The egos have landed

Festus Onigbinde is clearly a man who enjoys a challenge. Not only was he given just three months to mould Nigeria into a team capable of challenging at the World Cup finals, but he inherits a side renowned for harbouring huge egos amid the undoubted talent.

The Super Eagles dispensed with the services of Shaibu Amodu shortly after Nigeria’s relative failure at the African Cup of Nations in Mali.