Daily Independent (Lagos)
26 June 2011
The Female Football Foundation (FFF) has concluded plans to stage a one-day walk for the Super Falcons currently taking part in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany.
The walk, meant to create awareness over the plight of female football in the country takes off at Planet One bus stop, Maryland by 9.30 am. The Maryland team will join the second team of the walkers at Ikeja bus stop which will both join the third batch of walkers at the Renaisance Hotel, Agidingbi before terminating at the Lagos State governors office, Alausa.
According to the founder of the Foundation, Mrs. Barong Tony-Uranta, the walk is the second stage of the foundation desire to create awareness over the plight of female footballers in the country, saying, “we want to improve the lot of female footballers in the country, especially those playing in the national teams.”
“Female players have not gotten the sort of encouragement they deserve despite dominating African football. A team that has won six of the seven African Women’s Nations Cups deserves more than what it is presently getting in term of allowances among others. The female players have never be given national award nor given houses like their male counterpart. These are some of the issues we want to bring to the front burner. We want Nigerians to know that their heroines have not be well treated and that something must be done in this regard,” she said.
Some eminent Nigerians, according to her will be part of the walk naming Ambassador Segun Olusola, Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Merga Party, Pat Utomi, Jimi Agabaje, Amata Agatha, Fola Adeola, Ireti Doylce and former board member of the Nigeria Football Association, Princess Bola Jegede.
Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, will address the walkers on his birthday.
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