Former Sunshine Stars of Akure midfielder Paul Onobi took the walk of shame late into KuPS heavy 0-3 loss to VPS in a Veikkausliiga game in Finland.

The four Nigerians on the books of KuPS namely Azubuike Egwuekwe,Aliyu Abubakar, Gbolahan Salami and Onobi started the game for the 5th place team who were beaten by 3rd placed VPS.

Onobi got his first caution during time added on before the end of the first half before he was dismissed in time added on after regulation time of 90 minutes.

Since joining KuPS in the summer he has made 13 appearances in the league picking up a booking before today’s game which he got sent off for two bookable offenses.

He was a member of the Nigeria B team to the last Africa Nations Championship popularly referred to as CHAN in Rwanda which Nigeria failed to progress past the group stages.

According to reports exclusively gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com, the impending arrival of Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen is the reason why German Bundesliga side Wolfsburg were quick to sanction the transfer of Andre Schurrle to Borussia Dortmund.

Osimhen top striker for the Nigeria Under-20s who recently failed to qualify for the 2017 Africa Youth Championship following a 3-4 loss to Sudan over the weekend joined Wolfsburg after emerging as top scorer at the last U-17 World Cup in Chile.

However after spending time training with the team he returned back to Nigeria to join the U-20 where he has been the last three months before their last game on Saturday against Sudan which ended their hopes of been at next year Africa Under-20s youth championship.

Owngoalnigeria.com can however confirm that he will resume with Wolfsburg in November, a month to his 18th year birthday which will be on the 29th of December when his contract will turn into a professional one.

Already he has been promised he will be joining the first team before he agreed to shun offers from elsewhere to join the German side and the departure of Schurrle is one of the many steps the club is taking to smoothen his path to the first team before his arrival.

Former Nigeria youth international Chidi Osuchukwu has been promoted to the first team of Portuguese side SC Braga, Owngoalnigeria.com understands.

Since signing a four year deal with the Portuguese team in 2013 he has spent most of his time with the B team with just one first team appearance to his name which was in 2014 when he came on as a 59th minute substitute in a game that ended 1-1.

22 year old Osuchukwu was a part of the Nigeria U-20 team to the World Youth Championship in Turkey in 2013 and following his promotion he has been involved in pre season with the first team.

However his Nigerian counterpart at the club, Ogana Ugochukwu Lois is still with the B team of Braga with no report of a promotion to the first team despite his fine pre season form.

20 year old Ogana joined Braga last season from Portuguese third division side Ribeirao where he spent two seasons scoring 15 goals from 34 appearances.

In his first season with Braga B ge scored 8 times from 29 games but he has so far scored in all but one of their pre season games.

Arsenal’s latest signing Kelechi Nwakali has confirmed to close friends and associates that he will arrive Arsenal to begin his career with the Gunners on Saturday the 30th of July 2016, Owngoalnigeria.com understands.

His signing was announced by Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger in January but the move was held up because he was yet to clock 18 which he recently did on the 5th June.

Nwakali has already received a six months visa but has been unable to join the Gunners due to his commitments with the Nigeria Under-20s who were involved in the Africa Youth Championship qualifiers.

The highly rated Nigerian teen was voted the best player at the last FIFA Under-17 World Cup and only recently captained the Nigeria Under-20s who failed to qualify for next year Africa Youth Championship following a 3-4 loss to Sudan over the weekend.

He will team up with the B team of Arsenal in training pending when the Gunners are able to secure a work permit for him but according to sources close to the teen he will train with the first team intermittently as well.

18 year old Nigerian forward Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis was the talk of Ukraine owing to his goal for top division side Zorya on his competitive debut for the team in their 3-0 thrashing of Olimpik Donetsk in one of the opening games of the 2016/2017 Ukraine Premier League.

Dennis as reported by Owngoalnigeria.com started off at Football Academy Abuja before he was spotted by scouts of Zorya where he has been since the start of the year took just 19 minutes to make his mark by scoring his team opening goal.

He showed pace, power and composure to bury his effort, a trait he is well known for during his days with the Abuja Academy and as reported by Owngoalnigeria.com during pre season with Zorya.

The manner in which he took his goals saw him made the headlines in various tabloids and publications in Ukraine who were unanimous in praising his impact with some even going as far as saying the league is about to unearth a star in the Nigerian.

However what would have been a perfect day for him ended with the forward being booked in the 19th minute when he scored for excessive celebrations when he scored and he got substituted in the 54th minute.

