Federation secretaries reshuffled

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has announced the reshuffle of national association secretaries.

Under the new dispensation, all the six geopolitical zones are represented to achieve efficiency, professionalism and national spread for equality and sustainability.

According to a press statement from Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Sports, made available to TribuneSport on Tuesday, under the new postings, Segun Oguntade, Olumide Bamiduro, Gloria Ekwempu, Ademu Elijah, Beyioku Niyi, Abobi Patrick and Olalekan Alabi were redeployed to the Federation and Elite Athletes Department (FEAD), while Patrick Okeke, Clement Iyaluegbehe, Ajao Olufemi, Ganiyu-Opolo Abidemi and Dapo Akinyele were posted to Grassroots Sports Development.

Chinedu Ezealah, Thecla Opara and Iwang Isreal will now move to Sports Planning, Research and Documentation, Uche Onwumeh and Mbora Ikana are deployed to the Lagos Liason office, while Onyeka Emeka Augustine, Birma Buba Ademu and Ogenyi Queen move to Human Resource Management.

In the redeployment, a new set of ministry staff were assigned to the federations which hitherto were managed by those posted to the ministry departments, while the others were moved to other federations.

All appointments are with immediate effect.

Meanwhile, Barrister Dalung has urged the newly appointed secretaries to be diligent and desist from acts capable of undermining the authority of the ministry. He urged them to work towards the uplifting of sports development in the country.