22 home based Super Eagles players are currently at in training camp in Abuja ahead of the 2016 African Nations Championship.
Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh invited 26 players to camp ahead of CHAN and the team media officer Toyin Ibitoye has revealed that 22 of these players have arrived in camp.
Usman Mohammed and Bature Yaro are the only players yet to report to camp as at the time of this report.
he pair are were part of the Nigeria Dream Team VI that just won the concluded U-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal.
“The duo of U-23’s Usman Mohammed and Bature Yaro are expected before the team jets out to South Africa,” Ibitoye said.
“At the moment, they are enjoyng their short break as well as Rangers defender Matthew Etim, who only this past weekend got married.”
The Super Eagles home based players will camp in Pretoria, South Africa, ahead of the tournament.
Sunday Oliseh will not be in the Abuja camp but will meet with the squad in Pretoria.
The squad are due to depart for South Africa next week before they will fly to Rwanda for the CHAN.
They open their 2016 CHAN campaign against Niger on January 18 in Kigali. Tunisia and Guinea are the other teams in Nigeria’s first round group.
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