According to a tweet by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), via its Twitter handle, @thenff, the former Nigeria captain became dizzy and weak after lunch and so had to be flown overseas on Thursday through the Port Harcourt Airport.

“After five great years, I am happy to announce that I have put a full stop to my national team career for the sake of national peace“, part of the striker’s statement read on Instagram.

“Rather than going on social media to announce your retirement, to us it was quite disrespectful to the Football Federation and family in Nigeria”.

“It’s a figment of someone’s imagination because it did not come from me”, he said.

“The NFF has yet to receive any official notification of retirement from Emenike”.

However, NFF spokesperson Ademola Olajire yesterday reportedly revealed that Emenike had not communicated with the country’s football governing body.

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has been flown to Belgium for treatment after his health deteriorated on Thursday. If he did that without going to social media it would have been more appropriate and respectful.

Amaju continued, ” You have contributed immensely, you were the highest goal scorer at the AFCON we won.

“It was a big shocker for us and a big shocker for me personally”.

“But we have very competent coaches to carry on and deliver for Nigeria”.