Remo Stars unveil Super Eagles star

Remo Stars' Junior Lokosa signing the dotted lines for the Blues last season.

NPFL Remo Stars unveil Super Eagles star

Hassan Abdulsalam 17:32 - 22.03.2023

The Ikenne club, with only eight goals in nine matches in the NPFL this season, have bolstered their attacking option

Remo Stars have completed the signing of the 2018 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) top scorer, Junior Lokosa, from Qatari club Al-Rayyan.

Pulse Sports reported that Remo Stars manager Daniel Ogunmodele revealed that his club is in the market for strikers ahead of the second round in the NPFL.

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The Ikenne club have scored only eight goals in nine matches in the NPFL this season and are currently 5th in Group A.

The team is banking on Lokosa to replicate his goal-scoring form when the NPFL resumes on March 25.

Lokosa arrives at the club as a Nigeria international, although he has just one cap for the Super Eagles, which came in friendly game against the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018. 

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Remo Stars boss Daniel Ogunmodede

Ogunmoded said that the Blues are in the market for solutions to their lack of cutting-edge in the final third.

“We also have injury worries, but I can tell you that we have two new strikers in our camp. We are looking at their performances ahead of the second round.

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“We are in the market to get new strikers,” Ogunmodele said per Oyosports news. “We created lots of chances in the first round but were unable to convert them.”

Remo Stars profile ahead of NPFL return

The Sky Blue Stars had an explosive January, winning three of their first-round matches and scoring five goals while maintaining clean sheets in those fixtures.

Remo Stars
Godwin Odibo of Remo Stars.

Unfortunately, since defeating the Shooting Stars in game week three, the Blues' fortunes have turned sour, winning only one of their last six games.

The Remo Stars were knocked out of the Ogun State FA Cup by their academy team, Beyond Limit.

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