Following his recent kidnap, the father of Super Eagles captain Chief Michael Obi, has opened up on the kind of relationship he has with his son. The 74-year-old Jos-based transporter was abducted while travelling for a family meeting along Makurdi-Enugu…
Mikel John Obi: ‘If Nigeria were organised we’d have won World Cup’ (Guardian)
For Mikel John Obi, it was the boyhood dream that soured. “It was a disaster,” the Nigeria midfielder says of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil – his first involvement at a finals. From the outside looking in, there was…
Mikel John Obi told father had been kidnapped hours before World Cup match (Guardian)
Mikel John Obi was told that his father had been kidnapped and would be killed if he reported anything – just hours before he led Nigeria into their final World Cup group phase tie against Argentina. The Nigeria captain received…
May God forgive you, fans tell Mikel Obi (Punch)
Still smarting from his team’s hurtful crash out of the ongoing World Cup fiesta in Russia, Super Eagles captain, Mikel John Obi, had tweeted his explanations for what many fans considered a not-good-enough outing. “We fought until the end and…
Rohr banks on Moses, Mikel, Ighalo for England (Punch)
Victor Moses, Mikel John Obi and Odion Ighalo are likely to be in the Nigeria line-up to face England in a World Cup warm-up match in London on Saturday, coach Gernot Rohr has said, AFP reports. “We will have Victor…