Izuchukwu Okosi
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Super Eagles to maintain their winning streak at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon after their 2-0 win over Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday night.
The win means that the Eagles who are gunning for a fourth title at the tournament finished their Group D campaign with a 100% record having defeated Egypt and Sudan in previous matches.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in a press release, President Buhari expressed optimism that the team have the potential of emerging champions of Africa when the final is played on February 6.
“President Muhammadu Buhari commends the Super Eagles of Nigeria for keeping hope alive in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon by winning all their group matches and advancing to the second round of the tournament in grand style,” the release stated.
“The President urges the Austin Eguavoen-led team to maintain and even surpass the terrific form that made them leaders in the group stage, as Nigeria hopefully looks forward to a total of seven emphatic wins in this competition.
“President Buhari trusts that the positive reputation of good sportsmanship the traveling fans, sportswriters and the football team have demonstrated in Cameroon will continue to enliven the importance of sports, particularly football, as an enabler of development, peace, tolerance, friendship and cooperation,” the release stressed.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles are the only team to have qualified for the Round of 16 with unblemish record thereby equalling Austin Eguavoen’feat of 2006 when he led the Eagles to a third place finish at that year’s AFCON also finishing the group stages with a perfect finish.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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