I was in tears to hear the shocking news about the passing away of Nigeria’s prolific striker and goal machine, Rashidi Yekini. I did not entirely feel sad for his demise but for the way it happened. Yekini gave Nigeria everything, he gave his full potentials to the Super-Eagles( or maybe I should have said the sleeping rat as they have continually failed in recent times), he scored goals for fun and is still celebrated as Nigeriatop goal scorer, netting 37 times in 58 appearances.

The phrase, “our government has failed again” is not new as it has formed a normal day slogan in the lips of numerous Nigerians. Everyone knew Yekini was ill except the NFF, rather they were busy calculating how to modernize their looting mechanics. This is a calamity in the highest degree, I never heard the NFF ever tried to find out what was wrong with this prolific striker let alone providing medical assistance.

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