Secretary General, Ms Fatma Samoura will arrive Nigeria in a fortnight on a
two-day working visit.
The Italian-Swiss, who was elected FIFA President at an extraordinary general
assembly in Zurich on 26th February 2016, confirmed the trip following a
meeting with NFF President Amaju Pinnick in Paris, France on Sunday.
“The FIFA President and Secretary General will arrive in the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja on Sunday, 24th July on a two-day working visit to Nigeria,”
Pinnick told thenff.com.
During the two-day visit, Infantino and Samoura will pay a courtesy call on His
Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) at the Aso Rock Presidential
Villa, hold meeting with a legion of African FA presidents who are expected in
Nigeria to join the NFF to receive the FIFA topshots and attend an evening
session with Corporate Nigeria in Lagos.
The duo will also meet with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State before
watching the finals of the NFF/ZENITH Bank Future Eagles Championship. A
welcome dinner put together by the League Management Company and also
attended by members of the diplomatic corps is on the cards.
At the one-hour meeting involving Infantino, Samoura and Pinnick on Sunday,
Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung spoke with the FIFA boss
and expressed Nigeria’s readiness to welcome the FIFA team.
Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, 54, was appointed FIFA Secretary General at the
66th FIFA Congress in Mexico City on 12th May. The Senegalese, who has wide
experience working with the United Nations in several countries, is the first-ever
woman to hold the position in FIFA’s 112-year history.
A few days after her appointment, Samoura welcomed Pinnick and NFF 2nd Vice
President/LMC chairman, Shehu Dikko, to a breakfast meeting at her UN office
in Abuja.
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