Salisu picks CHAN team

Head Coach Salisu Yusuf on Tuesday released his
final squad of the Super Eagles B for the
5 African Nations Championship starting in
Morocco next week, with goalkeeper and skipper
Ikechukwu Ezenwa, midfield Trojan Rabiu Ali and
marksman Anthony Okpotu listed.
Ezenwa is joined for the goalkeeping duties by
Oladele Ajiboye and Theophilus Afelokhai, and
defensive stalwarts Osas Okoro, Stephen Eze and
Kalu Orji Okogbue also made the list, as
midfielders Ifeanyi Ifeanyi and Ekundayo Ojo and
forwards Sunday Faleye and Emeka Atuloma.
The team of 23 players and their officials are
expected to fly out of the country in a few days,
to continue preparations in Morocco ahead of
Nigeria’s first match of the campaign against
Rwanda in Tangier on Monday, 15 January.
The 2014 bronze medallists will also play 2014
champions Libya at the same Ibn Batouta
Stadium in Tangier on Friday, 19 January,
before travelling to Agadir to tackle Equatorial
Guinea on Tuesday, 23 January.
FULL LIST
Goalkeepers: Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Enyimba FC);
Oladele Ajiboye (Plateau United); Theophilus
Afelokhai (Enyimba FC)
Defenders : Osas Okoro (Rangers International);
Daniel James (Plateau United); Kalu Orji Okogbue
(Rangers International); Ikouwem Utin (Enyimba
FC); Abdullahi Musa (Wikki Tourists); Timothy
Danladi (Katsina United); Ifeanyi Nweke (Kano
Pillars); Stephen Eze (Kano Pillars)
Midfielders : Ifeanyi Ifeanyi (Akwa United); Rabiu
Ali (Kano Pillars); Augustine Oladapo (Enyimba
FC); Ekundayo Ojo (Sunshine Stars)
Forwards : Emeka Atuloma (Rivers United);
Anthony Okpotu (Lobi Stars); Eneji Moses
(Plateau United); Ibrahim Mustapha (Enyimba
FC); Emeka Ogbuh (Rivers United); Sunday Faleye
(Akwa United); Nura Muhammed (El-Kanemi
Warriors); Okechukwu Gabriel (Akwa United)