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Iheanacho beats Yekini, Siasia’s records

Manchester
City forward, Kelechi Iheanacho’s strike at the 42nd minute of the World Cup
Qualifier involving Super Eagles and Zambia on Sunday afternoon saw him break
the record for goals in consecutive games. The 20 year-old found the net for
the fourth straight game in the Super Eagles 2-1, beating records set by Rashidi
Yekini and Samson Siasia, who both scored in three consecutive matches for the
Super Eagles. 


The CAF Most Promising Talent Of The Year registered his name in the score sheets during his first two games
for Nigeria,  1-0 win over Mali in May,
as well as against Luxembourg, Tanzania and Zambia.

While Yekini netted scored in three consecutive games at the 1990 African
Nations Cup, against Egypt, Ivory Coast and Zambia, former Eagles coach Siasia scored
against Benin Republic in an AFCON qualifier in 1991 as well as against Burkina
Faso and Senegal.
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Rashidi Yekini's daughter wants her father's death probed

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Four years after her father, Rashidi Yekini’s death, the eldest daughter of the iconic footballer, Yemisi Rashidi Yekini has appealed to the Federal Government to probe her father’s death. The Leicester-based cinematography undergraduate made this statement while speaking to journalists in Ibadan yesterday. 
“We want to know how my father died. I asked my mom how it happened, she said she didn’t know. She said she was told that he died in a place some of his family members forcefully took him to,” The 21 year-old said.
She also disclosed plans to convert the late iconic footballer’s duplex in Ibadan to a museum. 
“It is my dream to convert my father’s house where he lived till he died into a museum to keep his memory alive. I want the place to be where people can go to for information. In addition, I am planning a good testimonial match in his honour. I know Nigerians loved him and would wish he gets a proper send forth from football, even if it is a posthumous one,” She added.
Source: ThisDay
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Rashidi Yekini, Best Ogedengbe, others to receive Federation Cup honour.

Former Nigeria internationals, Rashidi Yekini, Best Ogedegbe;
Okey Isima, Friday Ekpo , Sam Opone, Amusa Adisa, Inua Rigogo, Dairu Sadi, Ifeanyi
Onyedika, Baba Out, referee Linus MBA, and seasoned journalist, Segun Adenuga
will be honored by the Nigeria Football Federation won Sunday at the Final of
the 2015 Federation Cup Finals.

They will be recognized because of their significant
contributions in making the Federation Cup the most glamorous football
tournament in Nigeria. The free-to- attend event will see attendees winning the
sum of N200,000 via a raffle draw, this is
courtesy of the NFF and the Lagos State Sports Commission.
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Rashidi Yekini's daughter to hold talks with Portuguese club over her father's foundation.

‎Yemisi Yekini, the daughter of the late African football icon, Rashidi Yekini will be meeting officials of her father’s former club, Victoria Setubal in Portugal over her planned foundation for him.‎ Recall that the Portuguese club few weeks ago paid tribute to the Nigerian soccer star 3 years after his painful demise.. (Read it here )
Yekini’s lawyer, Jubril Mohammed, confirmed Yemisi’s planned trip to Portugal in an interview with Premium Times.
“Yes, Yemisi should be in Portugal from the 25th of July; she plans to spend her vacation there and more importantly hold discussions with officials of Victoria Setubal on her planned Foundation for her late dad. She is not getting the desired help here so she has to go to where she is wanted,” the lawyer stated.‎
He also lauded the decision of the League Management Company to name the highest goals scorer award category of the Nigeria Premier League after Yekini.
“We are grateful, they gave our proposal a favourable look-in, and it is a step in the right direction.”

The 19 year-old lady who visited her father’s former club in August 2014  expressed happiness at the rare honour bestowed on her late Dad.

“I feel very honoured and proud to know that my father had much impact here. I am very happy and excited. It is one of the happiest days of my life. My father died about two years ago and I wanted to know a bit of the city and the club he represented in Portugal. Despite him being a very private person and did not talk much of his career, I always got used to view his photos as a player and the trophies he won. I know he was very happy in Victoria,” she told the Portuguese club’s official website.


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LMC to name goal scorer award after Yekini

In a bid to immortalize one of Nigeria’s legend, Late Rashidi Yekini, the League management company have named the yet-to-be unveiled highest goal scorer trophy for the NPFL after him.

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The chairman of the LMC, mallam Shehu Dikko made this know in a statement on the league’s website.

“There is a broad plan to institute awards and honour outstanding players, officials, key stakeholders and fans in the league at the end of every season and there are a number of factors that led us to reach the decision to name one of these awards, that of the highest goal scorer after the late Rasheed Yekini,” said Dikko.

