NPFL To Honour Late Henry Nwosu On Matchday 30

Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Otunba Gbenga Elegbeleye, has directed that 60 seconds silence be observed before kickoff at all NPFL Matchday 30 games this weekend in honour of late Henry Nwosu.

The NPFL boss would describe the death of Ex Green Eagles captain, Nwosu, as a personal loss to him and a general loss to the club football family in the country.

Nwosu, the youngest member of the national team that won Nigeria’s first Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, reportedly died in the early hours of Saturday, March 14 at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

Elegbeleye described the late Nwosu as “a personal friend whom i have maintained communication with right from my time at the National Sports Commission.”

When Elegbeleye was nominated for the Pitch Football Awards, Nwosu was one of the prominent voices that endorsed the NPFL Chairman, seizing the opportunity to narrate the personal relationship they shared.

In a condolence message, the NPFL Chairman described the news of the passing as “the death of a true ambassador of the domestic and national team football because he not only made his mark as a player in league clubs, he also coached some of the league clubs”.

On a philosophical note, the NPFL Chief said that death is a human submission to the will of God, and prayed for the repose of his soul and strength for the immediate family to endure through the agonising period of losing a loved one.

Nwosu was a famed schoolboy football player who later featured for some of the dominant football clubs of the 1980s, including the defunct New Nigeria Bank and African Continental Bank.