It's A Girl! Joseph and Adaeze Yobo welcome baby no 3!

There’s a new addition to the Yobo family!
The ex-beauty queen, Adaeze Yobo and her husband, the former Super Eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo have welcomed a baby girl. The  couple already have two handsome boys, Joey and Jayden Yobo, who are 7 and 2 respectively.

The ex Everton defender and his wife got married in 2010 in a midnight ceremony held in Jos.

Joseph Yobo to help prisons' inmates secure bail

In a very surprising move, ex Nigeria international, Joseph Yobo has vowed to help inmates currently awaiting trials in the prisons secure bail through his foundation. The ex Nigerian captain made this revelation at the inauguration of Ikoyi Prisons Football Academy in Lagos. 

“I have never been to the prisons in my life, but on getting to Ikoyi prisons, I realised the importance to give hope and life to someone. The Joseph Yobo Foundation is ready to do everything within it means to grant bail to as many as possible that are awaiting trial especially those in the facility’s football academy. I thought I will see persons looking very sad, but I saw them very happy, cheerful and looking very hopeful. “I must indeed commend the authorities of the Nigerian Prisons service because from what I have seen on ground, the service is in the right track,” Yobo said
The Kano Pillars ambassador added. “We want to give back to the society in our little way by giving hope to our brothers behind the bars and give them a second chance because no one is above mistake,”

Joseph Yobo to play in the Nigeria Premier League

Former captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Joseph Yobo, will be playing in the last 12 games of the Nigerian Premier Football League in his new role as NPFL ambassador. The announcement was made on the twitter handle of the League Management Company (LMC) the body responsible for organizing the Nigeria Professional League (NPFL).

This news is coming less than a month after he was appointed the Special Assistant on Sports Development to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. The 35 year old Yobo holds the record for most caps in the history of the Nigeria national team.

Joseph Yobo appointed Special Assistant On Sports Development

Few days after he held his star-studded testimonial match, Nigeria’s most capped footballer, Joseph Yobo has been appointed as Senior Special Assistant on Sports Development to The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. 
A statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor on Electronic Media, said the appointments take immediate effect. 

This is not the first time the Soccer legend will be delving into politics, recall that the former Everton player campaigned heavily for the erstwhile Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

Yobo Testimonial match is today! Watch a documentary on the Nigerian soccer icon.

A host of Nigerian and international footballers will converge today, May 27th in Port Harcourt as soccer legend, Joseph Yobo bows out of competitive football. The centenary game which is scheduled to hold at 4pm will have in attendance sports heavyweights like John Terry, Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, Jay jay Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo and a host of others.
As the clock ticks down to the highly anticipated star-studded game, sit back and watch a documentary on Nigeria’s most capped player, courtesy of Akonitv

Enyeama, Emenike to feature in Yobo Testimonial match


Ex Super Eagles players, Vincent Enyeama and Emmanuel Emenike will honour their countryman, Joseph Yobo by playing in the forthcoming testimonial match. The duo who hung their boots last year confirmed their participation in the game which is scheduled to hold on May 27 at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt. The event coordinator told PUNCH about the development.

“We have a confirmation to that effect and there are many other goodies
lined up for fans because Yobo is so passionate about this project. “Emmanuel is coming. He spoke with me personally and I am so elated with the love shown by my colleagues.”
He said.

Lagos to host a befitting testimonial for Yobo

The Lagos State Government is set to celebrate the career of former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo who became the first Nigerian to reach 100 national cups and retired afterwards. A befitting testimonial match will be held in his honour soon. 
 Adeboye Anthony Adeyinka, Senior Special Assistant on Sports to the Lagos State Governor disclosed to Goal that “The match will be played in Lagos but it will not be a Lagos thing alone because Yobo played for Nigeria so it will also be a Federation event.” 
The former defender made his debut for the national team on March 24, 2001 in an Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Zambia in Chingola. He featured in three FIFA World Cup Finals as well as six African Cup of Nations Finals.

