Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Presidential Committee on Football concludes Masterplan assignment

By Daniel Oluwole

The 16-member Committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2021 to chart innovative directions that would emphasise governance, grassroots, infrastructure, professionalism and more roles for the private sector in  the development of football, said it has concluded its assignment.

The Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima said this in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement made available to journalists.

Galadima, who is also a former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association stated that the document was ready and awaiting formal presentation to the Minister of Youth and Sports Dr. Sunday Dare who was unavailable due to other official engagements.

Galadima said, “The Presidential Committee on the 10-Year Football Development Masterplan have finished the assignment, we are waiting to submit the report.

“There were speculations whether the Committee was still working or when it would conclude its assignment. We have conclude the assignment,” he stressed.

Galadima who refused to give details of the report said, the report is detailed, grounded on practical solutions to issues across football and its sustained development.

He disclosed that government was in the best position to tell the public details of the reports, saying being a masterplan, its focus is not only in the immediate.

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