Izuchukwu Okosi
Following his outburst in the media over his unpaid bonuses by the Nigeria Football Federation, Prime Business Africa has scooped home-based goalkeeper John Noble is likely to be blacklisted from the Super Eagles.
Noble was part of the Eagles that played in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon where Nigeria were eliminated in the round of 16 after a 1-0 defeat to Tunisia but is now facing a backlash over the bonus row.
The Enyimba goalkeeper did not receive his $25, 000 bonuses unlike his foreign-based teammates.
Prime Business Africa gathered on Saturday that the rest of the players received theirs two months ago.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau who came into office on September 30 after the electoral congress is yet to respond to the issue.
A senior member of the team according to a source close to the national team revealed that Noble failed to receive his share of the bonus because he provided a “wrong dollar account” to the Nigeria Football Federation.
“Noble was first called up in March 2021 for Benin/Lesotho Afcon qualifiers. He got his dues in that same dom account.
“For other international engagements, NFF paid him through that same account. However, when it came to paying the big one, he was told he sent a wrong details,” the source, who was a onetime fourth official in a Nigeria Professional Football League game revealed.
The Super Eagles will regroup again March for the restart of the of 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
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The team failed to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and finished the year 2022 as the fifth best national team in Africa and 35th in the world.
The Eagles are three-time African champions of the Africa Cup of Nations and are runners up in over five editions.
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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