NFF inspection team hails Onwubiko over academy
From John Kennedy Uzoma, Owerri
The facility inspection team of the Nigeria Football Federation NFF, has extolled the chairman and CEO of Onwubiko International Soccer Academy, Ngor Okpala, Imo state, Hon. Innocent Onwubiko for his giant strides in sports development.
The three man team led by the Chairman Technical Committee of NFF, Mr.Yusuf Fresh at the end of their inspection described the sports facilities on ground as massive and one of the best in the country.
Fresh told Sports Writers that the uniqueness of the project is the fact that it is sited in a community where it would directly benefit the youths.
He noted that the sports facility could as well attract professional football teams in the country who would want to use it for their pre-season camping.
He stressed that what they saw compared with the kind of facilities seen in countries like China, UAE and USA.
Fresh was quick to add that the facility inspection team was in the place to look at the facilities on ground as well as to see how they can assist the promoter technically to ensure he gets thing right moving forward.
Conducting the team round the facilities, the Chairman and CEO Onwubiko International Soccer Academy, Innocent Onwubiko thanked the team for coming to see things for themselves.
He said that the project when completed would have a five-story building with elevator academic block, an indoor soccer training pitch, lecture theatres and hostels.
According to him the place will not only be made home of great football legends in the making but will provide quality education geared towards producing and shaping brilliant minds in other areas.
