Yakubu Aiyegbeni is confident his scoring drought for Nigeria won't continue into the new season with Everton.

The striker said: "I know my fans are worried about the goal drought from my boots, but I want to assure them that it happens like that occasionally and that I would soon get over it and start scoring again.

"It is not as if I am not playing at my best, it is just that the goals have refused to come.

"I am working hard to hit goalscoring form again, who knows I might open my goals account under coach Shaibu Amodu this weekend against Equatorial Guinea."