Peter Fregene
6 Dec
The late Peter Fregene’s funeral rites ended last weekend. What you are reading now is the dialogue that emanated from my piece of last Friday. It’s a dialogue between a constant reader the one and only IBK and the columnist. IBK: Prof TA, I read your nice, very fine, eulogy for, and obituary of, for…
29 Nov
I am dropping the words I am dropping now as tears are dropping profusely and profusely from my eyes dripping with the flavour of complete pain. Peter Fregene, Nigeria’s longest-serving goal-keeper, is the cause of the very painful pain
12 Oct
Nigeria’s longest serving goalkeeper, Peter Fregene is now receiving first-class treatment and is being stabilised in the Intensive Care Unit at Delta State Teaching Hospital, Oghara.
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The alarm raised by former Green Eagles Captain, Segun Odegbami, over the deteriorating health of the longest-serving national team goalkeeper, Peter Fregene, has started yielding dividends, although the man is still on life-support in Sapele, Delta State.
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