Ex Super Eagles player, Tijani Babangida l0st one-year-old son, wife ‘loses eye’ in car cra§h

Tijjani Babangida, one of the ex Super Eagles player, has lost Fadil, his one-year-old son, in a car cra§h involving his family along the Kaduna-Zaria highway.

According to reports gathered, Babangida was travelling with his family — Maryam, his wife, their son, and Ibrahim, his brother — and his maid when the car acc+dent occurred last Thursday.

Ibrahim was said to have di3d on the spot while the other occupants in the vehicle were rushed to the nearest hospital.

But in a recent update, Harrison Jalla, chairman of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN) Task Force, revealed that Babangida’s son also di3d due to inj¥ry sustained in the acc+dent. “Yes he eventually lost the son, a one-year-old boy,” Jalla told newsmen on Sunday evening.

Babangida’s wife is also said to have lost an eye due to the severe inj¥ry to her face. She is said to be receiving treatment at the intensive care unit of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria. It is also reported that their maid suffered a fracture in her leg.

The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) on Sunday paid a courtesy visit to Babangida at the hospital. The delegation consoled the former Eagles player over the d£aths of his brother and son.

They also prayed for a quick recovery for Babangida and his wife, “who has undergone a successful facial surgery”.

Babangida is the president of PFAN and was a member of the Nigeria U-23 team that won the gold medal in football at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

He had a decade with the Nigerian Super Eagles, where he became famous for his speed down the wings.

Babangida was also a member of the Eagles squad at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON. [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>