After a few years in the academy, Ibanga, who also played for the British Council, one of the biggest grass root teams in Lagos at the time, was one of the three players from KFA invited to play for the country’s U-17 team.

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In Lagos, as he played among hundred other boys, who had come to make a life for themselves, Ibanga said he remembered his mother’s last words before he left home.

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