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Nigeria: Former Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, Is Dead
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Tinubu, Obi lead tributes as Nigeria mourns goalkeeper Peter Rufai
President Bola Tinubu and former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi have paid glowing tributes to the late Nigerian football legend, Peter Rufai, who passed away on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the age of 61 after a brief illness. In a condolence statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu described Rufai as “a patriotic sportsman who wrote his name in gold.” The President lauded the late goalk…
Peter Rufai, emblematic goalkeeper of Nigerian football, prince of a tribe of Idimu (a region of Lagos) who chose to devote himself to the ball before being king, died on Thursday in his country at 61 years of age because of a cardiac arrest while resting in his residence. Rufai defended his country in the 1994 and 1998 World Cups of the United States and France and wore the T-shirts of Hercules and Deportivo in the late 1990s from the leagues o…
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Goalkeeper Peter Rufai has passed away at the age of 61. This was announced by the Nigerian Football Association. Rufai made a splash as Nigeria's national goalkeeper and also spent one season in goal at Go Ahead Eagles, where he alternated world-class saves with less successful moments.
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