Knee jerk reaction last night. Put in the yak for demba ba then saw this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16379305.stm

Anyone know if yakubu will be playing in the African cup of nations as that would be most frustrating? It looks as though he's only going to play in the qualifiers after the tournament has finished :S

Nigeria didn't qualify mate.

I remember doing this once before in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Africa_Cup_of_Nations

On 30 June, after Nigeria's exit from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan punished the team for a poor campaign by imposing a two-year ban from international competition.[6] This would have resulted in the Nigerians missing out on both the 2012 qualifying phase and the 2012 African Cup of Nations. However, on 5 July, the Nigerian government dropped the ban after FIFA threatened to impose harsher international sanctions as a result of the government interference.[7] Nigeria competed in qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations as scheduled.

They competed in qualifications but did not get through.