The Nigeria U-20 duo of Orji Okonkwo and Kingsley Michael have verbally agreed a move to Serie A side Bologna according to reports exclusively gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com.

The duo were offered to Tottenham Hotspur by their agent Danny Shittu, a former Nigeria International who has in the past offered the childhood friends to Chelsea and Watford.

However despite a contract offer from Serie B side Spezia , the exciting duo are heading to Serie A side Bologna, with Orji due to fly out at the start of next month to conclude talks and possibly sign a deal while Kingsley will join him when he clocks 18.

The deal could however suffer some set backs with Football Academy Abuja claiming the players are their bonafide players who have already been traded off to their partners Spezia.

Owngoalnigeria.com knowledge of the issue is that the duo asked Spezia to increase their proposed salary which the Serie B side did, but still it wasn’t close to what the agent of the pair demanded.

Shittu took over the management of the duo shortly after they won the Under-17 World Cup in 2015, and only recently they were part of the Nigeria U-20 team that failed to qualify for the 2017 Africa Youth Championship after a 3-4 loss at home to Sudan.

In that vey game Orji scored a second half goal after coming on as a substitute while Michael missed out of the match day squad due to a knock picked up in training.

Celtic of Scotland defender Efe Ambrose has reacted to rumours linking him with a move to Greek side Olympiakos or a possible exit from Celtic Park before the end of the ongoing transfer window.

Ambrose who posted a near faultless performance for Celtic in their 1-1 draw away to Astana of Kazakhstan in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, is reportedly set to be cut loose by the Scottish Champions following their recent capture of Ivorian defender Kolo Toure.

However the 27 year old exclusively told Owngoalnigeria in a chat after the game, that he is unaware of any talks regarding a move away from Celtic, that talks about his possible exit is been spread by certain interest whom he is aware off.

” I know those who are behind the rumours, but I won’t mention them at least for now, am not aware of any talks regarding a move away from Celtic, same people behind the Bayern Leverkusen interest are behind this Olympiakos story” He said.

” The perpetrators of the Bayern Leverkusen interest went as far as saying I told close friends that Leverkusen wants me, meanwhile I was alone training with the youth teams of Chelsea with the first team away for Pre season”

” I have said it before that am ready to fight for my spot in the team and nothing has changed, It will also impress you to know that just as am reading about Olympiakos interest in me, In January I also read same but am fully settled and happy at Celtic”.

The UEFA Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round tie between Olympiakos of Greece and Israeli side Hapoel Be’er Sheva ended in a 0-0 draw, with the Nigerian trio of Brown Ideye, Anthony Nwakaeme and John Ogu failing to hit the back of the net for their respective sides.

Olympiakos had Super Eagles forward Brown Ideye on from the start, but he failed to give them the victory they so much needed at home against the Israeli who had John Ogu and Anthony Nwakaeme on from the start as well.

Ogu who was on target in their first round 3-2 win over Sheriff lasted the entire duration of the game, putting in a strong shift that saw him booked in the 26th minute while Nwakaeme was on till the final minute of time added on before he was substituted.

The result swings the advantage of the tie in the way of the Nigerian duo of Nwakaeme and Ogu, but the experience of Olympiakos could throw the tie open when the reverse tie takes place in a week time.

Former captain and assistant coach of the Super Eagles Daniel Amokachi, has announced via his facebook page that his twin sons Kalim and Nazim will train with Turkish side Besiktas.

Now 18 they will be hoping to take after their father who made a name for himself playing for Besiktas in Turkey, although only one of them plays same role as him during his playing days. One who predominantly plays with his right foot is a forward while the other a left footer plays as a winger.

Amokachi played for Besiktas from 1996 to 1999 scoring a total of 19 goals for the Turkish giants in 77 games which made him a firm fan favorite at the club and it appears his legendary status has worked in his son’s favour.

The identical twins also spent time on trials with Amokachi’s former side Everton in 2009 training with the Under-13s of the team but were reportedly not offered deals by the club.

43 year old Amokachi is presently the head coach of Finnish second division side JS Hercules.

According to the electronic edition of Liverpoolecho, Liverpool Nigerian Youth forward Taiwo Awoniyi who was recently dropped from the final list of 18 players picked to represent Nigeria at the Olympics in Rio is close to agreeing a loan deal with Dutch side NEC Nijmegen.

Awoniyi joined Liverpool last summer and was immediately loaned to Germany’s second division side FSV Frankfurt where he made 14 appearances with a goal to his name.

NEC Nijmegen are reportedly in the driving seat to sign Awoniyi due to the close relationship between coach of the Dutch side Peter Hyballa, who worked with Liverpool boss Jurgen Kloop as U-19 coach during the German’s time at Borussia Dortmund.

The Kloop relationship with the coach of the team,as mentioned above gave the Dutch side the edge over teams like Hajduk Split of Croatia and Tondela in Portugal who have also expressed interest in the 18 year old.

The method been employed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in removing age cheats from the Nigeria U-17 team has been revealed to Owngoalnigeria.com.

The players under the tutelage of coach Manu Garba have been training seriously in Abuja the last two months but most of the players picked up during the one month screening exercise have been decamped due to issues bothering on age falsification.

As many as 14 players have so far been sent parking from the team on account of age cheat as the team step up preparations for their first 2017 Africa U-17 Championship qualifiers against Niger Republic next month.

We gathered most players who falsify their ages are usually in possession of two international passport and with different ages on each but usually bearing same number.

Eagle eyed officials of the NFF usually use the passport number to trace if the player has two passports with different ages and that has so far been working for the football house in their bid to curb the menace of age cheat in Nigeria football.