The Minister had last year offered financial lifeline to mothers of late internationals Rashidi Yekini<\/em>, Samuel Okwaraji<\/em>, Ali Jeje Ibrahim<\/em> and quater miler Sunday Bada<\/em>.
Sofoluwe<\/em>, nicknamed Dean of Defence by legendary radio commentator Ernest Okonkwo<\/em> for his defence prowess won 40 caps for the Super Eagles and scored one goal .He held away in the right back position between1983 and 1988, playing at the 1984 and 1988 African Nations Cups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also played for defunct Abiola Babes of Abeokuta , IICC of Ibadan, Gateway football Club of Abeokuta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sofoluwe<\/em> is currently at ICU at LUTH waiting to undergo brain Surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media team of the Honorable Minister of Youth and Sports Development<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister of Youth and sports Development Mr. Sunday Dare has come to the rescue of ailing former Super Eagles defender Yisa Sofoluwe who is reportedly down with a brain ailment. The Minister over the weekend sent money through another ex international to support the medical bill of the ace defender. In addition, the Minister has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1415,314,38,22,1483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}