Activities to mark the birthday of the First Vice President of the NFF who also doubles as the Chairman of the Lagos FA Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi were unveiled over the weekend by the Chairman of the LOC for the one day event and board member LSFA Mojeed Adegbindin at a media parley in Lagos.
Adegbindin explained that the Event was conceived as a vehicle to help Barrister Akinwunmi expand the scope of the charity work he had been carrying for so many years.
Seyi Akinwunmi and a few of his friends have been the driving force behind the “Courage Education Foundation” a charitable organization that is responsible for the the upkeep and education of well over 120 Indigent Nigerian Students.
The event has been designed as a day of Fun and fundraising using one of the LSFA Chairman’s passion (football) to raise funds for another of his passions (Charity).
The Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament 2014 comes up on Sunday the 28th of December 2014 at the Campos Mini Stadium, Lagos Island, Lagos.
The event kicks off at ten am prompt with a match between the Under 15’s of Ekofootball, which also includes some members of the Nigeria National Under 15 team.
This match will be followed by a game between two female football teams in Lagos.
6 teams have been penciled down to do battle on the Sunday December the 28th and they are:
1, NFF/LSFA All Stars
2, APFON
3, ALL Stars International
4, Trinity House Team
5, Friends of Seyi (FoS) 1 – ICOBA
6, Friends of Seyi (FoS) 2 - WOZA
The association of professional footballers of Nigeria (APFON) will take on the All Stars International team parading the likes of ALIBABA, Victor Agali and Friday Ekpo just to name a few.
Also taking part in the Mini Tournament are The Trinity House team, and two teams formed by friends of Seyi Akinwunmi namely 1, Friends Of Seyi (WOZA) and Friends of Seyi (ICOBA), plus the sixth team made up of members of the NFF and LSFA.
Also on hand to lend his support to the project was the Special Assistant on football Matters to the Governor of Lagos, Gov Babatunde Raji Fashola, Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye.
Adeboye extolled the virtues of the LSFA Boss while pledging his unflinching support to the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament.
Speaking at the media parley Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi said “One of the closest things to my heart is children, they are the very essence of being that’s why at Ekofootball we encourage children a lot”
“The main aim of the event and project is to empower the kids” by raising funds for children who cannot afford their education”
he added that “our foundation (I.E Courage education foundation) is about indigent intelligent children”.
Akinwunmi also stated that the princely sum of 1 million Naira will be set aside for indigent ex internationals who are bed ridden, or those with health issues while a certain percentage of the 1 million Naira will be set apart as seed money for an health insurance scheme which he intends to help guide the players union on how to set up and manage.
Finally Seyi Akinwunmi revealed that the event is going to be a yearly event and structures will be put in place to make it bigger and better going forward, Urging Corporate Nigeria and well meaning individuals to come onboard.
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