FIFA president, Mr. Gianni Infantino, has confirmed he would visit Nigeria on a two-day working visit.
The Italian-Swiss, who was elected FIFA President at an extraordinary general assembly in Zurich on 26th February 2016, confirmed the trip following a meeting with NFF President Amaju Pinnick in Paris, France on Sunday.
Infantino and FIFA’s Secretary General, Ms Fatma Samoura, will arrive Nigeria in a fortnight.
“The FIFA President and Secretary General will arrive in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Sunday, 24th July on a two –day working visit to Nigeria,” Pinnick told thenff.com
During the two–day visit, Infantino and
Samoura will pay a courtesy call on President Muhammadu Buhari at the
Aso Rock Presidential Villa, hold meeting with a legion of African FA
presidents who are expected in Nigeria to join the NFF to receive the
FIFA topshots and attend an evening session with Corporate Nigeria in
Lagos.
The duo will also meet with Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State before watching the finals of the
NFF/ZENITH Bank Future Eagles Championship. A welcome dinner put
together by the League Management Company and also attended by members
of the diplomatic corps is on the cards.
At the one –hour meeting involving
Infantino, Samoura and Pinnick on Sunday, Nigeria’s Minister of Sports,
Barrister Solomon Dalung spoke with the FIFA boss and expressed
Nigeria’s readiness to welcome the FIFA team.
Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, 54, was appointed FIFA Secretary General at the 66th FIFA Congress in Mexico City on 12th
May. The Senegalese, who has wide experience working with the United
Nations in several countries, is the first –ever woman to hold the
position in FIFA’s 112 –year history.
A few days after her appointment, Samoura welcomed Pinnick and NFF 2nd Vice President/LMC chairman, Shehu Dikko, to a breakfast meeting at her UN office in Abuja.
Source:PUNCH
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