100th Cap: NFF to honour Vincent Enyeama

The Nigeria Football Federation has announced plans to honour Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama when he makes his 100th appearance for Nigeria during their friendly match against Bolivia on March 26. Enyeama would be celebrated at the Uyo Stadium in front of fans, friends and colleagues.
The Lille skipper would become the second Nigerian player to reach the milestone, the first being ex-captain Joseph Yobo during the match between Nigeria and Argentina at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Nothing matches being recognized by your own country. I am very excited at the prospect of reaching 100 caps, and more so at the decision by the NFF to honour me on the day.” 

“The NFF media department has also been speaking with me and I have followed the publicity they have generated about it. It is a delight. I am also excited by the fact that it will happen in Uyo, my hometown. What a great honour!” Enyeama said.

Enyeama made his debut for the national team in May 2002, played at three World Cups, led the team to win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa and was recently named the 2014 Goal Nigeria Player of the Year. His memorable match was against Argentina in 2010.
“I can tell you that is one match I will always remember. I was highly inspired, and although we lost, I was selected the Man of the Match. We lost 0-1 but Lionel Messi did not score. That was some sort of joy for me.” he added.‎

"Buhari was a gallant soldier but no one can cheat nature". Joseph Yobo writes

Ex Nigerian footballer turned partisan-politician, Joseph Yobo has questioned the health fitness of General Buhari for not showing up at the recently-held one million march organized by the APC in Lagos . His article is titled, “Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is The Fittest Of Them All?” Read below.
“For the sake of clarity, I must first point out that while all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, it is all work and no exercise that makes him an unfit one. 
From all indications earlier in the week, Friday 7th March, 2015 was meant to be a busy day for members and supporters of both the ruling People’s Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives’ Congress.

In Abuja, there was a scheduled fitness march to keep the blood of Nigerian sports people along with party hierarchy and President Goodluck Jonathan, buzzing. An equivalent march in Lagos, billed initially to be a million-man march of opposition members was to hold in Lagos from Maryland to Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.
As early as 8am, I and several other supporters of the President walked with him from Aso Rock to Eagle Square where we also jogged around. Some of the pictures from the walk have been swarming social media; one in particular stood out. It was that of President Jonathan doing the hop in an aerobics session.
Pictures of him working out in the gym have surfaced from time to time and this further proved that the man is mentally and physically fit to rule Nigeria. Immediately after the rally ended at 11am, he went back to the State House, freshened up and flew to pay courtesy visits to the Ooni of Ife and Owa Obokun of Ijesaland and attend rallies in their domain.
Enter General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). After he and his party played hide-and-seek with Nigerians over his whereabouts, the man returned to the country and was conspicuously missing from a march that was the perfect opportunity for him and the top party brass to reassure their supporters that he was fit as a fiddle.
The job of president of a country with over 170 million people is a a tasking one and surely it would have been convenient for a man who insists he was on a two-week rest to have at least walked with the people who will vote him for say one-thirds of the march?
The party chieftains including Bola Tinubu and even its vice-presidential candidate, Prof. Yomi Osinbajo were present at the final stop, so why was the arrowhead of the campaign missing in action?
Why is the opposition shoving in our youthful faces, a grandfather who needs rest, an elder statesman who ought to be chilling in his country home in times like this? 
Assuming their candidate wins the presidential elections, will he disappear periodically too?
Nigerians must take a stand and decide to do what is right. Seeing is believing; we cannot saddle ourselves with a President whose health challenges will affect his output in office. General Buhari was once a gallant soldier but no one can cheat nature.
I, who by the grace of God and the support of sports loving President Jonathan led the Super Eagles to historic victory in the Africa Cup of Nations after a trophy less 19 years and having played football at the highest levels can boldly affirm that the secret to the game is in endurance, and the events of recent times point us to the fact that Nigeria needs just the man who stood and can last. The Game is on.

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