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  • SAD! Nigerian Ambassador to Morocco, Bamalli is dead

    SAD! Nigerian Ambassador to Morocco, Bamalli is dead

    The Ambassador of Nigeria to Morocco, Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, is dead.

    Bamalli is also the Magajin Garin Zazzau and biological younger brother to the emir of Zazzau.

    The Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau emirate council in a statement released on Friday said Mansur Nuhu Bamalli died at a private Hospital in Lagos while in transit to Morocco.

    The statement added that “funeral prayers will be announced later.”

    Bamalli, who was appointed a year ago by ex-President, Muhammadu Buhari, is survived by a wife and two children.

    Buhari, in a letter dated October 7 and signed by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, had said the appointment was in recognition of the decades of your meritorious service to our fatherland in the Nigerian Foreign Service.

    The letter read, “You shall be invited in due course for the ceremony of investiture. Please, accept my warm felicitations and those of the Honourable Minister of State, the Permanent Secretary and the entire staff of the Ministry.”

    Before his appointment, he was a deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    Recall that the Foreign Affairs Ministry under the administration of President Bola Tinubu issued a notice for the recall of Nigeria’s ambassadors, both career and non-career envoys across 300 foreign missions worldwide, but the diplomats are yet to return to the country owing to logistics, including Authority to incur Expenditures (AIEs) for passages.

    AIEs are the details of the entitlement of each envoy in terms of their passages and other travel arrangements to return to Nigeria.

  • Olympic Eagles beat Tanzania 2-0, qualify for last qualifying round

    Olympic Eagles beat Tanzania 2-0, qualify for last qualifying round

    Nigeria’s  Olympic U-23 team has qualified to the next stage of the 2023 Africa U-23 series after defeating Tanzania 2-0 at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan, on Saturday.

    The Olympic Eagles have now moved into the final qualifying phase before entering into an 8-team cup format for the African slot at next year Olympics holding in Paris, France.

    Morroco has gotten the nod to host the cup qualifying competition for the Olympics next year.

    Both teams failed to register a goal in the first half  but Salisu Yusuf’s side sailed through 3-1 on aggregate after scoring two second-half goals.

    Ogunniyi Oluwatimilehin Abiodun opened the scoring for Nigeria a minute before the hour mark from a superb free-kick.

    Captain Success Makanjuola doubled the lead from the penalty spot in the 67th minute.

    The Eagles will face Guinea in the final qualifying round.

     

     

  • Paris 2024: Makinde, NFF pump Olympic Eagles’ spirit with $55,000, N10m

    Paris 2024: Makinde, NFF pump Olympic Eagles’ spirit with $55,000, N10m

    Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Nigeria Football Federation have changed the narratives ahead of Saturday’s Africa U23 Cup of Nations cracker between Nigeria and Tanzania, by swelling the money pot of the Olympic Eagles with the sums of $55,000 and N10million.

      Makinde, who hosted the Nigeria U23 boys to a dinner at the Government House, Agodi handed over the sum of N10million to the players and officials there and then, and pledged a further sum of $25,000 should the team earn the minimum win against Tanzania that will shoot them into the final round of the qualifiers against the winner of the fixture between Uganda and Guinea.

    Just before him, Chairman of the NFF Task Force on Youth Competitions, Alhaji Aminu Balele Kurfi had presented the team, through Head Coach Salisu Yusuf, the of $10,000, half of the amount he promised them for a win ahead of the first leg against Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. The 1-1 draw netted the sum of $10,000.

    Balele also pledged the sum of $20,000 for the team should they defeat Tanzania in Ibadan on Saturday, prompting Governor Makinde to also pledge $25,000.

    “I am coming to the stadium with the cash; so, it is not a go-and-come-back promise. I will give you the money once you achieve victory,” Makinde said as players and officials, members of the Oyo State Executive Council, Board Members and Management of the NFF, and NFF congressmen cheered.

    Also at the occasion were the Deputy Governor of Oyo State; Speaker of the House of Assembly; Alhaji Sharif Rabiu Inuwa, Otunba Sunday Dele-Ajayi and Alhaji Babagana Kalli (NFF Board Members); Oyo State Sports Commissioner Seun Fakorede; Otunba Tade Azeez (President of NRA); NFF Congressmen; Kabiyesi James Odeniran (Chairman, Oyo State Football Association) and; Management Staff of the NFF.

    It would be recalled that earlier on Friday, Super Eagles’ captain Ahmed Musa had promised the Olympic Eagles the sum of N500,000 for every goal in Saturday’s cliffhanger at the Lekan Salami Stadium.