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Post COVID-19: I Foresees Brighter Future For Football-Abia Warriors Sporting Director

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5 years ago

May 20, 2020

Joel Ajayi

The Sporting Director of one of the Nigeria Premier football League NPFL giants, Abia Warriors Football Club of Umuahia Mr. Patrick Ngwaogu has opined that the post pandemic COVID-19 period will augur well for football in Nigeria and the world in general.

Ngwaogu who was a Guest in an NTA network sports program on Tuesday said that the world has come to appreciate the important role Football plays in the society.

He said that he is for seeing a situation where the corporate bodies will embrace the sponsorship of football activities to launch themselves back to reckoning in global economy immediately after the Coronavirus pandemic.

Mr. Ngwaogu who is also a Journalist, advised the organizers of the game to fully prepare themselves to embrace the boost that will follow the pandemic.

The former FCT FA Vice Chairman said he is yet to come to terms on how some of the new guidelines FIFA released recently will work effectively in our local leagues “increasing the team to 23 players per match is extra logistics on the clubs, quarantining the players before match, and traveling with two buses amounts to extra cost on the teams. Teams that are not financially buoyant will find it difficult to cope. Unless, FIFA would have to review some of the rules before the game will restart here”.

He insisted that his team Abia Warriors is ever ready to resume immediately the game of football returns to Nigeria “we are very much in touch with our players.

“The technical crew prepares weekly training programs for the players, and we monitor them to ensure that they follow it to the latter, so that they will be fit whenever the league will resume.

“Not only that, we advised them to keep to all the precautionary measures outlined by the Federal Government to ensure that they are healthy and safe, because Football is only for the healthy” he concluded.

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Lawmaker condemns arrest of VDM

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2 days ago

May 4, 2025

The Gleamer

The member representing Ndokwa/Ukwuani federal constituency in House of Representatives, Rep. Nnamdi Ezechi has vehemently condemned the arrest of Mr Martins Otse popularly known as Very Dark Man (VDM).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that On May 2, Martins Otse was arested on allegation of cyberstalking the Guarantee Trust Bank, Abuja.

NAN reports that he visited the bank, where he complained about alleged unauthorized deduction of funds from his mother’s account.

Ezechi who described the arrest as unprofessional, called on the Nigerian Police Authorities to prioritize professionalism in the discharge of their constitutional duties.

He said that the police would have invited him professionally as a law abiding citizen of Nigeria than applying a gestapo approach.

“I, Hon Nnamdi Ezechi vehemently condemn the arrest of Very Dark Man at the Guarantee Trust Bank, Abuja.

“Very Dark Man, I know is not a criminal, and as such cannot be arrested like a criminal,” he said.

The lawmaker who called for VDM’s immediate release, advised banks especially GTB management to always protect their customers’ privacy.

Ezechi said that it was unethical for banks to disclose informations about movement or privacy of their customers especially law abiding customers like VDM.

According to him, VDM is a Human Rights Activist who fights for the rights of oppressed and common people in the society.

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