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Kaduna State governor, Patrick Yakowa, is expected to declare open the 33rd edition of the African handball club championships in Kaduna, north central Nigeria, on Friday, October 21st, 2011.
Teams participating in the championships have started arriving.
Speaking to journalists in kaduna, the President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Alhaji Yusuf Dauda said: “We have taken all the necessary steps to make sure that we host a hitch free championship and I can assure you that we have done everything humanly possible to make it a success. Almost all the teams have arrived and all the sub-committees of the Local Organising Committee are putting finishing touches to their jobs.”
He added, “We are expecting each team to come with about sixteen players and possibly four officials and they will stay throughout the competition until the closing ceremony. I expect Kaduna to be a beehive of activity during these ten days of the championship”
Dauda urged Nigerians to come out enmasse to support the Nigerian teams and enjoy the championship in general.
In the opening match of the championship, Niger United of Minna will trade tackles with the sole male representative from Congo DR while in the female category, the Grasshoppers of Owerri will also lock horns with the female team of Congo DR.
Meanwhile, the Confederation of African Handball (CAHB) will in the closing ceremony give an award to the former President of Handball Federation of Nigeria, General Ishola Williams (rtd) for his enormous contributions to the game of handball in Nigeria and Africa in general.
Gen. Williams (Rtd) who is currently the Secretary General of Commonwealth Handball Association (CHA) brought the game of handball to Nigeria in 1978 alongside late Colonel Isa Mohammed and further saw to its development which remarkably produced its 1,000 000th player in November, 2009 at Isanlu, Kogi State.
With this award, Williams has joined the league of the Hall of Famers in African handball which include Dr Hassan Moustafa who incidentally is the current president of International Handball Federation (IHF).
NFF: ‘I COULDN’T HAVE BEEN INDUCED’ – ONEYA
The chairman of the Football Reform committee, General Dominic Oneya, has described the report on this blog which referred to his presence in the Nigeria-Ghana match as ‘inducement’ whereas, the second game where the match was played in London “He was in Congo on a CAF assignment. He was not in London for the actual match” said his spokesperson.
According to the spokesman, “the General is not happy that he is painted in such colours. A London trip could not have induced him. It could not have affected the quality of the decisions that the committee would have reached.”
Oneya frowned at the fact that the report claimed the London trip was considered and referred to as “inducement” which he felt was not fair on his person given the public positions he had occupied.
MAIGARI-BARIBOTE PARTNERSHIP. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
Did it occurred to Nigerians that the newest combination of Nigerian football administrators signify a trend? Aminu Maigari led Rumson Baribote to the Nigeria-Guinea game. It ended in a frustrating 2-2 draw. Nigeria was out of the African Nations Cup. Their train went to Ijebu-Ode to cheer Sunshine FC of Akure against Club Africaine. Sunshine lost 0-1. Hence, the train went to Aba to cheer Enyimba FC against Wydad Athletics Club of Morocco. The match ended 0-0. Enyimba was out on a 0-1 aggregate. All these happened in a span of seven days! Imagine this squad in another seven months. Any hope for Nigerian football? This is if you can imagine exactly what is going on in my mind.
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