A onetime manager of Nigeria's national team, Peter Osugo, aka PECOS, who renamed the Nigeria national male football team from Red Devils to Green Eagles, is dead.

He managed the national team and the Stationery Stores during its successful years. 

He also worked as a journalist and rose to become an editor.

He was from the Umu-Obi Osugo Royal family of Ase Community in the Ndokwa East Local Government Area of present-day Delta State.

A statement signed by Leo Osugo on behalf of the family announced on Thursday that Osugo (PECOS) died on January 24, 2022.

He was 92 years old.