The former secretary lamented that Nigeria currently lacked extraordinary up-and-coming talents that could emulate the astounding roles that were played by the two ex-internationals.
Browsing: Taiwo Ogunjobi
He said: “I believe every concerned football enthusiast is beginning to see that the grassroots remain the only credible source that can produce long-serving quality players.
Ogunjobi, who is the Pillar of Sports in the state, the Chairman Osun State Football Association and the immediate past Chairman of Osun United Football Club, collected his letter of appointment from the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti
The new coach was presented to newsmen by Gboyega Oyetola, the Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, in company of the club Chairman, Taiwo Ogunjobi, in Osogbo on Tuesday
The appointment is with immediate effect
The government said in a statement that the renaming was to give the club a state identity
Abdullahi and his co-accused persons – Amanze Uchegbulam, a former NFF first vice president; Taiwo Ogunjobi and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, former NFF secretary-generals, are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on conspiracy and breach of due process
The Omoluabi Giants let go the seven players following the major shake off in the team to cut expenses and meet the aspiration of staging a return to the elite league
In elections conducted in Osogbo on Thursday and supervised by NFF Assistant Chief Sports Officer, Dr. Christian Emeruwa, Ogunjobi, who was unopposed, polled all 34 votes cast by eligible delegates
For the position of the First Vice President, Seyi Akinwunmi emerged the winner
Shehu Dikko was the only candidate out of the seven presidential aspirants that had not arrived and therefore did not participate in the debate held at the Golden Tulip Hotel
Biambo said in a telephone interview in Abuja that any attempt to admit more people into the race would make a mockery of the election
Lask week, the football house unbanned the former Secretary General of the federation, Ogunjobi and former Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Adedapo Lam-Adesina, which was part of resolutions reached during an executive committee meeting of the NFF board
Aside from Ogunjobi, other persons freed are: Adedapo Lam-Adesina, Chikelue Iloanusi and Harrison Jalla.
The Committee noted that the ban on Ahmed Shuaib Gara-Gombe had long been lifted
The Amoni Biambo-led electoral committee had earlier on Wednesday disqualified Taiwo Ogunjobi, Segun Odegbami and Mike Umeh as chairmanship candidates
The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Amoni Biambo, who briefed newsmen on Wednesday, said the disqualification of Odegbami followed his failure to attach the receipt of his intent form to the form when he submitted it
In a document sent to Barrister Chris Green, the Chairman of the Technical and Development Committee of the NFF, ASEC emphatically declared that Ogunjobi did not sign any of the documents that tied Kayode to the club
This was contained in a communiqué signed by Chief Emeka Inyama after the executive committee of the federation met on Saturday at Saro-Maria Hotel in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, to discuss pertinent issues in Nigerian football
Inyama’s committee has two NFF Executive Committee members, Chief Felix Anyansi-Agwu and Alhaji Ahmad Muazu Kawu, as well as Richard
Jideaka as members