Chairman of Dabo Babes FC Alhaji Dauda Auwalu has said one of the ways that will guarantee Nigeria’s future as far as football success is concerned is giving more attention to the country’s academies and other amateur clubs.
Auwalu whose club discovered FIFA U17 world cup winning defender Zaharadeen Bello and a host of other players for the national team added that the ongoing plans by the sports
ministry to make a lot of policy changes that will better the sector is apt at this time considering recent failures. “At the individual level it is so difficult to reach certain levels with the amateur clubs and academies but when there’s government intervention and high attention from the authorities, the sky will be our limit, the grassroots have a lot to give back to the country,” the Kano based proprietor said.
It was back in April that sports minister Solomon Dalung inaugurated a 12-man ministerial committee to restructure sports in Nigeria for effective development. The committee submitted its report to the minister last week where he announced implementations will be carried out to the core. “There is a fear and apprehension on whether or not this report will be implemented. This fear and apprehension has its roots
in the antecedent of the way past governments have treated previous reports of similar committees. I want to assure Nigerians and members of this committee that we will implement this report.” “We will identify the foundational issues and hit the road running. The ministry will organise a stakeholder’s validation meeting in October (next month) to review and adopt the document as property of the Nigerian Sports Sector,” Dalung said.
