FIFA boss Gianni Infantino and President, Confederation of African Football, Patrice Motsepe, will attend the maiden Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Football Tournament, The PUNCH reports. The football showpiece is Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari’s pet project ‘Future Assured’ with its central theme on girl-child empowerment. “FIFA and CAF are deeply involved with various programmes on empowerment, leadership and governance among the women folks. The leadership of these football bodies have sunk huge intervention fund in various programmes directed at the women. “The 2019 Women’s World Cup in France was a masterpiece of cumulative efforts by the world football body to bring to the fore women game and every other thing concerning the women.

Source: Punch July 12, 2021 23:15 UTC