Nigeria striker and 2013 AFCON winner Brown Ideye has joined nine-time Nigerian champions Enyimba until the end of the 2024/25 season.
Ifeanyi Ekwueme, the Aba Giants’ sporting director and an ex-international, verified this to our correspondent on Tuesday.
“Yes, the talks have been going on for a while, and we completed it yesterday,” Ekwueme said.
“He will be with us until the end of the season, and we believe he will bolster our team’s attack as we compete in the league and the continent.”
Ideye, 36, has been without a club since departing Kuwaiti side Al Yarmouk in 2022, but he is now ready to launch a return to Nigeria’s top flight, taking after former international teammates Ahmed Musa and Abdullahi Shehu, who are presently playing for Kano Pillars.
The move will also bring Ideye back to the domestic scene, 17 years after leaving Ocean Boys in 2006.
Ideye was set to join former league champions Rivers United in October, but the deal fell through.
Enyimba has two matches essential to their local and continental goals in the next five days when they play Sunshine Stars on Wednesday in a delayed NPFL encounter before heading to Maputo, Mozambique, for their third group game in the CAF Confederation Cup against Black Bulls.
