The Former Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, is dead

 A tweet on the Nigeria Football Federation’s

handle, @thenff, says the legend died in the early

hours of Wednesday.

According to News Agency of Nigeria, the

Chairman, Edo State Football Association, Frank

Ilaboya, confirmed on Wednesday that the

remains of former Super Eagle’s coach, Stephen

Keshi, had been deposited in a mortuary in Benin.

The privately-owned mortuary, Faith Mediplex, is

located on the Benin Airport road, in the Edo State

capital.

Ilaboya, quoted Keshi’s faimly member, Ricky

Aburimen, as saying the Eagles’ former coach only

complained of a leg ailment while holidaying at his

Airport road home in Benin before he passed

away.

He said Keshi had died on the way to the hospital

at about 3am.

A statement released by his brother and aide,

Emmanuel Ado, read in part, “with thanksgiving to

God, the Ogbuenyi Fredrick Keshi family of Illah in

Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta

State, announces the death of Mr. Stephen

Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi”.

“Our son, brother, father, father-in-law, brother-

in-law, has gone to be with his wife of 33 years

(Nkem), Mrs. Kate Keshi, who passed away on the

9th December 2015.

“Since her death, Keshi has been in mourning. He

came back to Nigeria to be with her. He had

planned to fly back today (Wednesday), before he

suffered a cardiac arrest. He has found rest.”

Keshi has coached the national teams of Togo and

Mali, qualifying the former to the 2006 FIFA World

Cup.

In his last job with Nigeria, he won the 2013 Africa

Cup of Nations and reached the Round of 16 at the

2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

The ex- international lost his wife, Nkem Kate

Keshi only last December. They had been married

for 33 years. She died after a prolonged battle

with cancer.

Keshi is survived by four children and his mother.