In the year 1997 Nigerian football legend and founder of the Kanu Heart Foundation, KHF, Nwankwo Kanu has a corrective heart surgery at Cleveland Hospital Ohio, USA, everyone was happy thinking that was the last surgery and he was fully recovered but recently the footballer underwent a corrective heart surgery at the same hospital again for the second time.

The surgery was carried out during one of his normal yearly routine medical checks at the hospital, the Co-ordinator of the Kanu Heart Foundation, Pastor Onyebuchi Abia confirmed the success of the surgery adding that the former Super Eagles captain has since left the intensive care unit, ICU, of the hospital and is recuperating in the hospital

"He'll be back home in a few days time. I spoke with him Sunday afternoon and he confirmed he's in a stable condition.'', Abia said in a statement.

His younger brother Ogbonna Kanu confirmed to me that the surgery did take place and Kanu is recovering well.

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