The Nigeria Football Federation yesterday moved into the N337m secretariat, seven years after it was commissioned and named as ‘Sunday Dankaro House’.
NFF hitherto operating from the twin-building popularly called NFF Glass House in Wuse area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) since the seat of federal government moved to Abuja in 1997 had over the years failed to move into the secretariat.
In a chat with Daily Trust, the General Secretary of the NFF, Dr Sanusi Mohammed said the movement to the new secretariat began last week Friday and it is still ongoing as at the time of filing this report.
“We started moving since Friday and the movement is ongoing. People are moving, the departments are moving in batches,” he said.
He also stated that there would be no need for a commissioning ceremony since the secretariat had already been commissioned in 2013 by the former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who represented former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“The place was commissioned by the Vice President long time ago and we can’t commission what has already been commissioned. There was ceremony when it was commissioned.
“However, we are going to do a formal communication to let people know we have moved to the new secretariat,” he said.
It will be recalled that in order to help the Super Eagles qualify for the first World Cup on African soil, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua constituted the Presidential Taskforce for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
With the support of government, the Task Force headed by former governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi mobilised funds from philanthropic individuals and corporate bodies to support the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
At the end of the World Cup, the Task Force declared a surplus of N350million which it immediately channelled into what is now the new NFF secretariat located inside the Package B of the MKO Abiola national stadium in Abuja.
The new secretariat comprises 27 rooms with six board rooms, a penthouse and 120-cars parking space and was named after Late Sunday Dankaro who was a businessman, sports administrator and chairman of the then Nigerian Football Association from 1974-1980.
Dankaro was also one time chairman of the defunct National Sports Commission, NSC.
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