Come To Our Aid: FFCN President, Ambassador Oluwakemi Ogunfuwa, Begs Federal Government, Ministry Of Sports, Foreign Affairs To Intervene On Visa Denial Saga

It’s a identified undeniable fact that Soccer and Followers everywhere in the world, notably in Nigeria are like seismic twins. However, the scenario on the ongoing FIFA Ladies’s World Cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand cooks a bitter style.

The members and executives of Soccer Followers Membership of Nigeria, FFCN who had spent a lot in shopping for match tickets, Visa charges and met all necessities however being denied visas won’t cease calling properly which means Nigerians to come back to their help.

That is the cry of 2018 CAF Award successful Followers Membership on the Press Convention held in Lagos whereby they appealed to essential stakeholders to assist them safe Visas or have their cash refunded.

Addressing the journalist, the First African Girl to vanguard a Supporters Membership in Africa mentioned:

“We now have been pushed to the wall by the authority of Australian Embassy on the efforts to safe Visas to the continued FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and we’re passionately interesting to the federal authorities , Ministry of Sports activities and Overseas Affairs to come back to our help to refund our cash or grant us visas.”

Mama Nigeria as Ogunfuwa is fondly known as reiterated efforts made and mentioned that: “We did Biometrics and paid for Visa charges, we purchased tickets and the embassy is but to grant us visas. We now have spent a lot cash please. That is the primary time we’d be experiencing this as we use to maneuver to different a part of the world in main competitions like this seamlessly however this Australia is demoralising”

Chairman, Niger State Chapter, Sulaiman Isah lamented that they’ve been dissatisfied with the excessive handedness of Australian Embassy on this visa .Saga . “What we went by way of in the previous couple of months is terrible.I believe the Australian Embassy Authority needs to be investigated and known as to order. It’s demoralising to say the least as this has by no means occurred to us having been to completely different components of the world “.

Corroborating that is Jadesola Adelabu calling stakeholders to rally spherical Supporters Golf equipment to get issues carried out for his or her members. In her phrases: It’s time the stakeholders got here to the help of the Supporters Golf equipment to get issues proper and save them from the current monetary scenario. They need to guarantee they keep away from future incidence please.”.

The President of the main Supporters membership subsequently advised that the Australian Embassy ought to refund their cash if they don’t seem to be going to grant visas to their members.

“It is a clarion name to properly which means Nigerians to please help us on this matter .We need to unequivocally enchantment that if they don’t seem to be going to offer us Visas, they need to refund our cash. If the tickets should not going for use, they need to please refund us. We now have no sponsors for this journey as all of us used our private cash. Lagos based mostly Enterprise tycoon pleaded

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