Nigeria Football Federation Secretariat In A Sorry States

Nigeria Football Federation Secretariat In A Sorry States

By Admin

After so many consultations and assurance from the leader of the Nigeria Football Federation for a brighter change into Nigeria football sector in general, some stakeholders have said that has been the words used for so many years.

Despite the active Honorable Minister of Youth and Sports Sunday Dare who wants the face of sports changed in Nigeria came out with an Adopt a Stadium or Athletes Campaign.

But his counterpart in the football sector refuses to start the race by making the infrastructure built with the common man money put to good use.

Most Nigerians believe Nigeria Football has moved to his permanent residence as it was projected in 2013 by ending renting act After 68 years of its inception, the opening of the gorgeous building will end NFF’s close to seven decades of using temporary offices.

The football federation- then Nigeria Football Association, NFA- office was at a time located in Lagos, on Ogunlana Drive in Surulere before it was moved to Abuja at the turn of the millennium.

The Nigeria Football Federation’s permanent secretariat was inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented by the Vice President Namadi Sambo, inside the package B of the National Stadium Abuja.

The building located beside the FIFA Technical Centre and football turf (Goal Project) has a 27-room facility as well as a penthouse that will serve as the office of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, who performed the sod-turning ceremony for the Football House on February 21, 2012, joined Messrs Jonathan, Maigari, and several other cabinet ministers and executive committee members in performing the opening ceremony of the edifice.

The NFF and the entire Nigeria football was grateful to His Excellency for approving the project and we also commend the Honourable Minister of Sports for his tremendous support to ensure the completion of the project, said the then NFF president Aminu Maigari.

But a recent visit by a senior colleague in Journalism and a man of reputable standard who have seen it all how football is been managed all over the world was very disappointed with what he saw on the ground in Abuja.

According to Osasu Obayiuwana, he has tried to restrict his expectation from the NFF head led by Amaju Pinnick by comparing his expectation with another Africa country who are so serious in making their football grow.

In his findings, he could bring together the recent pictures of both Football federations talking about the headquarters of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and the Nigeria Football Federation.

The first eight pictures show the headquarters of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation.

In his findings, Royal Moroccan Football Federation bought their HQ five years ago at €1.5m. And we speak The same building is now valued at over €6m due to good usage and adding more value to it.

You can see that this is a place where serious business is being done.

But coming home to our Secretariat that was built recently and commissioned by the then President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013 and is yet to be occupied by the NFF in 2020.

Despite hundreds of million naira spent on Sunday Dankaro house, they still stay at the horrible ‘Glass House’ building on Olusegun Obasanjo Way in Abuja. The NFF is so embarrassed by the current building they occupy that they made sure that Gianni Infantino and Fatma Samoura have never visited the place, during all their visits to NIGERIA.

Rats, lizards and cockroaches have been the occupants of the ‘new’ NFF HQ for seven years.

Why has the NFF failed to move into their new HQ? Only Amaju Pinnick, the President of the NFF, can answer that question.

Even the artificial turf that was paid for, out of FIFA ‘Goal Project’ funds, which also paid for the offices annexed to the pitch, is also in a shambolic state.

What is wrong with NIGERIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION LEADERS?

Culled from Osasu Obayiuwana