FIFA president Gianni Infantino is expected in Nigeria for the maiden edition of the Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Football Tournament , according to Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
The tournament’s organisers have confirmed that alongside Infantino, CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe, FIFA General-Secretary, Fatma Samoura, and other world football dignitaries would be at the six-nation tournament in Lagos in September.
The tournament, to be organised in honour of Nigeria’s First Lady, Her Excellency, Aisha Buhari will have in attendance hosts, Nigeria, Cameroun, Ghana, South Africa, Mali and Morocco.
The Director of Organisation, Aisha Falode said the presence of the football bigwigs at the august occasion will attest to their high regard the for the First Lady.
“Their acceptance to personally attend the football fiesta is in line with the football body’s programmes of growth, commercialisation, marketing and rebranding of the women football which of late have seen issues affecting the game receiving global attention at every forum,” Falode, the foremost broadcast journalist and Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) chairperson, said. “FIFA and CAF are deeply involved with various programmes on empowerment, leadership and governance among the women folks.
“She added: “The leadership of these football bodies have sunk huge intervention funds in various programmes directed at the women and these interventions are in tandem with Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s pet NGO project ‘Future Assured’ with its central theme on girl-child empowerment.
“The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France was a masterpiece of cumulative efforts by the world football body to bring to the fore women’s game and every other thing concerning the women.”
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