Out –going President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Aminu Maigari will next week attend a meeting of the Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations during a week of meetings of CAF sub –committees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Aminu Maigaria
Maigari, who will preside over the two Extra-Ordinary Congresses to be convened by the NFF in line with the directives of FIFA, to usher in a new NFF Executive Committee, will join other members of his Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations for a crucial meeting in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday, September 17.
It is at the said meeting that the committee will, among other things, recommend to the Confederation of African Football a date for the staging of the Draw Ceremony of the 30th Africa Cup of Nations, taking place in Morocco early next year. The event will come up after the last round of qualifying matches on November 19.
Also traveling for the CAF meetings are two Members of the out –going NFF Executive Committee, High Chief Emeka Inyama and Alhaji Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh’.
Inyama is a member of the CAF Media Committee while ‘Fresh’ sits on the Technical and Development Committee.
From Addis Ababa, Maigari, who has also previously served on the Organising Committees for the CAF U-23 Championship and the African Nations Championship, will fly to Zurich, Switzerland for a meeting of his FIFA Players’ Status Committee at the Home of FIFA.
Maigari was appointed member of the influential FIFA panel in December 2011, by FIFA President Sepp Blatter. The Committee deals with eligibility of players for the various nationalities in FIFA.
The meeting of the FIFA Players’ Status Committee will take place between September 22 and 23.