World football –ruling body, FIFA will hold its FIFA
Executive Football Summit (EFS) meeting in Lagos, Nigeria in February next
year, the Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed.
“Nigeria
has been selected as a Member Association to host one of the 12 FIFA Executive
Football Summit meetings happening between November 2017 and March 2018, as
part of FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s vision of ‘bringing FIFA back to
football and football back to FIFA’,” NFF President Amaju Pinnick said on
Monday.
Already,
the NFF has selected Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island as venue and hotel
accommodation for the big event, slated for 20th February 2018.
Pinnick
added: “This is a very important event on the FIFA calendar. That Nigeria is
deemed good enough to be among the 12 countries to host the FIFA Executive
Football Summit meetings is no mean feat. It is another marker of our global
acceptability, visibility and reckoning.
“The NFF
opted for Eko Hotels and Suites because FIFA officials are familiar with that
facility and its services. It hosted FIFA teams during the 1999 FIFA World
Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U17 World Cup. Also important is the fact
that the hotel has a new facility named The Signature, and which is
of 5-Star quality and rating.
“The entire
project, including the expenses of all the participants, such as their
accommodation, feeding and transportation and all other logistics having to do
with the programme, will be bankrolled by FIFA. ”
A FIFA
official was in Lagos during the week to check out on accommodation and other
facilities listed for the event.
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