Nigeria Football Federation has expressed profound shock and a sense of deep sorrow at the passage on Saturday, 18th April 2020 of Mallam Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR).

“Mallam Abba Kyari’s death is a big loss to the NFF, Nigerian Football family and the entire country as a whole,” NFF’s director of communications, Ademola Olajire, said. “Nigeria’s football industry has lost a friend and a great man who showed tremendous interest in the progress of the country’s game. He was, indeed, a colossus.”

Olajire said the NFF retains abiding fond memories of Mallam Kyari’s love and support for the various National Teams, accentuated by the passion, energy and resolve with which the Cambridge –educated lawyer and former banking titan attended to, and presented to President Buhari, matters concerning the teams.

“The NFF never had reason, even for one day, to doubt Mallam Kyari’s . . . continue reading https://sportinglife.ng/nff-mourns-abba-kyari-says-he-was-a-colossus/