Izuchukwu OkosiEnyimba FC midfielder Chibuike Nwaiwu who was declared to have gone AWOL by the Aba side after he failed to report to camp without the knowledge or authorization of the club, has been spotted training in Israel with another club.
Nwaiwu joined the People’s Elephant last year from Heartland FC, and the 20-year-old defensive midfielder has been a regular since making his debut for the nine-time Nigeria league champions.
On Tuesday, November 7, Enyimba FC released an official statement declaring the player wanted, and charged him to have absconded from team duties.
New pictures of Nwaiwu have surfaced, with the player training with a new club outside the shores of Africa, sparking wild questions amongst fans and the media.
In the statement released by Enyimba, the club reinstated that Nwaiwu is an eligible member of the team because he is still under a legally binding contract and has not been released or involved in negotiations to join another club.
On the flip side, the club the defensive midfielder currently has training sessions with is undisclosed, hinting that he might be on trial ahead of a possible switch away from Finidi George’s side.
It is also unknown at the time of this report how Enyimba got to find out about his possible whereabouts but the picture of the player in a training session was circulated in a sports journalists’ Whatsapp platform privy to Prime Business Africa.
Two-time African champions, Enyimba were knocked out of the inaugural African Football League quarter-finals by Morrocan side, Wydad Casablanca, losing both legs, but amassed a million dollars in compensation for participating at that stage of the competition.
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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