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NOTES FROM RUSSIA FROM DURO …
How can we begin to explain to strangers what is happening in our country the alleged bag of Amaju? Melvin Pinnick through the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung's interpretation of the Supreme Court judgment has become a ritual every four years to the Nigeria Football Federation? Since the story hit the airwaves, some of the African journalists here in Russia for the World Cup have asked Nigerian sports journalists what was happening in our country? Are we ashamed? Of course, we are not only ashamed of the developments in our country, but we do not know what to say each time we come in contact with our colleagues. There is this Ghanaian journalist who came from the United States for the Mundial but who feels as bad as Nigeria as his country, Ghana has become the target of jokes among our European colleagues that we all rub shoulders in the same section of media. St Petersburg Stadium Center.
"Every four years since 2006, Nigeria is still in the news for the wrong reason.Every time your team returns from the World Cup, it's always, war, war, war. "What are you ever tired of doing politics with your football?" asked the lady, none of us having an answer to her question. How can I tell him that instead of real football administrators, what we have in Nigeria are men (and women) who think only of their stomachs?
Although she admits that Ghana has problems with Kwesi Nyantakyi. leaving the work of GFA but quickly pointed out that what prompted CAF Vice President to resign was not related to the kind of intrigues that have marked Nigerian football since 2005 when Ibrahim Galadima was forced to leave the Glbad House for the 2006 World Cup was not a birthright, but through hard work. Since then, Nigerian football has known no peace since since new personnel are still (forced?) On the Glbad House as soon as the Super Eagles return from a mishap to the Mundial. That was like that in 2010, 2014 and now 2018. Instead of doing a post-mortem of why the Eagles failed to realize the dream of 180 million Nigerians, a tiny fraction of the actors who have access to the seat of power in Abuja, still seize the reins of the outgoing president of the FFN by trumped-up charges to force their exits. That was like that in the case of Galadima (the Eagles never did it in Germany in 2006), Sani Lulu Abdullahi (2010), Aminu Maigari (2014) and now Pinnick (2018).
To answer my Ghanaian colleague here Russia on its investigation into whether our stakeholders will ever be tired of the intrigues, I want to say here that as long as we have never completely repealed the NFA decree 101 that makes from the federation an arm of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports and by extension, the minister sitting the "Oga in charge" there will never be peace. And also, as long as the government continues to appoint men who do not know how many players make up a basketball team as sports ministers, we will continue to have the kind of situations we find ourselves after Russia 2018.
that the NFA bill has been "stuck" in the National Assembly for decades. The desire to move Nigerian football away from government interference is lacking in the country. Football is considered the "king of sports" and the Ministry of Sports will become uninteresting for anyone who is designated to oversee the place without football. The money in football is too tempting for any minister not to get involved in the football business.
Rather than seeing football as a bargain and allowing the beautiful game to flourish as in healthier climates, only "politically corrected" elements. are encouraged to govern it. For once, a person like Pinnick who brought some elements of business into the administration of the NFF by attracting multinationals and big businesses for her to badociate with it, has been harbaded by unnecessary litigation. I really do share the feelings of those who are angry that the Eagles have not managed to fly to Russia despite the amount of support given to the team.
I am also of the opinion that if we do not allow the structures set up to take root, we will never really realize its potential in world football. A change of guard will not only make us lose more than a decade of our football, we risk being on the verge of a long penalty from the world governing body , FIFA. And the rest of the world will not wait for Nigeria to catch up. Who wants to bet that this situation will be played again (if Eagles qualifies) when we come back from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?
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