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DIGNITARIES, CAF & FIFA OBSERVERS ENTER THE HALL

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BY ALIYU NASIR KANKARA IN KATSINA.

Activities relating to the 2018 NFF Elective Congress are about to commence. While minutes ago, the hall was empty, the delegates are already coming in.

Among them are the two FIFA Observers, Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege and also the CAF Observer, Sita Sangare, an Army Colonel who is also President of the Burkina Faso Football Federation.

Luca Piazza, the lead FIFA Observer is a senior official in the FIFA President’s office.  Mudege is FIFA’s Senior Manager for Development Programmes (Africa).

The order of the election will be announced on the floor after the opening ceremonies which will largely be speeches and goodwill messages.

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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