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CAF awards: Senate tasks FG on more investments in sports
Following Sunday’s Confederation of African Football, CAF major awards won by Nigerians in Morocco, the Senate has charged the federal government to invest more in sports so that young men and women could continue harvesting awards for the country.
In the CAF Awards, Victor Osimhen won the Men African Player of the Year Award; Asisat Oshoala won the Women African Player of the Year Award; Chiamaka Nnadozie won Best Goalkeeper of the Year and Super Falcons won the Best Women National Team Award, respectively.
The Red Chamber, in a statement signed by its chairman, Committee on Sports Development, Senator Suleiman Kawu Sumaila, described the awards “as bold and big statements made on behalf of Nigeria by the winners.”
“It is a wake up call for government to invest more in sports and to pull the private sector more into it,” he stated.
Accordingly, the committee, on behalf of the Senate congratulated President Bola Tinubu; the Minister of Sports, Senator John Owan Enoh and the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF on the feats recorded by Nigerians from the awards.
Senator Sumaila in the statement also described the harvest of awards by Nigerians as new dawn for sports in the country under the ‘ Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu.
The statement reads: “By this clean sweep of awards by our son, Victor Osimhen, our daughters Asisat Oshoala, Chiamaka Nnadozie and the entire Super Falcons team, we in the Senate Committee, will leverage on the success for nation building.
“We stand to be corrected, no sector has done Nigeria this proud. No sector has brought Nigeria honour and glory more than sports. This is the more reason for the development of the sector in making it one of the strongest pillars for diversification of the nation’s economy.
“We will not encourage the handshake policy of the past to be used for those who have done us the new honours but ensure that those who deserve to be rewarded are handsomely rewarded to serve as an encouragement for others to strive to be the best.”
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