By Femi Abioye, Executive Secretary ASFU
The Vice President Continental of Africa Sports Management Association (ASMA) Prof. Oluwaseun Omotayo has arrived in Lagos, Nigeria to begins his weeklong tour of the country following his recent appointment as Africa Representative on the Executive Board of World Association for Sports Management (WASM).
Speaking to a cross-section of the media on his arrival yesterday from his base in Ho, Ghana, where he is a Visiting Scholar with the University of Health and Allied Science, Prof Omotayo said that he elected to commence the Africa Tour from Nigeria being his home country as he will be using the Nigeria leg of a tour of Africa Nations to canvass support for strong Country Representations at the 5th Biennial Conference and elective congress of Africa Sports Management Association (ASMA) scheduled for Banjul in The Gambia next year while propagating the philosophy of the global movement of Sports for Development and Peace (SfDP) within the sphere of Sustainable Sports Development (SSD).
He will be paying courtesy visits to some selected Governors, Heads of National, State/Regional Governments, Ministries, and Agencies in the country and particularly the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hilltop resident and round up with an audience with the Hon. Minister of Youth and Sports Development – HM Sunday Dare.
Prof . Omotayo in his capacity as President of African Students Football Union (ASFU) will also be meeting with the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) – ASFU Cup Winners at its inaugural invitation championship to discuss the multi-million naira first of its kind ASFU Center of Excellence for football development to be situated in LASU Ojo Campus and make donations of Football equipment to the citadel of learning in Lagos.
Prof Omotayo Nigeria foremost Sport Psychologist and member of the U20 National Team in 1989, during which time Nigeria played for the first time in the finals of the FIFA competition at that level and made history with the Damman Miracle is scheduled to depart for Nairobi Kenya ASMA continental headquarters at the end of his Nigeria tour.
