– Infantino
will be in Nigeria on a two-day working visit
– The FIFA president will meet President
Muhammadu Buhari during his visit
–
The Italian-Swiss is expected in Abuja on Sunday, July 24
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| R-L:
FIFA President Gianni Infantino, NFF President Amaju Pinnick and Ms Samoura,
the FIFA secretary general |
The
president of the world football governing body FIFA Gianni Infantino and the
secretary general, Ms Fatma Samoura, will arrive Nigeria on Sunday, July
24, on a two-day working visit.
The
Italian-Swiss who was elected FIFA president at an extraordinary general
assembly in Zurich on February 26, 2016, confirmed the trip following a meeting
with NFF president Amaju Pinnick in Paris, France on Sunday, July 10.
During the
two-day visit, Infantino and Samoura will pay a courtesy call on President
Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) 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 May 12. 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.
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