By Danusa Ocholi
Nigeria’s foremost secondary school/football academy and national Principal’s Cup title holders, FOSLA Academy Karshi- Abuja ‘ are opening up to Nigerians , interested groups and organisations to partner with them to meet up with their academic and other commitments.
Proprietor and founder of the school, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi disclosed this at the presentation of a white paper on the restructuring of the school and the FOSLA Group as a whole by the committee set up for this purpose last September under the leadership of a renowned administrator, Alhaji Abdullahi A. Ndanusa. At a meeting of the school’s stakeholders in Abuja on Saturday September 28,Alhaji Sani Lulu ,a former president of Nigerian Football Federation[NFF] said the ambitious expansion programmes of the school established 12 years ago, under a challenging economy have made it expedient to call on Nigerians to team up with him to ensure that the FOSLA dream is sustained and taken to a greater height . Towards this end, about N10b will be required to complete some projects being undertaken by the school like the ultra modern stadium’ hostels, farms, among others to make the institution live up to its lofty national and international standard and reputation. As part of the restructuring of the Academy, school fees will be reviewed from N735,,000.00 to N950,000..00 per per annum to cater for inflation and market prices.
Alhaji Lulu added that consultants will be appointed to work out modalities for the restructuring of not only the Academy but the FOSLA Football Club as well as Inikpi Security all in the FOSLA Group. Under the restructuring announced by the former NFF president, FOSLA will partner with international and reputable clubs or agents for the marketing of FOSLA’s outstanding footballers.
“With this I am throwing FOSLA to the more than 200 million Nigerians to partner with me.It is now a Nigerian project, not only mine” he added.
Earlier, Chairman of the Restructuring Committee, Alhaji Abdullahi Ndanusa commended the FOSLA proprietor for steering the affairs of the school in the past 12 years, adding that “there is room for improvement, just like in every human endeavor.” He said with their recommendation, FOSLA Academy will be on the world map with the passage of time.
Director of Sports, Federal Capital Territory, Mr Lukas Istafanus hailed Alhaji Lulu for his tireless efforts in nurturing the project, and called on well-meaning Nigerians to key into the project by partnering with FOSLA to make it a PAN Nigerian project.
“FOSLA is now a property of all Nigerians” the Director of Sports declared.
