Former Nigeria captain Segun Odegbami is calling for a full investigation into the death of Rashidi Yekini. The 1993 African Footballer of the Year died earlier this month aged 48. Yekini was reportedly kidnapped shortly before his death, but the actual ...

The death of Rashidi Yekinni has come and gone, yet I still cannot help but confess that I’m yet to come to terms with the tragic reality of the sad end of this departed soccer legend. I certainly still cannot help the trauma and the shock ...

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Former Nigeria international Rashidi Yekini passed away on Friday in Ibadan after suffering from mental illness for the past two years. The ex-striker, who was only 48, is Nigeria's all-time record goalscorer after netting 37 times in 58 matches ...

A retired Nigerian footballer, Rashidi Yekini who scored the country’s first goal at the World Cup is dead. Yekini who was born in Kaduna was said to have died in his Kwara residence. Though, the circumstances surrounding his death were still sketchy at ...

NFF President Aminu Maigari will be at the head of Nigeria Football Federation’s delegation to the eighth day prayer for departed Super Eagles’ legend Rashidi Yekini. The prayer holds in his family compound in Ira, Kwara State in the morning of ...

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Bocande reportedly had a stroke several months ago. CAF president Issa Hayatou described Bocande's death as another blow to African football after Nigeria's all-time leading scorer Rashidi Yekini died on Friday. Bocande was top scorer in the ...

African football legends - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has paid tribute to two African football legends, Rashidi Yekini of Nigeria and Jules Bocande of Senegal, who recently passed away within the space of a few days. FIFA said both Yekini and Bocande both ...