Adamu made this remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
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Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the increase would give room for more countries to have the experience of what the competition was all about.
NAN reports that four of the England-based Super Eagles players — Mikel Obi of Chelsea, Ahmed Musa of Leicester City, Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City and Alex Iwobi of Arsenal football clubs were nominated
“I’m so proud of them because irrespective of the drama surrounding their stay in Rio, they kept together
Pinnick and Giwa are both laying claim to the presidency of the NFF
This was the prediction of a former Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu, on Thursday
The NFF said Odegbami should stop his campaign of calumny against it and prominent Nigerian football figures and face up to the reality that he undid him own campaign for a slot at the FIFA presidency
I deliberately choose to look on the brighter side of that adventure, the side that celebrates the “audacity of faith’, that leaves the legacy of self belief in the capacity of our youths to dream big and be anything they choose to be by simply ‘daring’
Adamu told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday that FIFA lacked the basis for commencing another investigation against him after his three-year ban
The 62-year-old was a member of Fifa’s executive committee for four years until 2010, when he was banned from all football activity for three years
The former Director General of the National Sports Commission noted that Kalu is eminently qualified to vie for FIFA presidency, adding that anyone who thinks in the contrary is only wasting his time
Adamu who is also a former president of the West Africa Football Union, said all through his stay in FIFA, he never asked for cash in return for his vote the way the FIFA boss and his other top placed executives had done for years as exposed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe and Chuck Blazer’s confessional statements
“The qualifying series for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations are barely six weeks away, yet the national team has not taken any definite shape,” remarked Adamu
Adamu said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the national team’s 1-0 defeat by Sudan was a direct consequence of over-pampering of the players
But contrary to expectations, Dr. Adamu has declared that he is not in hurry to return to football administration in CAF, FIFA and WAFU
Documents passed to Fifa by The Sunday Times show the Qatar bid team offered the cash to Samson Adamu, 26, the son of Amos Adamu, the Fifa executive committee (exco) member. The money was to fund a dinner and workshop on the eve of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, though it cost only a fraction of the sum offered