Ighalo, who joined Al Hilal from Al Shabab in January, has been in inspiring form for the Saudi Arabian side since moving.
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The former Manchester United striker departed Al Shabab in acrimonious circumstances in the January transfer window.
Ighalo, who initially retired from international football after the last AFCON in 2019, returned to national team football action last year.
The 32-year-old former Manchester United and Watford striker, top scorer at the last Nations Cup in 2019, was initially given a deadline of Tuesday to confirm his availability by interim Super Eagles coach Augustine Eguavoen.
Manager Eddie Howe is looking to upgrade his forward options in January – with help from the club’s ultra-rich Saudi owners – and Ighalo is one of many players the former Bournemouth boss is looking at.
Ighalo is now playing for Al Shabab and recalled an offer being made in 2008 from Loko.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this known in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Religious Freedom Designations’.
Fani-Kayode premised his call on the testimony of an unnamed mother of a kidnapped student who claimed that Gumi facilitated a meeting with a “Fulani from Kaduna” who, with the cleric’s approval, took N800,000 from her as “transport” despite her pleading that she was a widow.
The latter had attempted to defend the indefensible by seeking to justify and rationalise the despicable and totally unacceptable submissions and actions of the embattled Minister of Communications, Sheik Isa Pantami.
The forward, who scored his first goal for Al Shabab last Saturday, in their 4-0 defeat of Al Nassr, was substituted after starring for 63 minutes.
Having failed to score on his debut versus Al Raed, the 31-year-old made his presence count as the White Lions extended their winning streak to four at the King Saud University Stadium.
The Nigerian international, 31, shared photos of himself and his agent in Riyadh following their arrival in Saudi.
The Nigerian striker has been linked with moves to Dubai, the Premier League and the MLS but a switch to the Middle East is now close to being completed after the two sides agreed to a deal.
The United States has placed Nigeria and six other countries on the special watch list of states that had engaged in or tolerated the severe violation of religious freedom.
No fewer than 18 people were killed and more than 30 wounded as the Islamic militants attacked the hotel close to the presidential palace in Mogadishu as two suicide bombers detonated two car bombs outside the entrance.
The officer said the attack occurred a week after al-Shaabab hit Yumbis, Welmareer and Damajale in Garissa county, but were repelled by the army and police
He said there was another $100,000 for the capture or killing of nine other leaders of the Al- Qaida linked group, including the mastermind of the Kenya university siege in which 148 were killed
The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added
The group has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s gunmen attack at a university campus in Kenya in which 147 people were killed
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the killings, as a bunch of cowardly extremists who have no place in a decent society