The Minister of Youth and Sports Sunday Dare has hosted the Super Eagles at a breakfast session on their arrival from Cameroon where the team crashed out of the last 16 stage of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON.
Dare, while speaking at the occasion applauded the team despite the team’s early exit from the AFCON edition of the tournament and also expressed confidence of Nigerians in the squad managed at the African football masterpiece by Augustine Eguavoen.
He however stressed that Super Eagles have put Africa and the rest of the world on notice, noted that Nigerian football will be characterized by greater team work, effort and cohesion.
The Minister also lauded Eguavoen and the Coaching staff and concluded that they gave a strong performance despite the early exit.
On his part, Super Eagles Captain, Ahmed Musa has assured that the team will return stronger after their exit from the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon.
Meanwhile, the former Africa champions will aim at saving her image when they meet the Black Stars of Ghana for 2022 FIFA World Cup ticket in the play-offs in March.
The United Nations, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has reported that two separate tropical weather systems in Madagascar have claimed 34 dead and triggered flooding and landslides, particularly in the capital, Antananarivo.
It was gathered that over the last week, intense rainfall has pummeled the African island country in the Indian Ocean, sparking multiple crises across the country’s central Analamanga Region.
The UN tweeted, that the Government, municipal authorities in Antananarivo and humanitarians are mobilising assistance to people impacted by flooding in the capital, saying providing access to water, food and other vital items in displacement sites is the top priority.
The rains were initially driven by an Intertropical Convergence Zone around the equator on January 17 and increased when a Tropical Depression, or cyclone, made landfall in the east of the country some three days later, exiting the other side of the island the following day.
Twenty-four lives were lost over the weekend, mostly in the capital where traditional houses collapsed, and others were swept away by landslides.
