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President Buhari Appoints Amokachi Special Assistant On Sports

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Joel Ajayi

Former Super Eagles Striker and Nigerian  Football  Ambassador  Daniel Amokachi have been appointed as the Special Assistant on Sports to President Mohammadu Buhari.

According to his letter of appointment dated  August  17th, 2020, and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr. Boss Mustapha,  stated ” I am pleased to inform you that   Mohammadu Buhari, President of the  Federal  Republic of Nigeria has approved your appointment as Special Assistant to Sports.

 

The appointment  takes effect from the 11th of August, 2020.”

As Special  Assistant on Sports, Amokachi is expected to advise the President on all sports matters.

 

The Former Everton of England player was earlier in the year named  Nigeria’s  Football Ambassador.  Although a ceremonial role, as Ambassador he is expected to mentor youngsters.

 

Amokachi a.k.a ‘Da Bull’ began his career in  Kaduna with Ranchers Bees Football club of Kaduna,  played for Club Brugge of Belgium,  Besiktas of Turkey, Everton of England and  Colorado Rapids. He has thrice voted the third-best player in Africa.

 

He played in three World Cup finals, won two nations cup as both player and Assistant  Coach,  to Stephen Keshi, Austin Eguavoen, Samson Siasia, and Lars Largerback. He won Gold in the Football event of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics.

 

Since his career was truncated by injury, he  had coached the U-23 National  Team, served as  Assistant  Coach of the Super Eagles and coached Nasarrawa United

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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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