TRAGEDY: Former Super Eagles Coach, Shuaibu Amodu, is dead

Late Shuaibu Amodu

The technical director of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), and former coach of the Super Eagles, Shuaibu Amodu, has died, the NFF announced early Saturday.

Coming barely a week after the death of Stephen Keshi.

Mr. Amodu, a four-time coach of the national team, passed on on Friday night shortly after complaining of chest pain, the NFF said in a post on its Twitter handle. He was 58.

Amodu and Keshi were close friends and they worked as head coach and assistant coach of the Super Eagles to the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations where they finished third.

Amodu has managed a number of club sides in Nigeria, such as BCC Lions, El kanji Warriors, Shooting Stars; and he also managed the South African team, Orlando Pirates. 

He first managed Super Eagles  from April 2001 to February 2002.Amodu later stated that his dismissal was "unfair",and also said that, a month later, he had yet to receive a formal letter confirming his dismissal.
He was re-appointed manager in April 2008. In December 2009 the NFA stated that Amodu was under pressure, and in January 2010 there was speculation about his future. He was sacked in February 2010.
Amodu was appointed technical director of Nigeria's national teams in May 2013.
He was re-appointed Nigeria manager in October 2014, replacing Stephen Keshi. It was his fifth spell in charge of the country.Keshi returned to the role two weeks later but was fired in July 2015 and Amodu took over the Eagles again temporarily. He was replaced by flop Sunday Oliseh on a permanent basis later that month.