Rivers United on Sunday night held their hosts Etoile Filante of Burkina Faso to a goalless draw in the first leg of the second round of the CAF Confederation Cup played at Yammoussokro in Abidjan.
The Pride of Rivers qualified for the second round of the preliminary round of the competition after the draw.
Etoile on their part reached the second round after they defeated Casa Ziguiqor of Senegal in the first round.
Second leg of the tie will go down on the 1st of October, at the Adokie Amasiamaka stadium in Port Harcourt.
The winner of two legs will progress to the group stage of the competition.
The Stanley Eguma’s team got to the quarterfinals of the CAf Confederation Cup last season.
Nigeria’s second representative in the competition, Bendel Insurance played a 2-2 draw against RC Berkene of Morocco at the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium, Benin City on Saturday evening.
Insurance head coach Monday Odigie was livid with the performance of his players in the game and they are condemned to pick up an away win in the second leg of the fixtures in a fortnight.
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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.
