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Invest More In Football, FIFA President Infantino Charges Nigerians
…Commends, Sports ministry, NFF for football development
Joel Ajayi
President of World –governing body FIFA, Mr Gianni Infantino has called on all Nigerians to invest more in the growth and development of football in the country saying Nigeria deserve the best.
He stated this in Abuja at the presidential villa in the company of CAF President, Dr Patrice Motsepe, Sports Minister Sunday Dare and other football stakeholders when he met with President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR at the Presidential Villa in a visit on Thursday in Abuja.
Infantino and Motsepe landed in the City of Lagos on Wednesday, hours before the commencement of a tournament staged in honour of the name and Office of the First Lady of the Federal Republic, Dr. (Mrs) Aisha Buhari and with the instrumental theme, “Playing for Good.”
Speaking when he visited the ongoing renovation of MKO Abiola Stadium, he applauded the Nigeria’s government for putting in place the infrastructure through the Public -Private partnership courtesy of Aliko Dangote.
According to FIFA Scribe, earlier today, when I met with Nigeria’s government, Minister, football stakeholders as well as some private investors like Aliko Dangote who are investing their resources in stadium.
“Nigeria deserves the best, we need to work together for the country to get the quality and the best game.
“This is not just about Nigeria, we need to work together to ensure we have new opportunities, new competition and new innovation we can bring for Nigerian to feel the stadium heartbeat for fantastic spectators that Nigeria and the world will be proud of.” He said
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CSO Salutes Trump
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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