Egypt’s Pharaohs fell to Nigeria’s Super Eagles’ defeat of 4-2 on penalties.
The win earned the Super Eagles a third place bronze medal in the Africa Cup of Nations final.
The game, played in Casablanca, saw the first half dominated by Egypt, but it was their opponents who went the closest to taking the lead.
Nigeria’s Paul Onuachu had his goal overturned by VAR on 36 minutes in what was the best chance of the opening 45 minutes.
In the second half, Egypt continued to enjoy more of the ball, but Nigeria did well to defend as a unit and limited their opponents to just one shot on target.
Nothing would separate the two sides come the full-time whistle, with the medal to be decided via a penalty shootout.
Egypt’s first two spot kicks, taken by Mohamed Salah and Marmoush, were saved by Stanley Nwabali before Nigeria saw out the shootout to win 4-2.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
