- Says the Anglican Football Academy has taken off
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) is set to take Nigerian football by storm by raising a strong club side that will compete at the highest level in the country.
Primate of the Church, the Most Rev Henry Ndukuba who dropped this hint in Abuja at the ongoing 2022 Divine Commonwealth Conference (DIVCON) said it was part of the Church’s efforts to empower the youths of the Communion.
He announced that Church’s football academy has taken off as part of the measures to sustain the proposed football club.
“The Anglican Football Academy has also started. We have directed the Dioceses and Provinces to conduct football matches and identify talented young people who will form our CON Football Club that can compete anywhere in the world”, Ndukuba announced.
Other effort by the CON to better the lots of its young ones was the recently concluded “Joshua Generation Skill Acquisition Programme where “about 65 young people in our church have been trained and commissioned in Theatre/Film industries. If we do not invest in our youth now, however costly, they will not be committed tomorrow.
“The third edition of the Joshua Generation International Youth Conference (JGIYC) will hold from 10th to 15th April, 2023”, Primate Ndukuba stated.
He announced the launching of a N5 billion Mission Trust Fund to enable the Church execute its proposed Anglican University of Technology to be located in Kwaita, Abuja and other church endeavours in Mission works, Education, Communications, etc.
