The answer is not straightforward because there isn't any outstanding player who dominated individually, clubwise and nationally. Mikel won for club and country but was never voted African best player. Kanu won for club and also African best player twice but never won the nations cup. Okocha won the nations cup but won nothing for club or individually. Yekini was an outstanding goalscorer but never played for any top club. In Cameroon Etoo has no comparison because he won everything.

ElasticStone:


In terms of talent, who would you rate higest? Messi or Ronaldo?

Messi is more talented. No denials

But Ronaldo triumps over him in greatness at least for now

gibzzhd:

which trophy?
kanu has more

don't forget that KANU did not win Afcon but, Mikel won it

Kanu wins my vote and believe me if placed for a vote, he would win it against Obi

Astark:
overrated doesn't mean they aren't good but their fans constantly comparing them to someone greater is what I mean by overrated.

If you ask an average Nigerian who is better between kanu and okocha most of them will mention okocho even though he never won anything personally significant and he is only known for his dribbles.

You didn't have to bring Messi to this, the reason I called maradona overrated is because his fans think of him as s God while in fact he's a fraud.

He played 490 official club games during his 21-year professional career, scoring 259 goals; for Argentina he played 91 games and scored 34 goals.

He won a world cup by cheating and if they were var during his era he would have been called a fraud and laughed out

Alaiye ,go sidon joor, na Maradona kinsman be referee bah, messi never scored undeserved goal in his career ? dont ever call Maradona a fraud in football, if not social media that overhyped players this days, you cant call cr7 or messi a legend cus they never had wc winning medal, which is the biggest tournament in the sport, I see people like you calling them great, those times players like zidane never scored much goals, same with figo and rivaldo , they were world best, that's why you rarely see very good midfielders this days , everything na goal, football is no more entertaining like those times

AkpaMgbor:

In terms of achievement both club and country nobody even comes close to Mikel...that's fact and stats.

Na only afcon Mikel win wey Kanu no win o

EPL
UEFA cup
UCL
Eredivisie
Olympic
Africa best player

Homers123:
nigggar, go for proper mental evaluation.

People like him call cr7 n messi goat

Jokerman:


Lol... Maradona a fraud??

Someone that raised a dead Napoli?

Someone that won world cup golden ball??

Someone who wasn't a forward and still scored that amount of goals??

The guy is a joke, messi ass lickers

Jokerman:


Messi is more talented. No denials

But Ronaldo triumps over him in greatness at least for now

Well, you seem to be a sincere person...even though I disagree with your last statement though

Jokerman:
Acheivements wise,in terms of what we won

1. Nwankwo Kanu (won Africa best player twice)

2. Mikel Obi

3. Emmanuel Amuneke

In terms of talents

1. Jay Jay okocha

2. Nwankwo Kanu

3. Rashidi Yekini

Yekini more talented than Amuneke?
Are you OK?

m140:

Alaiye ,go sidon joor, na Maradona kinsman be referee bah, messi never scored undeserved goal in his career ? dont ever call Maradona a fraud in football, if not social media that overhyped players this days, you cant call cr7 or messi a legend cus they never had wc winning medal, which is the biggest tournament in the sport, I see people like you calling them great, those times players like zidane never scored much goals, same with figo and rivaldo , they were world best, that's why you rarely see very good midfielders this days , everything na goal, football is no more entertaining like those times

Football sucks nowadays....
No creativity, no exceptional skills, no jaw dropping goals, no passion, no drive, no loyalty, no ambition....
It's all about the money...
Everything now na pass, shoot n score...
No wonder the likes of Messi n CR7 can dominate the game for over 12 yrs now, and no one looks close to challenge them....
I see that PSG boy mbappe n I wonder...what's the hype....

Mourinho destroyed football...
He was the one who introduced negative football, all in the name of trophy...
Alex Ferguson contributed his own by winning matches with significant help from the '12th player'....
Arab boys and their money miss road attitude was the final nail on the coffin....
Now see the aftermath...
Wenger warned us...but we wouldn't listen...
It's not about the trophy, but beauty of the game...

Recently, I watched the review of 49 games unbeaten of 'the invisible' and I ponder if the game is not retrogressing....

Kanu is the most successful Nigerian player so far
Okocha is the most gifted but grossly under achieved...
Stephen Keshi was the influential all round...
Rashedi Yekini was one of the most successful and influential...
Vincent Enyeama is Nigeria's most consistent, most successful and longest goalkeeper of all time, one of the most influential players too...
Mikel Obi is one the decorated/successful alone Kanu Nwankwo but underperformed at National team...

Notable mention.
Sunday Oliseh
Peter Rufai
Mudal Lawal
Thompson Usiyen
Etin Etim should have competed with Okocha if he wasn't wasted by misfortune or bad luck. He as talented as Okocha but more purposeful than Okocha even from U20...

