Bassey in final NFA interview
Veteran sports journalist, Paul Bassey and two others were the candidates that took part in the final lap of the selection process to pick a new Secretary General for the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Friday.
Nigeriansportsonline.com can report that one-time head of the international department of the NFA, Bolaji Ojo-Oba and another former staff of the football house, Charles Ojugbana joined Bassey to face a nine-man panel that drilled the candidates at the Chida Hotel, Abuja.
The process to pick a substantive Secretary General for the NFA had started some weeks back with the advertisement of the post and other management positions in the Glass House in national newspapers in the country.
Earlier interviews had been conducted in Lagos by employment consultants contracted by the NFA board and Friday’s session in Abuja is believed to be the final stage in the process to fill top management posts in the NFA secretariat.
Some prominent members of the panel that interviewed the various candidates on Friday are Alhaji Sani Lulu, chairman of the NFA board and Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi, a former Secretary General of the association who is a member of the current board.
At the end of it all Alhaji Lulu told Nigeriansportsonline.com: “This is the final lap of screening of the candidates and I can assure Nigerians that very soon they will know who the next NFA Secretary General is.”
Other notable candidates at Friday’s interview session are former Team Manager of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, Davidson Owumi, who is vying to become Deputy Secretary General (Technical) of the NFA and former Super Eagles assistant coach and head of technical department, James Peters.
Peters wants to be the NFA’s Assistant Secretary General (Technical).