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Fit-again Chelsea
midfielder John Obi Mikel will join up with the rest of his Super
Eagles team-mates at their pre-World Cup camp on Thursday night upon
conclusion of his rehabilitation programme.

The versatile
midfielder missed Chelsea’s last four Premier League games as well as
their FA Cup final win over Portsmouth after suffering a knee injury in
April. He subsequently underwent knee surgery, raising doubts over his
participation at the World Cup in South Africa.

The 23-year-old has
been in England since the conclusion of the season and wasn’t around
for the send forth dinner organised for the Super Eagles in Abuja. He
wasn’t also available for Tuesday night’s goalless draw against Saudi
Arabia but will now join up with the rest of the squad who are already
back at their base camp in Essex, near London.

Other injury concerns

Also not available
for the game against the Saudis was Onyekachi Apam who was nursing an
injury but, according to a statement made available to NEXTSports by
the media officer of the Nigeria Football Federation Ademola Olajire,
the defender appears to have overcome his injury setback after training
together with the rest of the team on Wednesday evening. The versatile
OGC Nice of France player had previously trained separately while he
recuperated from injury.

Another player who
also trained with the rest of the team on Wednesday was Israel based
goalkeeper Dele Aiyenugba who joined up with the rest of the Super
Eagles squad in Wattens, Austria moments before the commencement of
Tuesday night’s international friendly against the Saudis.

Meanwhile,
arrangements for Sunday’s international friendly against Colombia have
been concluded. The game will now come up at the Milton Keynes Stadium
with Olajire confirming that the match will suffer no further shift in
venue.

The game was recently moved from Boleyn Ground to Kenilworth Road,
home ground of Luton Town FC, after the match organizers failed to
reach an agreement with West Ham United, the owners of Boleyn Ground.
But no sooner had the NFF announced the new venue before it was changed
once again, and Olajire disclosed that both the NFF and its Colombian
counterpart have jointly decided to report the match agent, Pro-Global
Sports to FIFA for behaving irresponsibly.