What about victor ikpeba?

contradictory article.

in one line you said kanu was born in owerri , another line the enugu born striker.

pls edit your post.



kanu

keshi

rashidi


as far as african football is concerned , after samuel eto'o who is the all time african best. papilo is second in command.

Astark:
overrated doesn't mean they aren't good but their fans constantly comparing them to someone greater is what I mean by overrated.

If you ask an average Nigerian who is better between kanu and okocha most of them will mention okocho even though he never won anything personally significant and he is only known for his dribbles.

You didn't have to bring Messi to this, the reason I called maradona overrated is because his fans think of him as s God while in fact he's a fraud.

He played 490 official club games during his 21-year professional career, scoring 259 goals; for Argentina he played 91 games and scored 34 goals.

He won a world cup by cheating and if they were var during his era he would have been called a fraud and laughed out

Why are people arguing with this one,with the way you analyse football,you are a kid,I do not think you are up to 20...quote me if I am wrong

There's this World Club Championship then called International club competition. Kanu won it but Obi never won it

Jokerman:


Na only afcon Mikel win wey Kanu no win o

EPL
UEFA cup
UCL
Eredivisie
Olympic
Africa best player

all these chelsea fans shouting mikel obi , is obvious you started watching football in 2012.

Kanu is the best : he won laurels, Africa best twice and played very long international and club side.

Okocha was very good entertainer.
Kanu had luck all around him. In the latter time of his career, he would be put in match at die mins and wonders usually happens.

Jay Jay is our all-time best footballer.

ElasticStone:


Well, you seem to be a sincere person...even though I disagree with your last statement though

Until Messi wins something for his country, he can't be termed the greatest

You got my mind...they should go online, how many times did Mikel rep Nigeria? Talk of humanitarian attributes, Kanu is 1.

Okocha didn't have luck for some big recognition, he rather entertained as a player less as a team.

Rashid did not do much outside Africa, Keshi reigned as a good leader but never as much as Kanu on club side...

For winning Kanu, for laugh, Jay jay

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
all these chelsea fans shouting mikel obi , is obvious you started watching football in 2012.

SIRTee15:


Football sucks nowadays....
No creativity, no exceptional skills, no jaw dropping goals, no passion, no drive, no loyalty, no ambition....
It's all about the money...
Everything now na pass, shoot n score...
No wonder the likes of Messi n CR7 can dominate the game for over 12 yrs now, and no one looks close to challenge them....
I see that PSG boy mbappe n I wonder...what's the hype....

Mourinho destroyed football...
He was the one who introduced negative football, all in the name of trophy...
Alex Ferguson contributed his own by winning matches with significant help from the '12th player'....
Arab boys and their money miss road attitude was the final nail on the coffin....
Now see the aftermath...
Wenger warned us...but we wouldn't listen...
It's not about the trophy, but beauty of the game...

Recently, I watched the review of 49 games unbeaten of 'the invisible' and I ponder if the game is not retrogressing....

Hahahaha... How the hell did Mourinho destroy football? And what's negative football? Remember Mourinho was coaching as at 2004, and football technicality was still high (zidane, Figo, delima, dinho, okocha, Deco, rui Costa, veron, riquelme were still playing o, etc)

How did referee help Fergie?? Fergie had great technical players na... (Scholes, cantona, Yorke, Cole, veron, Nistelrooy etc)

You must be an arsenal fan ... When you were buying diaby, djourou, chiamaka , bendtner etc nkó

SIRTee15:


Football sucks nowadays....
No creativity, no exceptional skills, no jaw dropping goals, no passion, no drive, no loyalty, no ambition....
It's all about the money...
Everything now na pass, shoot n score...
No wonder the likes of Messi n CR7 can dominate the game for over 12 yrs now, and no one looks close to challenge them....
I see that PSG boy mbappe n I wonder...what's the hype....

Mourinho destroyed football...
He was the one who introduced negative football, all in the name of trophy...
Alex Ferguson contributed his own by winning matches with significant help from the '12th player'....
Arab boys and their money miss road attitude was the final nail on the coffin....
Now see the aftermath...
Wenger warned us...but we wouldn't listen...
It's not about the trophy, but beauty of the game...

Recently, I watched the review of 49 games unbeaten of 'the invisible' and I ponder if the game is not retrogressing....

