The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, announced the appointments of Abdu Maikaba and Eboboritse Uwejamomere as head coaches of the U-20 and U-17 boys’ national teams, respectively.
 
Maikaba, who has managed several of Nigeria’s prestigious clubs, has also previously coached the U-17 boys’ team, known as Golden Eaglets. He was the assistant coach of the U-20 boys, Flying Eagles, during the period Paul Aigbogun served as head coach.
 
The soft-spoken tactician has served time with top-of-the-range teams like Enyimba FC, Wikki Tourists, Kano Pillars and Plateau United, and famously led Akwa United FC to win the oldest and most prestigious football competition in the land (now known as the President’s Federation Cup) in 2017.
 
Eboboritse Uwejamomere, the new head coach of five-time world champions, Golden Eaglets, has served as coach-analyst with the senior men’s national team, Super Eagles, for many years now.
 
He is currently head of academy at wave-making Sporting Lagos FC, which recently gained promotion back to the NPFL, and worked as analyst with the senior women’s national team, Super Falcons, as well as academy youth development coach at Millwall FC, Gillingham FC and Nottingham Forest FC in England. He was also the head coach at Abeokuta-based Stormers FC.