BY JUDE OPARA, Abuja
More than one year after the Sunday Dankaro house was inaugurated as the new Secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the football house says it was still awaiting the release of the fund promised by the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio to furnish and move into the new office.

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Governor Akpabio had made the promise to furnish the house which was donated by the defunct Presidential Task Force (PTF) when he met with the board and management staff of the NFF in Uyo recently.

The new NFF Secretariat which was commissioned by the Vice President, Namadi Sambo in 2013 has been projected to cost N44m to furnish and the cost was in NFF 2014 budget proposal which was equally approved by the National Assembly.

In a chat with Sports Vanguard Wednesday, General Secretary of the NFF, Musa Amadu said that the federation was yet to propose a date for its movement to the new secretariat because the furnishing had not started as the promised funds were yet to be received.

While commending the government of Akwa Ibom State for the partnership, Amadu assured that work will commence without delay as soon as fund was made available for the furnishing even as he regretted that the building could be facing some dilapidation because it had never been put to use since inauguration.

“I cannot confirm the report until I see the funds made available to us, but I do understand that the governor is committed to furnishing the Sunday Dankaro House.”

Speaking on preparedness of the new Ibom International Stadium to host the forthcoming Super Eagles’ international matches, Amadu said the stadium is of international standard which could match any other stadium anywhere in the world.