Beauty of the game is gone, that's why national teams tournament no dey hot again, na club side, even WC no dey sweet again, cus they earn little compare to club side,,,, if messi n cr7 played in the 90's they wont win one ballondior

ValCon888:
Raahidi Yekini
Most Ballon D'Or winners are strikers because goals win games. And Rashidi Yekini remains the greatest striker Nigeria has ever had.
If you want to argue, argue with yourself.

u wronged sir. It is the time of Messi and cr7 that FIFA are using goals because all today's players are average. Very average set of players. Unlike those days that people are fighting to win balon dor

Austineva:
[s][/s]don't forget that KANU did not win Afcon but, Mikel won it[s][/s]

What did mikel do in afcon 2013?
Nothing spectacular about mikel outing in S.A 2013.
After all olivier giroud also won world cup practically doing nothing.


Sunday mba scored the winning goal.
Victor moses sent nigeria to the final


Mikel's best highlight and career recognition was in the 2005 fifa under-20 championship hosted by holland.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:





What did mikel do in afcon 2013?
Nothing spectacular about mikel outing in S.A 2013.
After all olivier giroud also won world cup practically doing nothing.


Sunday mba scored the winning goal.
Victor moses sent nigeria to the final


Mikel's best highlight and career recognition was in the 2005 fifa under-20 championship hosted by holland.

that's ur own view, but for me, Mikel remains my greatest Nigerian player ahead of KANU and Jay Jay Okocha

robosky02:
This question has been on the lips of so many Nigeria's

We therefore present some notable Star's for you to decide

You can tell us your own ......

1John Obi Mikel (born 22 April 1987) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

Mikel began his career with local club Plateau United, before joining Norwegian club Lyn at the age of 17 in 2004. In 2006, he made a controversial transfer to English club Chelsea after Manchester United claimed they had already signed him. He stayed with Chelsea for 11 years, before moving to China with Tianjin TEDA in 2017. After two years in China, he returned to England on a short-term deal with Middlesbrough, before joining Trabzonspor on a free transfer in July 2019. In a 14-year international career between 2005 and 2019, he played 88 times for Nigeria, scoring six goals.

Honours:

Chelsea: premier League: 2009–10, 2014–15
FA Cup: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2011–12
Football League Cup: 2006–07
FA Community Shield: 2009
UEFA Champions League: 2011–12
UEFA Europa League: 2012–13
Nigeria

Africa Cup of Nations: 2013
Nigeria Olympic

Summer Olympics bronze medalist: 2016
Individual

FIFA World Youth Championship Silver Ball: 2005
CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year: 2005
Chelsea Young Player of the Year: 2007, 2008

Source robosky02


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Obi_Mikel

Taah whose Mikel? It's Jay Jay okocha and Rashidi yekini and kanu nwankwo people that gave us laurels and fame.

AkpaMgbor:

In terms of achievement both club and country nobody even comes close to Mikel...that's fact and stats.

You're deluded Chelsea fans..you don't know anything.
You never watch kanu nwankwo play football.
The only trophy kanu nwankwo did not have is the Africa Nations cup and the world cup. Every other competition he played in,he has won them. From Netherlands to Italy and England.
Mikel is never close to kanu nwankwo,get your fact right.
Open the link to read more
https://www.transfermarkt.com/nwankwo-kanu/erfolge/spieler/3133

Striker that has 13 goals in 86 app.

theowane:
What was the modification is I may ask please? Makalele was a deep holding midfielder, who was always shy of going toward, he scored very few goal (I'm not sure it's even up to 5), same with Mikel. Mikel was also a holding midfielder (in Chelsea), who was also shy of going toward and scored very few goals. So what is the modification that Mikel did?
Now talking of Kanu been an attacker that was replaced easily, I don't understand?? Do You know the quality of attacking players Nigeria had during that active footballing days of Kanu? Yekini, Siasia, Akpoborie, Amokachi, Ahagowa, Martin's, Ikpeba. You think all these guys were moi moi abi? Let me be frank with you; Mikel never really had competition in the national team not becos he was too exceptional, but because during his peak, Nigerians didn't really have exceptional midfielders. Na Lukeman Haruna abi na Sunday Mba or Agu or onazi wan step up? Nigerian footballers were average when he came in so he had to shine.
Now that's in terms of quality. In terms of achievements, please look at the trophy statistics again before you talk. Kanu has more trophies than Mikel. The only thing he won that Kanu didn't win is Afcon. But Kanu has won every other thing Mikel has won, plus winning African best not once o, but twice. Just look at the stats again my brother.

Don't mind them. The just wake up and start watching Chelsea and think they know football.
Kanu is far the best ever Nigerian footballer in every aspect you want to take your argument to.

m140:

Beauty of the game is gone, that's why national teams tournament no dey hot again, na club side, even WC no dey sweet again, cus they earn little compare to club side,,,, if messi n cr7 played in the 90's they wont win one ballondior

World cup fanaticism is dead...
It's now just an avenue for FIFA to make money...
Good thing an African country will soon win it....

Messi n cr7 would definitely win ballondior if they played in the 90s or 00s...
But not this one they just rotating it btw cr7 or messi