Nigeria U17 squad announcement: Manu Garba picks 19  players for WAFU B U17 Championship

The Nigeria Football Federation have announced the Golden Eaglets squad list for the 2024 WAFU B U17 Championship.

Nigeria U17 boss Manu Garba has selected nineteen players for the tournament which commences on Wednesday, 15th May in Ghana. 

The Golden Eaglets begin their defence of the title when they confront their counterparts from Burkina Faso at the University Stadium on Thursday, 16th May with kickoff set for 3pm Ghana time (4pm Nigeria time), before matches against Niger Republic on Sunday, 19th May (6pm Ghana, 7pm Nigeria) and Togo on Wednesday, 22nd May (4pm Ghana, 5pm Nigeria).

 The match against Niger Republic will also hold at the University Stadium while the clash with Togo will take place at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Golden Eaglets, five-time champions of the world, swept aside every opposition before them to achieve glory in another Ghanaian city, Kumasi two years ago, but failed to light up the Africa U17 Cup of Nations in Algeria and were therefore ineligible to compete for another world title in Indonesia.

 However, 2013 Fifa World Cup – winning coach Manu Garba has been restored to the squad and will take charge of the ensemble that will tackle Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and Togo in Group B of the upcoming WAFU B tournament, with the objective being qualification to take part in next year's Africa U17 Cup of Nations.

 Garba will lead a technical crew that has the mandate of not only successfully defending the regional crown, but to continue to improve the squad for a great outing at the U17 AFCON and onwards to a probable sixth world title.

Golden Eaglets 19-man squad: Adekunle Sunday Adedigba, 2.Sylvester Chizoba Chika, 3. Daniel Ofonime Mendie, 4.Destiny Samuel, 5.Abdulwaris Yunus, 6.Boluwatife David Ekishola, 7. Ibrahim Damilare Abdulganiyu, 8. Edward Oloche Ochigbo,9 Rapha Adams, 10. Simon Karshe Cletus, 11. Oreoluwa Olawale Agbenla, 12.Okorie Marvelous Chibuike, 13 Abdulmuiz Adeleke, 14. John Ogwuche, 15. Qurib Adetola, 16.Chinedu Levi Dominic, 17.Abdulmuiz Oluwatimilehin Oladimeji, 18.Daniel Vowero Arierhi, 19. Imrana Muhammad

Ifeanyi Emmanuel