be smiling. Goodluck on Tuesday @CoachDan_Ijabal . #NPFL25 x #54FxAFCON2025Q
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🚨Ebenezer Akinsanmiro at Inter Milan . - Already promoted to the first team last season and NOT now .- Club only decided not to loan him for this season as Simone Inzaghi wants him around the first team.- He will also major with the U19 in the UEFA Youth League
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🚨Ebenezer Akinsanmiro in Inter Milan’s U19 this season; . 🏟️16 Games.⚽️6 Goals.🅰️3 Assists. The former Remo Stars and Beyond Limits midfielder is only a goal shy of double digits of GA.
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I strongly support the Super Eagles players IF they’re willing to boycott the Libya game. This is an absolute disgrace and a lack of sportsmanship. Libya and North Africans do these things over and over, even with our club sides. This is the best time to fight and end it.
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🚨Ikorodu City FC director, Tobi Adepoju has been appointed as the assistant secretary of the NPFL Club Owners in Abuja. Recall he was the secretary of the Southern Conference Forum of the NNL while his club were in the second division. Congratulations @OgaNlaMedia 👏
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🚨OFFICIAL: Victor Mbaoma joins Rwanadan side, APR FC. Understand salary is 2.7m naira on a two year deal. Player considered such offer as “unable” to turn down. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨Clubs in the NPFL would no longer have the right to stream their home matches but only broadcast partners of the NPFL Live app would be allowed to do so. #NPFL24
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🚨Wolfsberger AC Chubuike Nwaiwu with some charity work for women in Port Harcourt as he observe his winter break in Nigeria. Nice gesture 👏
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🚨BREAKING: The 2024/25 season of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL will kick off on August 31, 2024. #NPFL24
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You people didn’t tell us that this was Maduka Okoye’s jubilation when we defeated Egypt. Passion. I like this! . #AFCON2021
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🚨Who or what is stopping Osimhen from winning the CAF Player of the year award?!
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For the first time in the NPFL, I have run a commentary in a FULLY PACKED stadium. Shooting Stars with massive supporters. It’s incredible. FT: Shooting Stars 1-0 Katsina Utd . #NPFL22
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🚨Sporting Lagos to sign South Sudan’s midfielder, Joseph Loro. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . - One year contract in the NPFL and two years in the sister club, Aarhus Fremad in Denmark.- Salary in the 700k region.- He will arrive Lagos this weekend . #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨Bosso before the win over Argentina: “This is the World Cup and it is wrong to under-rate any team. We won two of our three matches and had the same number of points in our group as Brazil and Italy. We are no pushovers in this campaign”. Kept to his words 👏 . #U20WC
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Deborah Abiodun in that first half. Her performance = E dun set and confirmed ✅ . At 19 on her World Cup debut. That was 🔥
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@FabrizioRomano Do you mind to follow me @FabrizioRomano 😀.
🚨EXCL: Lille of France are advancing in negotiations for hot Nigerian youngster, Shina Ayodele. Understand the striker is high on demand and deal could be concluded in coming weeks. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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🚨BREAKING: Enyimba progress INTO the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup after a 3-2 shootout win over Etoile Filante . Both legs had ended goalless. Enyimba, the pride of the nation 🐘🔥 . #CAFCC
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Daniel Arierhi - brace in Ikenne 🔥. Kparobo Arierhi - brace in Lome 🥳. This is football heritage, well dished at Beyond Limits Football Academy . @trevorsports is the chef!. All you need to do is to pitch your tent with us and be sat!
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🚨FT: Nigeria 1-0 Korea Republic . Goal scored by Flourish Sebastine. The Falconets will now play table toppers, Germany on Wednesday at 11pm in Bogota . #U20WWC
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🚨CAF President Dr. Motsepe had pleaded with Nigeria's sports minister to have Libya vs Nigeria played tomorrow. Sports Minister, Hon. Enoh has REFUSED! . Delegation to return to Nigeria. #AFCON2025Q.
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🚨Kazeem Ogunleye scores off the bench to give Rangers Intl a 1-0 lead against Sagrada of Angola in the CAF Champions League. What a finish🔥. #CAFCL
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🚨Super Eagles B camp bound 🔜 . Do you know these NPFL players, name them??
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Clearly, those who came up with the name of the academy as “Beyond Limits” were living in the future. What an awesome group of talented lads🫡
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🚨Tag one NPFL photographer you believe can deliver this sort of picture perfectly, like for like! . Go ⬇️ . #NPFL25
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🚨Remember the Moroccan female referee that officiated Nigeria’s last match against Guinea Bissau?…Bouchra Karboubi. We met and spoke at the CAF AFCON Referees’ Open Day in Abidjan. Very lovely lady and was all smile. Short interview coming up on @54footballx . #AFCON2023
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🚨Super Falcons’ Desire Oparanozie has officially announced her retirement from professional football at 29yrs old. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . - She scored 22 goals in 35 games for Nigeria .- Won the AWCON four times .- Won the NWFL twice.- Golden boot winner at 2014 AWCON
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🚨BREAKING: Ola Aina has returned to Nottingham Forest and won’t be part of the team to face Rwanda on Monday. #AFCON2025Q
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🚨Ebenezer Akinsanmiro scored his first goal for Sampdoria today against Cesena in a 5-3 win in the Italian Serie B. The midfielder is on loan from Inter Milan.
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🚨9 assists in 10 league games. Sodiq Ismail to Super Eagles AFCON squad. Who says No?. #NPFL24
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🚨Sporting Lagos have reached an agreement in principle with Ichofe Wanderer for twin brothers, Forukpo Praise and Forukpo Marvelous. Deal facilitated by football agent @Donfiazo . “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . Both attackers will go straight to Sporting Lagos’ academy!
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🚨Defending champions of the NPFL, Enyimba have announced ‘Stake’ as its new shirt sponsor on a multi-year partnership. MASSIVE! . #NPFL24
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🚨BOMBSHELL: Enyimba’s head coach, Finidi George Fires At Management For AFL Exit . “Out of 19 new players that were brought in, I had knowledge of only 4 of them. When I saw the quality of the players that were brought, I called Ekwueme the Sporting Director and asked what the
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Super Eagles utility player is back. Shehu Abdullahi, no worries.
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🚨Anthony Okachi has this morning concluded his medial in Aba ahead of his move to Enyimba FC. Two years contract for the striker in the region of 500k per month with 3m naira sign on fee. “E dun set” and confirmed ✅ . Official announcement soon. #NPFLTransferWithMike
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On Nwabali’s injury. Jose Peseiro: “We have to wait 24 or 48hrs to know what is wrong with him but I hope he will available for the next game”. #AFCON2023
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🚨Jose Peseiro and Ola Aina speaking to the media today at the pre-match presser for Nigeria vs South Africa . #AFCON2023
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🚨CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe asked me if Nigeria can win the #AFCON2023 . You already know my reply 😀. I also asked him on the African Football League and CAF Confederation Cup.
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The revelation of this Super Eagles team is Papa Daniel of Niger Tornadoes . A versatile player with a sweet left foot who was impressive over two legs. If he isn’t leaving Nigeria soon, I have told him the NPFL club he needs to join next season 😀. What a play. My boy 🔥
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🚨Sporting Lagos’ Coach Paul told me after Enyimba game: “The last time I checked, Lokosa is a player for Remo Stars and I can’t speak on a player who isn’t ours”. - Lokosa’s deal is complete as revealed yesterday at 700k .- Announcement being prepared . #NPFLTransferWithMike
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