BY SAB OSUJI

Chief Donatus Agu-Ejidike,JP, the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, has poured encomium on Nigerias senior national team, the Super Eagles, following their 6-0 thumping of Sao Tome And Principe, in Sunday's dead rubber AFCON Group A qualifier, Exclusivenews.com.ng reports.

The West Africans closed their Ivory Coast 2023 AFCON qualification campaign with a 6-0 battering of "The Patriots"  at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium ,Uyo on Sunday. 

The José Pesseiro charges had earlier recorded a 10-0 win over the harmless Sao Tome and Principe side in the first leg, thus completing an incredible 16-0 white wash of the African Football learners.

Ejidike, who commended the Super Eagles for topping the group with an unassailable fifteen points, in an interaction with journalists  in Ilorin on Sunday, shortly after the match, also congratulated Victor Osimhen, for scoring a hat trick, as well as Taiwo Awoniyi for registering his second Super Eagles career goal, with a well-taken goal inside the box. 

The Anambra-born Sports philanthropist did not leave out, the Italy-based duo of Samuel Chukwueze, and Ademola Lookman, who were the other scorers, as well as every member of the team. 

The Super Eagles have already qualified for the next edition of the African flagship football competition to be hosted by Cote d'Ivoire between January 13 and February 11, next year, with a match to spare. 

Sunday's match was more or less a formality, as its only significance was to determine who top the group and that honour goes to the Nigerian team. 

The former President of the Karate Federation of Nigeria (KFN), therefore, charges the team to cap up their impeccable performance in the qualifiers, with winning the AFCON, come February,2024 in Côte d'Ivoire, to underscore their reputation as one of the power houses of football in Africa.