Sports

May 2, 2016

Call Giwa to order – SWAN tells Minister

Call Giwa to order – SWAN tells Minister

Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung signing the condolence register of NFF, Head of Protocol, Ibrahim Abubakar, at NFF Secretariat, Abuja, on Wednesday, January 6, 2015

Sports journalists in Nigeria have tasked the Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung to call Chris Giwa group to order so as to put a stop to the lingering crisis bedev-illing the administration of football in the country.

Rising from its emergency full council meeting in Ilorin, Kwara state on Saturday April 30, 2016 SWAN condemned  the   days action of the Chris Giwa group and called on the Sports Minister to take a decisive step to put an immediate end to what they termed as “national embarra-ssment.”

The 8-point commu-niqué also advised  all stakeholders in sports to eschew personal aggrandizement and allow for the development of sports in the country especially during this Olympic year

SWAN also called on the sports ministry and the Nigeria Olympic Committee to “ensure proper and adequate preparation for Team Nigeria’s successful participation at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to avoid a repeat of the 2012 disastrous participation in London”

The council also inaugurated a 7-Man electoral committee headed by Yusuf Isa to conduct election for the next National Executive Committee within 90