Izuchukwu OkosiFormer Super Eagles captain and two-time African Footballer of The Year winner in 1996 and 1999, Nwankwo Kanu according to feelers from Enyimba International FC of Aba is set to be confirmed as the Chairman of the club.
This follows the dissolution of the Management of the club last week by the Abia state government.
Kanu is set to take over the reins of the 2003 and 2004 CAF Champions League winners from longstanding Chairman, Felix Agwu Anyansi.
Anyansi was in charge of the running of the club for a record 23 years and oversaw the glorious days of the club.
Anyansi remains the longest serving Chairman of any club in the history of club football in Nigeria.
He (Anyansi) is the First vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation with Shehu Gusau as the President after the NFF congress that took place on 30 September 2022 in Benin City, Edo state.
Kanu was a former player of Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Owerri before he signed for Dutch giants Ajax where he won the UEFA Champions League in the 1995/1996 season with current Enyimba coach, Finidi George his teammate at the club.
Kanu was captain of the Nigerian U-23 national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Georgia, USA.
Kanu was signed by Italian Serie A top side, Inter Milan but was diagnosed of a heart defect that almost put paid to his playing career.
Then Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger put faith in the silky skills of the player who was rated as the 6th best player in the word after the Olympics feat.
Kanu was part of the Arsenal Invincibles side that went a whole season unbeaten. He also played for West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth in the English Premier League.
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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