Super Eagles striker Sadiq Umar has bought famous Kaduna club Ranchers Bees with the hope of the team soon playing again in the Nigerian top league.
SCORENigeria learnt that the Kaduna-born Real Sociedad star bought the club along with top politician Bello El-Rufai.
Nura Abdullahi, who played alongside Sadiq Umar in Italy, has been named as club President.
WAFU Cup winners in 1993, the club have also been renamed Ranchers Bees Kaduna.
They will campaign in the second-tier NNL with the plan to soon win promotion to the NPFL.
In their hey days, some of Nigeria’s top stars like Daniel Amokachi, Dahiru Sadi, Dominic Iorfa, Davidson Owumi, Ayo Ogunlana featured for Ranchers Bees.
