By Our Man in Lafia
LATE drama erupted in the NPFL as nine-time kings Enyimba clawed back to snatch a point from the jaws of defeat against high-flying Nasarawa United.
In a clash that had more heat than a London summer, the Solid Miners thought they had the gold in the bag when Jofrank Istifanus rifled home a stunner in the 69th minute.
The Lafia Township Stadium went into absolute meltdown as Istifanus—the man with the golden touch—continued his red-hot scoring streak.
But you can’t keep a good Elephant down.
Just four minutes later, the referee pointed to the spot after a clumsy challenge in the box, and the stadium went from a carnival to a library. Up stepped Kalu Nweke, the coolest man in Nigeria.
With the weight of the Enyimba faithful on his shoulders, Nweke stared down the keeper and buried his penalty with the clinical precision of a Premier League assassin.
Nasarawa pushed for a winner, desperate to close the gap on league leaders Rivers United, but Enyimba’s backline held firm like a bank vault.
The result leaves the title race on a knife-edge, with the Solid Miners left to rue what might have been.
For Enyimba, it was a masterclass in resilience. They came, they saw, and they refused to be beaten.