Owngoalnigeria understands that Celtic are in “advanced talks” with Olympiakos of Greece to sign Nigeria international defender Efe Ambrose who has been at Cletic since 2013.

Ambrose a subject of enquiry from Maccabi Tel Aviv as well appears to be heading to Olympiakos following the speed at which talks with the Greek champions are progressing.

The Nigerian who has fallen down the pecking order at Celtic would be allowed to leave following the club recent capture of veteran Ivorian centre back Kolo Toure.

Details of the deal is yet to be made public but Owngoalnigeria.com exclusively gathered that he could join Olympiakos on an initial loan deal before the move will be made permanent next summer although they are chances he could be sold off outrightly.

At Olympiakos he will most likely team up with his international colleague Brown Ideye at the Greek side who are seasoned campaigners in the UEFA Champions League part of the reasons why the Nigerian is willing to join them.

United Arab Emirate recently relegated Football club Al-Fujairah have completed the signing of 22 year old Nigerian forward Olanrewaju Kehinde as a replacement for fellow Nigerian striker Friday Eze who recently joined Al-Qadisiyah of Saudi Arabia on loan.

Last season Kehinde defended the colours of two different Israeli side, spending the first half of the season with Hapoel Kfar Saba before moving in January to Hapoel Acre.

In total he made 26 appearances for both teams with 5 goals to his name, four of which he scored for Hapoel Acre, a poor return of goals going by his tally the previous season.

Kehinde who until recently was owned by top Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv scored 20 goals to power his loan side Hapoel Afula to promotion in the 2014/2015 season but still wasn’t giving a first team chance by Maccabi Tel Aviv.

In the UAE he will be required help them come back to the top flight by filling the big boots of 23 year old Eze who finished top scorer for Al-Fujairah with 14 goals but couldn’t help them stay up in the first league before his loan move to Saudi Arabia.

Well traveled Nigerian forward Bello Envor John has reached an agreement with Turkish side Modafen regarding a transfer which will be made official this week.

Envor will travel in the company of the General Manager of Ace Academy Muritala Raji Mohammed to sign the deal this week in a move that will see the forward return back to Europe where he onced played in Cyprus.

Aside his stint in Cyprus the 22 year old also played in Egypt,Tunisia and Albania with different level of success but returned back to Nigeria after the expiration of his contract.

He will join Modafen as a free agent from his nursery team in Kaduna, Kakuri United where he is presently training to keep fit for the move.

The General Manager of fast growing Ace Academy, the Kaduna based football academy Murtala Mohammed Raji will later this week travel to Turkey for a meeting with four teams in Turkey.

Muri in a chat with Owngoalnigeria.com revealed he has already received his visa and has set up the meeting scheduled to hold this week upon his arrival in the country where they presently have three players.

” I have a meeting with the president of four different teams in Turkey, we looking at how we can have a player exchange programme with at least three of them that is our aim” He told Owngoalnigeria.

” We at Ace Academy are so concerned about the future of the youths we recruit into our set up, so we want to make sure they have enough option to better their life, that is why am heading to Turkey”.

Speaking on the failure of the Nigeria Under-20s to qualify for next year Africa Youth Championship, the soft speaking manager urged Nigerians to accept the apologies from the coaches and the players as one game isn’t enough to judge the progress they have made from U-17-20.

” Nigeria have made mistakes in the past by dumping teams and players after failure to qualify for a major event, this time around let’s dare to be different and stick with coach Emmanuel Amuneke and his lads, in the next two years they will shock us all”.

63 year old former Kano Pillars coach, Ivo Sajh says he can transform Nigeria football in two phases if given the job of the Technical Adviser of the senior national team of Nigeria.

Following Nigeria Under-20s 3-4 loss to Sudan that saw them eliminated from the 2017 Africa Youth Championship, Sajh in his mail made it clear than an holistic approach is needed to revive Nigeria football.

He further said he wasn’t surprised that the Flying Eagles lost to Sudan unlike the rest of the world because to him, the poor state of Nigeria Football is exemplified by the country’s poor ranking by FIFA where they are currently 70th in the world.

The Slovenian in a mail to the official email of Owngoalnigeria pointed out that he has both short term and long term goals for Nigeria football if he is deemed fit enough for the Super Eagles job following French man Paul Le Guen unwillingness to take the job.

His long term goals according to him should see Nigeria Football get back to the summit of global football in six years while he was silent on his short term expectations it obviously centres around qualification for the next major tournament.