Last Thursday, purely out of curiosity and the unusual invitation I received from Augustine Eguavoen, former captain as well as former Manager of the Super Eagles, for whom I have a lot of respect, I attended a Nigeria Football Federation program for the first time in ages.

The invitation aroused my curiosity.

FIFA is promoting and funding a new development program targeted at the global grassroots. It involves supporting Member Associations to identify, educate and train young football talents, and nurture them to become the best. This automatically means proper involvement of schools and football academies in the country’s football development agenda and architecture.

It was all sweet music to my ears.  I dropped everything I was doing and headed to Abuja for the one-day workshop.

I am glad I did.

Air Peace Ambassador

I had not been to Abuja for a while. This was my second trip only,

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