This follows a formal notification given FIFA by the NFF about details and true situation of the latest leadership tussle in the Nigerian soccer governing body.
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Billed for the Hotel Le Meridien (Ogeyi Place) in the Garden City, the event will present an opportunity for administrators, partners and sponsors of the NFF, football enthusiasts, fans, media representatives and other stakeholders to meet and bond with the players of the Super Eagles before the squad flies out to the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The 2nd Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Shehu Dikko, at the weekend said Dalung actually swung the game Nigeria’s way hours before kick-off when he approved that the players be paid the full bonus for the drawn opening match against Rwanda if they earned the maximum points against 2014 champions Libya.
The NFF 2nd Vice President/Chairman of Strategic Studies Committee, Shehu Dikko, announced this in Lagos on Wednesday.
To this end, a two-day intensive workshop on how best to improve the fortunes of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup will hold at the African football ruling body’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on Monday and Tuesday this week.
The NFF 2nd Vice President/LMC Chairman Shehu Dikko, who is also Chairman of Marketing, Sponsorship and Television Advisory Committee, disclosed that the short code would be available for use by all NFF partners, sponsors and suppliers in the process also revealing an Official Supporter programme into which corporate concerns not presently in relationship with the NFF can lodge to be part of Nigeria’s 2018 FIFA World Cup excitement train.
Dikko said: “A final site would be selected out of the two after inspection and approval by the technical crew led by Coach Gernot Rohr.
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick; Vice Presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko; General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi; and Technical and Development Committee Chairman, Yusuf Ahmed Fresh, represented the NFF, while Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr; Chief Coach Salisu Yusuf; Team Administrator Enebi Achor; and Captain Mikel John Obi, Ahmed Musa, Kenneth Omeruo and William Ekong stood in for the team.
Dikko’s appointment made him the third Nigerian to be appointed into a FIFA Committee this year.
The LMC Chairman, Shehu Dikko, who was at the finals on Sunday, said he was impressed by the fight in the players that saw them come from the brink of ouster at the group stage to reach the finals.
The NFF and Aiteo Group signed a landmark five-year partnership agreement five weeks ago, which made the energy solutions company Optimum Partner of the NFF
The meeting was held on Monday
Speaking after the closing ceremonies for the tournament won by Abubakar Bukola Saraki FC, Harry Iwuala, Head of Special Project at the League Management Company, remarked that participating clubs were enjoined not to see the tournament as a competition, but an activity to implement some of the lessons learnt during the tour of Spain at the instance of La Liga last year
Dikko was clarifying the misconception contained in a letter to him by the President of the Nigeria Referees Association, Tade Azeez, which suggested that the LMC neglected to order compensation for the Match Officials assaulted at the Sani Abacha Stadium by some misguided fans after the Match Day 18 fixture between Kano Pillars and Akwa United
The ruling was based on another by a High Court in Jos
Shehu Dikko, the Chairman of the LMC, who made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, said the LMC was working hard to meet the target date
Dikko also challenged indigenous coaches to always support one another, especially when any of them is appointed into the national teams, as he performed the closing ceremony of the latest CAF B-Licence Coaching Course organized by the NFF
According to family sources, Dikko died on Monday morning in Zaria, Kaduna State after some early morning discomfort that saw him visit his Doctor and later passed on in the clinic
The partnership will see the LMC offer FIRS the Nigeria Professional Football League platform to engage the public through message displays on match day perimeter boards, distribution of messages on fliers and use of public address systems at match venues to relay tax education messages
The match, at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, was played before the usual large crowd of spectators, but this did not deter the visiting side from disrupting the game