The entire Nigerian sports community is agog with songs and dances in celebrations as the SSA to President Bola Tinubu on Grassroots Sports Development, Hon. Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye marks his 60th birthday, today.
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When it rains, it pours. And it has been waves and continued outpourings of praises and prayers for with Renowned for the highly regarded and multiple awards winning sports administrator, who is renowned for his resourcefulness, experience and astuteness.
Hon. Adeboye, also fondly called Tripple Authority or Zulu, by friends and admirers, has been variously described as a blessing to grassroots sports development in Nigeria, as well as being a major player in the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to use sports, as a veritable tool for youth engagement and empowerment for the socio-economic betterment of Nigeria.
National Coordinator of Friends Of Nigeria Sports (FNS), Chief Diprieye Thompson, was full of praises and prayers for Hon. Adeboye, who he called the ‘Grandmaster’, of grassroots sports in Nigeria. He went ahead to pray that God continue to bless and protect him, for the benefits of Nigeria and humanity.
Ambassador (Rev). Samuel Ikpea thanked God for the life of Adeboye, saying the celebrated sports administrator is a blessing to sports in Nigeria.
Ikpea, who is the National Chairman of Nigeria Football Supporters Club, prayed that God in His infinite mercies continue to guard, guide and bless Adeboye, in all his doings.
