The newly elected president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Musa has been charged by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare to improve football at all levels across the country.
Dare made the request during the NFF leaders’ courtesy visit to the President’s office at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.
According to the Minister, football is a national asset that fosters unity, and the Federal Government is eager to see it grow and develop.
Dare said in his words, “I am happy to see that you have settled down to work as a team. I thank you for this courtesy visit and want to urge you to get down to business quickly to the enormous task ahead of you.
“You have to move the game in the right direction, where all the genuine stakeholders want it to go. You have to hold crucial and critical conversations before you take crucial decisions. Let the interest of the nation be the first and most important consideration in all you do.”
“As a new board, this is a new beginning. You have to move things to a higher level. If there are some areas of our football that are broken, then you must fix them and if some areas are unbroken, then don’t try to fix them.
“I urge you to improve all levels of our football, build strong national teams, well structured, efficiently run leagues by improving their governance structures.
“This new leadership must be aware and sensitive to the issues that will lead to the growth and development of our football and I promise that as a Ministry, we will continue to do our best to seek the right kind of funding for your programmes,” The Sports Minister said.
