Nigeria International, Alimi Jamiu has joined Elkanemi Warriors of Maiduguri from Akwa United on a season-long loan.
Chelsea have reportedly reached an agreement with Italian side Torino for the permanent transfer Nigeria wing-back Olaoluwa Aina.
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Nigeria forward Sone Aluko has completed a loan switch to Chinese Super League outfit Beijing Renhe from Reading in the English championship.
Aluko’s loan deal will see him represent Renhe until New Year’s Day in 2020.
The former Glasgow Rangers star struggled to make an impact at Reading in the English Championship this season scoring only once in 19 appearances.
The 30-year-old joined Reading from Fulham in August 2017 and scored four goals in 60 appearances.
The former Hull City forward becomes the second player to leave Jose Manuel Gomes’ team this month after goalkeeper Vito Mannone moved to Major League Soccer outfit Minnesota United.
The transfer window in China remains open until the end of the month and Sone – the younger brother to England Women striker Eniola Aluko, who is also playing her football overseas this season with Juventus in Serie A – will now begin a loan spell in the Chinese capital.
Beijing Renhe, managed by Aleksandar Stanojević and based in Fengtai – a suburb south-west of the city – finished in eighth place in the top tier in China last year.
They begin a brand new league campaign at the start of March when they take on Shandong Luneng on Friday 1st March.
Aluko is in contention to make his debut for Beijing Renhe when the 2019 Chinese Super League begins with a visit to Shandong Luneng on Friday.
Chelsea have reportedly agreed a permanent deal in the region of £9m with Italian club Torino for versatile Nigeria wing-back Ola Aina.
Aina, 22, has shone in the Serie A this season for Torino after impressing on loan for Hull City in the English Championship last term.
He joined the Series A side on a one-year loan deal from Chelsea at the start of the current season.
According to a report in British tabloid, The Sun. Torino have agreed a deal to take up their option of buying the defender in the summer.
The Italians are thought to have weighed up an offer in the January transfer window but decided to bide their time.
English Championship club QPR and Dutch side PSV Eindhoven were also linked with Aina over the summer.
Aina has made 22 league appearances for Torino this season with a goal to his name
Corona Basketball club of Spain and D’Tigers Point Guard Braxton Ogbueze is counting positives despite Nigeria’s disappointing outing at the final window of the just concluded 2019 FIBA world cup qualifier in Abidjan Côte d’ivoire.
Ogbueze told www.brila.net in Spain that the team shouldn’t outrightly be criticised following the below par showing but rather urged Nigerians to assess the team on the scale of their performance in the whole qualifying campaign which earned the team the best from Africa and the first qualifying nation in the world to have secured qualification even before the final window in Côte d’ivoire.
Former Captain of Nigeria’s senior national team Joseph Yobo has urged Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr to consider experimenting with the Eagles young and fringe players in the dead rubber 2019 AFCON qualifying game.
Yobo said in a chat with www.brila.net that games like this encourages players to have a sense of belonging and offer platforms to also have them showcase their talent in the national team and helps breed competition for places which is what is needed in the national team.
Nigeria will be up against Seychelles as well as the international friendly against Egypt ahead the 2019 AFCON.
Coach of NPFL side Kano Pillars Ibrahim Musa has revealed that Kano Pillars’ struggles this season is traceable to the fact that the team still misses the services of it former top scorer Junior Lokossa and haven’t replace him effectively yet.
Musa speaking in a chat with www.brila.netsaid Pillars is a team that has seen success and would always want to be successful but need to come to reality with the fact that commensurate recruitment would have to be made in strengthening the squad before such success can be attained again.
Kano Pillars and D’Tigers player Abdu Yahaya has expressed disappointment over the withdrawal of FIBA Africa Zone 3 champion Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers with days to the commencement of the newly introduced Afro league basketball where the team is billed to feature in the group stage in Morocco.
Yahaya who was recruited by Rivers Hoopers to help fortify the Nigeria League champion expressed disappointment in a chat with www.brila.net for the unfortunate withdrawal of the team due to lack of fund from the state Government.
He revealed that it was hope and expectation dashed for the team and that also automatically terminated his contract with the Porthacourt based side because of his contractual arrangement which was for him to help the team’s continental quest.