Nigerian Women Team Again

The female team kept alive their chances,as the Funke Oshonaike team won their first match against Estonia 3-0,but lost narrowly 2-3 to England in the second game of the day. The Nigerian team are now third on the group standings,the first three in a group progresses to the next round.

Sports Minister blames House of Assembly,for sports crisis.

The Supervising Minister of Sports/ Bolaji Abdulahi, at the Senate Public Hearing on Sports yesterday said the National Assembly is responsible for the crisis that has engulfed the sports sector.

Speaking at the Senate Public Hearing ,the Minister blamed the National Assembly for not putting in adequate measures to unite the sports family,but rather the House intensifies the rift ‘by knocking the heads of the agencies against the National Sports Commission.“The National Assembly has continued to promote the crisis in the sports sector by giving the agencies under the NSC the feeling that they are independent and disregarding the supervisory roles of the commission,” said Abdulahi.
He revealed that his tenure as Minister of Sports has opened his eyes to the reality that the NSC has been almost relegated to a mere government agency that has no respect and recognition from such government agencies as the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and the National Institute for Sports (NIS), which are supposed to be operating under the commission.
The minister also noted that instead of making the NFF and NIS budgets to pass through the NSC as the supervising organ, the National Assembly ignores the commission’s supervisory role over the agencies and invites them independently to defend their budgets.

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