Unless urgent steps are taken, one of Nigeria’s consistent strikers, Gbolahan Salami may not travel to Dar es Salam with the rest of the Super Eagles for the all-important 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Taifa Stars of Tanzania. Salami’s plans of featuring in the match which comes up next month may hit the rocks if nothing is done immediately to get his international passport out of the Norweigian embassy.

Sources at the Super Eagles camp have informed that Salami submitted his passport at the Norweigian embassy after his agent reportedly got him a deal with a club in their top flight league with the hope that every thing will be tidied up within this August transfer window. However, the 3 weeks stipulated for the visa to be ready has lapsed with no word from the embassy that the visa is ready and this, apart from frustrating the player, is now threatening to knock him out of the Super Eagles squad for the international matches in September.

Already the profile of Gbolahan Salami is rising and he has also won over the new Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh with his quality and excellent attitude in training so far. It is expected that he will make the cut for the Tanzania match as well as the international friendly against Niger Republic in Port Harcourt.

This is therefore an appeal to the relevant authorities to help him get his passport out of the Norweigian embassy before the end of this week so that he can be part of the crucial games ahead of the Super Eagles. Remember Gbolahan Salami scored Nigeria’s first goal of the 2017 AFCON qualifying campaign against Chad in Kaduna last June.