After several anxious months, world football governing body FIFA have finally cleared Ademola Lookman and Ovie Ejaria to play for the Super Eagles, according to media reports.
Forward Lookman and midfielder Ejaria have previously featured for England at various age-grade levels but have now opted to play for Nigeria, where their parents were born.
Lookman plays for Red Bull Leipzig but was on loan at Fulham in the Premier League in England this past season.
He is a direct-playing forward and weighs in with his own fair share of goals and assists.
Ejaria, on the other hand, is a creative central midfielder with Reading FC in the English Championship.
The 23-year-old player was previously on the books of Premier League outfit Liverpool.
His creativity will be most welcomed in the Eagles midfield with his great vision and wide range of passing skills.
We thank the NFF president, Mr. Melvin Pinnick and other executives for this great development. Rohr now have enough players to select from and there is no excuse for failure both for world cup qualifiers and winning the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon. However, I want the NFF president to intensify the case of change of nationality of Ike Ugbo who is still been delayed by FIFA because of clearance document(s) from Scottish FA. We also like to know what is going on with Michael Olise of Reading, who is ready to play for us, but was not issued the Nigeria Passport when he was first invited. All these should be settled before the commencement of the World Cup Africa qualifier in last day of August, 2021.
We already have enough wingers. We only need theese 3pkayers to contest in next years world cup semi final. To be the first to do so. Tomori, Eze and Torunaregha. Any player aside this guys are subordinates not major
Also Rohr needs to be removed. He is not ambitious enough to handle the team. We need Coach who is hungry and desperate to create record to bring the best out of our golden Generation team. Me is the best candidate for the job
This is good development for Nigeria. These players will add great values to Nigeria.