“The awards is part of strategic plans of the LMC to create commercial value and additional revenues out of the assets


inherent in the league property. “We considered the aspiration factor which seeks to let the players know that they too can become national heroes if
they achieve excellence and make a success of their career.
“It says to them that they too can become legends of the game and the society will honour them as we have sought ‎to honour the late Yekini,” he concluded.

Rashidi Yekini was a prolific striker and he bagged 37goals for the Super Eagles in 58appearances.‎
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Photo: 3 years after his death, Rashidi Yekini remembered in Portugal.

3 years after his shocking and painful death, Nigerian football legend has been remembered by his former club, Vitoria de Setubal of Portugal.
Nigerians have taken to social media to vent their disappointment with the Nigerian Football Administration for failing to honour him with a befitting memorial years after his demise. Some of his colleagues were not left out, they have also been slammed for not paying tributes to the iconic footballer.
Yekini holds the record of the highest goal scorer in the national team scoring 37 goals in 58 appearances. Born on October 23, 1963 in Kaduna, he featured in several local clubs like the IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan and the defunct Abiola Babes before he moved to Cote d’Ivoire to play for Africa Sports National. From there he joined Vitoria de Setubal of Portugal.
His incredible feats in his career earned him several accolades including the African Footballer of the Year title in 1993, the first ever in the country.‎ He got a spot in history books for scoring Nigeria’s first ever world cup goal. He was Nigeria’s marksman in 1994 as the Super Eagles won the 1994 Nation’s Cup in Tunisia. 
He passed on on 4th May 2012 at the age of 48. He was rumoured to have suffered mental illness for years before he breathed his last.
May his soul find repose. Amen
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Sad: Rashidi Yekini's sister dies in fatal accident

Such a tragic news! May God comfort the Yekinis! 21 months after Super Eagles forward and football legend, Rashidi Yekini died after a brief illness, his younger sister, Rofiat Yekini has also passed on; Barrister Mohammed Jubril, the Nigeria’s highest goal-scorer of all time’s lawyer confirmed via a statement.

According to him, the mother of three was heading to Offa after a business trip when an 18-seater vehicle she was in rammed into a lorry, leaving three occupants dead and others injured. The accident occurred along Okuku-Osogbo road on Wednesday 27th February 2013 at about 1pm.

May her soul find repose! Amen

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NFF TO IMMORTALIZE RASHIDI YEKINI

Speaking during the fidau prayer of late Super Eagles’s striker, Rashidi Yekini held on Saturday 12th May 2012 at Kwara state, the Nigeria Football Federation President, Aminu Maigari, revealed that the NFF would immortalise the deceased hero. Not only have NFF decided to name the U-17 tournament after him, proceeds from an international football match which will be organized in his honour would also go to his family.
The NFF, through its first vice President, Chief Mike Umeh, also donated N500,000 to the immediate family of the late star footballer who left behind three wives and three daughters .
“NFF is not going to close its eyes in taking care of Yekini’s family. It is going to ensure that through the Minister of Youths and Sports, Yekini has a national honour.
There are many more things to come.  The moment we have our executive meeting in Abuja next week, we will get back to Yekini’s family. Yekini is not a man to be forgotten in a hurry.”
Maigari affirmed.
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PHOTOS: SORROW&TEARS AS RASHIDI YEKINI IS LAID TO REST

The late football legend, Rashidi Yekini was finally laid to rest at his Ira, Kwara State hometown amidst torrents of tears by family members, sympatizers, colleagues&friends.

"The last time I saw my Dad was last Tuesday and we spoke very well. I'm going to miss him. He is the best father in the world," Yemi Yekini, daughter of the late footballer.

Dignitaries who came to pay their last respect include members of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ike Shorunmu, Oyo Sports Commissioner, Dapo Lam Adesina, Mutiu Adepoju, Dimeji Lawal, Ajibade Babalade as well as representatives of Governors of Osun, Oyo, Kwara who (the three) made a cash donation of one million naira each.
According to reports, while some were happy at the gesture, others deemed it belated, they claimed it would have been used to treat his ailment.

Photo credit: Premium Times

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NIGERIAN FOOTBALL LEGEND, RASHIDI YEKINI DIES

After so many speculations, it has been confirmed that Nigerian football legend Rashidi Yekini is dead.
According to sources which include sports analysts, colleagues& other footballers, the striker died this evening at Osogbo at the age of 48.
He would be buried according to muslim rites at his family House in Otta tomorrow.
He was the first Nigerian ever to be recognized as the best player on the African continent& was the most valuable player at the 1994 Cup of Nations.

May his gentle soul find repose

An Eagle has soared O_O

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