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FIFA’s action in upturning the Ivorian football federation emergency committee decison, puts NFF on the edge

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4 years ago

August 25, 2020

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On Sunday this week, the world football governing body FIFA, ordered the cancelation of the Ivorian football federation (FIF) emergency general assembly following their decision to vote on replacing the electoral commission handling the Ivorian FA elections.

FIF, that is the Ivorian FA was trying to freeze out former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba from the election perhaps to favour the Vice president and president of the league body, Sory Diabate who is also running for the plum job alongside former third FA vice president Idriss Diallo

In what looked like a carefully planned coup by FIF, that has full resemblance to what happened in Anambra state where the NFF bluntly put aside the election conducted by the electoral committee only to go ahead and set up a caretaker committee with a fresh mandate to run football in the state for another three months before putting in place modalities for fresh election, FIFA in it’s wisdom described the action of the Ivorian FA as unconstitutional and totally out of place.

In a letter dated August 21, 2020, FIFA told the FIF that
*”the emergency committee is not competent to suspend the FIF electoral process which is already ongoing and must resume without delay*”

This ruling has further rubbished a recent ruling of the Nigeria football federation to interfere in the Anambra FA election by first setting aside the decision of the congress that gave electoral committee powers to conduct a virtual election and then nullifying the outcome of the election that returned the incumbent Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah to power for a second term.

Key football stakeholders in Anambra state and some members of the electoral committee are currently putting heads together on how to put forward a strong worded petition to FIFA to intervene in the injustice that took place only recently in Nigeria football.

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CSO Salutes Trump

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2 weeks ago

January 20, 2025

The Gleamer

A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.

Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.

“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.

“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.

The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.

He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.

According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.

Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.

Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening

About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.

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