President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji
Ibrahim Musa Gusau (MON) has praised the contractors working on the NFF-FIFA
Players’ hostel and new training pitches for the pace of work on the project,
which groundbreaking ceremony was done on 18th March this year.
On an inspection of the site, which is located
opposite the NFF Secretariat inside the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on
Thursday, Gusau, in company with some members of NFF Management, was conducted
round the various sections of the project by the lead architect, Architect
Gambo Ahmadu.
After the inspection, Gusau expressed satisfaction
with the pace of work at the site and expressed confidence that the contractors
will be able to deliver on the 24-month mandate given for the completion of the
work.
“I am happy with the pace of the work, the seriousness
shown so far by the contractors, and the quality of the work as seen so far.
They have a 24-month mandate to deliver, and at the pace they are going, they
should be able to complete the Players’ Hostel and the Training Pitches on or
before that timeline.
“I am also impressed with the quality of work. For the
present NFF administration, it is a legacy project and it is very close to our
hearts. I am also happy that the project is located close to the office where
members of the NFF Executive Committee (whenever any of them are in Abuja),
myself and the NFF Management and Staff can easily monitor what is being done.”
The inspection took Gusau and his team to the site of
the new training pitches, the old training pitch which is also to undergo
extensive renovation, and the two-story Players’ Hostel, which will have
several office and conference facilities on the ground floor, while the first
and second floors will contain the rooms for the players and officials.
“We need the report of what has been done so far,
alongside photographs, for us to send to FIFA so that they know how far the
project has gone,” Gusau told Architect Ahmadu.
It will be recalled that at only the second meeting of
the present NFF Executive Committee, Gusau tabled the proposal for this legacy
project to his colleagues, and it was unanimously endorsed that the NFF’s
residual funds from the FIFA 2.0 and the proposed funds from then incipient
FIFA 3.0 be utilized for the construction of a befitting hostel accommodation
for the National Teams, and the construction of two Football Pitches (one
natural turf and one synthetic turf) for use by the teams at the Goal Project
section of the Package B of MKO Abiola National Stadium.
With Gusau at the inspection were NFF’s Director of
Communications, Dr Ademola Olajire; Deputy Director of Competitions, Dr Ayo
Abdulrahaman; AD Protocol, Emmanuel Ayanbunmi and’ SA to President, Abubakar
Danladi Umar.
PHOTO: Gusau, with Architect Ahmadu
(second right), Olajire (third right), Abdulrahaman (third left) and Ayanbunmi
(left)
WAFU-B U17 Boys Tourney: Golden
Eaglets continue preparations in Abuja
Nigeria’s U17 Boys, Golden Eaglets, have continued
intensive preparations for next month’s WAFU-B U17 Boys Tournament, with the
technical crew led by Coach Manu Garba working assiduously to produce a team
capable of doing the country proud.
On Wednesday, the
five-time world champions were ruthless in a 5-0 demolition of Winsome
FC in a friendly game played at the FIFA Goal Project, MKO Abiola National Stadium.
The Eaglets
were two goals better going into the break and the team got more clinical in the
second half, scoring three more goals to end the game 5-0. Winsome
FC is from
Oporoza Island, Warri South West, Delta State.
It was the fourth
friendly game by the Eaglets, who are in camp preparing
for the WAFU-B U17 Boys Tournament taking place next month.
In earlier games,
they had beaten Espora Football Academy of Abuja 4-0, pipped GASA of Ilorin by
a lone goal and came from behind to defeat Bandex Football Academy of Kebbi
3-2.
PHOTO: The
Eaglets after their defeat of Winsome FC on Wednesday.
PHOTO NEWS:
The Samuel Okwaraji Foundation and the
family of late Samuel Okwaraji have concluded plans for the organization of
Samuel Okwaraji Secondary Schools Football Championship, in honour and memory
of the international midfielder who collapsed and died on the turf of the
National Stadium, Lagos during a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Angola
on 12th August 1989.
On a visit to the NFF Secretariat on
Thursday, Secretary of the Foundation, Achonwa Chidozie, on behalf of the
Chairman, Senator Osita Izunaso, presented the competition’s T-Shirt to NFF
President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau (MON). Photo shows Gusau (right) with
Chidozie (middle) and another member of the Foundation.
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