FIFA president to visit Nigeria in two weeks
Nigeria will play hosts to the President of world football –governing body, FIFA, Mr. Gianni Infantino and the Secretary General, Ms Fatma Samoura will arrive Nigeria in a fortnight.
The duo are expected to arrive Nigerian for a two –day working visit on Sunday, 24th July.
Infantino confirmed the trip in a meeting with Nigeria Football Federation (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,” thenff.com quotes Pinnick as saying.
During the two –day visit, Infantino and Samoura will pay a courtesy call on President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
He will aslo hold a 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 also on the cards.
Gianni Infantino was elected FIFA President at an extraordinary general assembly in Zurich on 26th February 2016.
Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, on the other hand, was appointed FIFA Secretary General at the 66th FIFA Congress in Mexico City on 12th May..
