Sports
Elderson Echiejile joins Sivasspor on loan
Nigeria’s Elderson Echiejile has signed a one-year loan deal with Turkish Super Lig club Sivasspor after a successful medical on Friday.
The Super Eagles left-back, who joined AS Monaco from Braga in 2014, has managed just over 30 appearances with the French champions.
And the 29-year old is joining the newly promoted Turkish top-flight club, a third loan stint having been to Standard Liege and Sporting Gijon.
Read Also: Iheanacho close to Leicester move
The club Sivasspor confirmed the deal on their official website on Friday.
“Our club signed a one-year contract with the Nigerian left-back, Elderson Echiejile, to be effective as of the 2017/18 season,” a statement on the website reads.
Echiejile is Sivasspor’s third signing after they hooked Ivorian Arouna Kone and Hakan Bilgic.
RipplesNigeria ….without borders, without fears
Click here to download the Ripples Nigeria App for latest updates
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...