Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria Professional Football League sides Rivers United and Plateau United on Tuesday were drawn against Libyan opponents in the 2023 CAF Confederation Cup third round stage playoff round draw following their elimination from the CAF Champions League qualifying stages reports Prime Business Africa.
Rivers will face El Nasr Benghazi while Plateau United have fixtures against Al Achdar on November 2 and 9. The Nigerian clubs will host the first leg fixtures.
North African sides Wydad Athletic of Morocco and Esperance of Tunisia defeated Rivers United and Plateau United 6-0 and 1-0 respectively over the weekend in the return legs of their qualifiers.
Governor Nyesom Wike had tasked Rivers United to defeat Wydad and get rewarded with the sum of $40,000 per player but the players have lost out of the largesse on the back of their setback.
In the first legs played in Port Harcourt and Abuja, NPFL champions Rivers had defeated their opponts Wydad 2-1 while Plateau United won 2-1 against Esperance thereby progressing to the Group stages of the CAF Champions League on 7-2 and 2-2 aggregates.
Esperance however made it to the group stages at the expense of Plateau United on the away goal rule.
Kwara United were eliminated from the Confederation Cup qualifying stages and are out of reckoning in any of the CAF interclub competitions.
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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