Kanu, Diouf storm Kano for Match-4-IDPs
Two former winners of the prestigious African Footballer of the Year Award, Nigeria’s Kanu Nwankwo and Senegal’s El-Hadji Diouf will storm Kano on Monday to begin awareness programme for support for internally displaced persons through sports.
The event slated for the ancient city of Kano will see one of the most successful Nigerian footballers, Kanu and Senegalese international, Diouf meeting stakeholders in the state to deliberate on the planned event.
It is expected that Kanu will be leading top former African legends to do battle with former Nigeria league champions, Kano Pillars in a date to be announced by the organisers.
Already preparations are in top gear in the state to receive the top stars as it was gathered that the Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima led Sports Commission were doing everything possible to ensure a hitch-free event.
The initiator of the Charity Football Match tagged Match-4-IDPs, Canada based Nigerian advocator, Ms. Abi Goodman said football was picked to commence the drive for the support for IDPs because it is the most popular game in the country.
“The passion for the game is immense and it is one sport that unites all Nigerians around the world.”
Abi said it will also afford the people the opportunity to relate with their heroes who will be storming the ancient city for the game and create the needed awareness to stand as one in time of crisis as a nation.
According to her, the initiative was propelled by the action of the Canadian government through the minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Honourable Ahmed Hussen, who used her to give support to Internally Displaced Persons in the North eastern part of Nigeria