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Niger Tornadoes Appoints Mohammed As Technical Adviser
Niger Tornadoes FC has officially confirmed Majin Mohammed as the team’s substantive Technical Adviser on a season-long contract.
The appointment was formalised at a signing and unveiling ceremony held at the Niger Tornadoes Secretariat, Niger State Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.
Dignitaries present at the ceremony included Commissioner of Youth and Sports Development, Ibrahim Yahaya Gulbin-Boka, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Nuhu Garba Ngaski, and top management members of the ministry.
In his address, Commissioner Gulbin-Boka praised the management for their decisive and timely decision towards ensuring the team’s safety last season and commended Majin Mohammed for his exceptional performance in rescuing the team from the drop, urging him to exceed expectations now that he is fully in charge of the team.
Chairman of the Niger Tornadoes Management Committee, Engr. Ibrahim Dada, highlighted Majin Mohammed’s impressive achievements as Acting Technical Adviser, notably guiding the team from 19th position to avoiding relegation. He emphasised that this success made Mohammed the ideal candidate for the job.
He re-echoed the need for Mohammed to step up his game as only his performance can guarantee his stay on the job.
In an interview with journalists shortly after his unveiling, Mohammed, expressed his gratitude to the team’s management, his assistants, players, and entire staff for their support in making his appointment a reality.
He pledged to build on the success of the previous season and vowed to work tirelessly to achieve even better results in the upcoming season.
“I’m thankful for the trust placed in me, and I’m committed to repaying that trust with hard work and dedication,” Mohammed said.
England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.
Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.
Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.
Kiadum Edookor