The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Dadi-Mamud, a sports administrator and teacher at NISports, showed no sign of sickness prior to the announcement of his untimely death.
Browsing: Solomon Dalong
Sunday Jika, the Officer-in-Charge of Gombe State Marshal, a local security outfit, who was amongst the minister’s motorcade, confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday in Gombe.
Dalung’s action followed reports that players of the U-23 National team were ejected from their hotels in the USA following shortage of funds.
The minister said it was necessary that the Federal Government dissociated itself from the trip going by the human trafficking activities of some desperate Nigerians
Stressing that the N2 billion would augment the N500 million earlier set aside by the Federal Government for the Games, he said: “We have applied for additional funding for Rio because the N500 million voted for it will be insufficient; we have applied based on the needs we have
Speaking with select Sports Editors in Lagos on Thursday, Dalung said he got to know this after Nigeria’s exit from the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations coming up next year
Dalung said: “The decision to fix matches is the direct responsibility of the NFF not on the rectangular size of my table. I can tell you that they have already had problem with the Kaduna venue because the coach wants Port Harcourt, while the federation was insisting on Kaduna
He said: “The turf of the football pitch here appears to be in bad shape and there is evidence that it was in good shape before, but along the line, something happened
Okang also assured Dalung that facilities for a successful sports festival were being put in place while the old ones were being upgraded.
“In the light of the above, the leaders of the two warring groups are hereby advised to refrain from acts capable of jeopardizing the peace process. They should therefore maintain calm while the issue is being resolved. All should note that any act contrary to my appeal will continue to tarnish the image and Integrity of the country and further scare would-be investors from our sports.”
Dalung said violence and forceful occupation of the Glass House will amount to a break down of law and order, which will not solve the 14-month-old crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation
He also disclosed that the decision is influenced by exemplary lives of great African crusaders for social justice and people’s emancipation like Thomas Sankara, Tai Solarin and Wole Soyinka
Dalong, who was responding to rumours that the National Sports Festival has been postponed and the hosting right revoke from Cross River State, charged the directors to be disciplined in sports administration
Dalong threw the challenge to the youths at the opening session of a two-day National Conference on Youths Against Corruption organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission
He commended the vision of the organizers for the initiative to recognize talents, contributions, skills and performances of the distinguished sportsmen and women through the award
He equally demanded for actual time that some staff received official files and the time they took action on them.
Dalong also inspected the Ministry’s facilities and the open Registry
Dalong explained that he was among the Federal Government delegation to the 2002 Africa Nations Cup where they were promised $7000, only for the football federation to pay them only $400, shortchanging him and others by $6,600
The spokesman for the award and the Executive Director of Unmissable Incentives Limited, Kayode Idowu, disclosed this immediately after the final meeting of the panel held on Tuesday in Lagos
“The next one is you must also have love for the next human being around you because his presence around you is not by accident, it is divine
He was Personal Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar, when former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, appointed Lar as Adviser Emeritus