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    NAWIS Lauds NSC’s Oversight as Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju Secures AFN Board Seat

    SportsDayBy SportsDayJune 11, 2025Updated:June 11, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    _Reconciles aggrieved parties for overall interest of Nigerian Sports_

    The National Association of Women in Sports ( NAWIS ) has commended the Leadership role of the National Sports Commission, NSC, following the election of Ex Nigerian athlete, Fatima Yusuf- Olukoju as NAWIS representative into the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN.

    After the conduct of the NAWIS election that took place in Abuja on Monday, the Director General of the NSC, Hon. Bukola Olopade, held a reconciliatory meeting with the Association and the principal contestants in the polls, Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju and veteran Sports journalist Nneka Anibeze to iron out grey areas that must have arisen from the outcome of the elections.

    The election conducted by NAWIS saw Yusuf-Olukoju beating Anibeze in the polls but both have now decided to forge a common front and work together for the overall interest of the Girl Child and Women empowerment in Nigerian Sports.

    A delighted Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju said after the meeting, that she is overwhelmed with the kind of detailed attention the current NSC leadership is giving to Nigerian Sports and NAWIS is very proud with the current re-engineering going on Nigerian Sports.

    ” The DG is one person that can bring everybody to one table and make us talk which is what we need in our sports so Nigerian sports is proud to have someone like him and the Chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko leading our Sports”.

    We are all family and as family people do fight but the goal is to amend and move on because we all have one common goal which is to see that the AFN succeeds”.

    ” No hard feelings between me and Nneka because I won the NAWIS race. She loves athletics and has been with athletics for a very long time. She even covered me as an athlete so I consider her as an ambassador of AFN.We will team up together and move the federation forward”, she concluded.

    Nneka Anibeze on her part also praised the role the Director General of the NSC played for post-election tensions not to escalate.

    ” I thank the DG for coming in and brokering peace because it actually would not have gone well. He called myself and everyone, and we have all agreed to accept Fatima.

    She is an icon of athletics and Someone who also has her plans for women and girls which is similar to what I had plans for. We also share the same passion and with the help of the DG, we have now agreed to work together for the same goal and believe better things are ahead”.

    Fatima Yusuf- Olukoju Hon Bukola Olopade National association of women in sports NAWIS NAWIS Lauds NSC's Oversight as Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju Secures AFN Board Seat Nneka Anibeze Professor Adeyanju' - Founder NAWIS Professor Suleiman Professor Suleiman - President NAWIS
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