President Bola Tinubu has approved Nigeria’s bid to host the 2026 CAF Awards and the 48th CAF Ordinary General Assembly.
President Bola Tinubu has approved Nigeria’s bid to host the 2026 Confederation of African Football Awards and the 48th CAF Ordinary General Assembly.
The Nigeria Football Federation disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, saying the approval followed a meeting between Tinubu and CAF president Patrice Motsepe during the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
Those present at the meeting included Foreign Affairs Minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, NFF president Ibrahim Gusau, former NFF president Amaju Pinnick and CAF acting secretary-general Samson Adamu.
“The President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, has approved Nigeria’s proposed hosting of the 48th Ordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football, as well as this year’s CAF Awards Ceremony,” the statement read.
Nigeria last hosted the CAF Awards in Lagos in 2015.
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