The newly elected Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been given the duty of making football better in Nigeria at all levels by
the honorable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare.
Dare thanked the team for the visit, tasked to move the sport in the right direction and pledged the ministry's support for the board.
"I am happy to see that you have settled down to work as a team. I thank you for this courtesy visit and want to urge you to get down to business quickly to the enormous task ahead of you.
"You have to move the game in the right direction, where all the genuine stakeholders want it to go. You have to hold crucial and critical conversations before you take crucial decisions. Let the interest of the nation be the first and most important consideration in all you do."
"As a new board, this is a new beginning. You have to move things to a higher level. If there are some areas of our football that are broken, then you must fix them and if some areas are unbroken, then don't try to fix them.
"I urge you to improve all levels of our football, build strong national teams, well structured, efficiently run leagues by improving their governance structures.
"This new leadership must be aware and sensitive to the issues that will lead to the growth and development of our football and I promise that as a Ministry, we will continue to do our best to seek the right kind of funding for your programmes," he added.
In his remark, NFF president, Ibrahim Musa Gusau appreciated the Minister and the Sport ministry and promised to foster the relationship between the board and the ministry.
Gusau was in the company of Ahmed Yusuf Fresh, Rabiu Inuwa, Aisha Falode, Margaret Icheen, Rt.Hon Essien Udofot and the General Secretary Dr Mohammed Sanusi.