Asisat Oshoala Foundation Ventures Into Boy-Child Events, As Noah Dallaji Partners To Sponsor Para Soccer Games In Lagos

Before now, Asisat Oshoala Foundation mainly focused on the empowerment of girl-child through sports and education as part of the relentless effort of the Captain of Nigeria’s Super Falcons, Asisat Oshoala to give back to the society that made her.

While doing this, some Nigerians, who valued what she is doing, are noticing what she doing to elevate the suffering of the girl -child, but she is about incorporating the affairs of boy-child into the activities of her foundation courtesy of the philanthropic support she just received from Engr. Noah Dallaji, the founder of African Children’s Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF) who is partnering with Asisat Oshoala Foundation, to take the activities of the two foundations to the next level.

P.M. EXPRESS can report that, In conjunction with African Children’s Talent Discovery Foundation, a Noah Dallaji & Asisat Oshoala Para Soccer Championship and Girls Football Tournament will begin on Friday, 16 July, 2021 and ends on Monday, 19 July, 2021 at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The para soccer event will be an all-male event .

Speaking during a media conference at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos on Thursday to herald the competition, Dallaji said the ACTDF shares similar ideology with Asisat Oshoala Foundation. He said his foundation is poised to creating a structured platform in the country to afford talented youths the opportunity to realise their goals in life.

According to him, the ACTDF is into talent discovery and creating enabling environment to groom the talent discovered. He disclosed that just like Asisat Oshoala is using her foundation to further the cause of humanity in term of alleviating the plight of girl-child in the Nigerian society though sports and education, the ACTDF also realized that the game of soccer is a major means of developing the talents of youths in the country.

“We both believe in the Nigeria Project and we will do all with on our power to make it work by giving our support to the cause of the Nigerian youths.

“When Asisat approached us, I was so glad that we can have a young girl who has the love of the youths in her heart. Her focus is the girl-child, but I told her that she should not to be seen as being gender based, she should be opened. So, I advised her that we would incorporate male issues into her foundation as a way of taking a step forward in reaching out to all Nigerian youths,” said the philanthropist per excellence, who was born in the quiet but rurally endowed village of Wumo, Dull ward , Bulla District in Tafawa Balewa local government of Bauchi State.

Dallaji revealed that the partnership has given birth to Noah Dallaji & Asisat Oshoala Para Soccer Championship and Girls Football Tournament which first edition this weekend at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

He said the essence of this twin-tournament is to “give our physically challenged people that sense of belonging that they are not forgotten in the society.

“You will be surprised that there is ability in disability among this set of people in our society. That is why we want to assemble them so that they can use the platform to exhibit their God-given talent in football for four days in Lagos. At the end of the competition, we will give them the most important thing in their life, which is wheelchair, and some other gifts during the final ceremony on Monday,” he said.

An elated Barcelona Femeni star Oshoala said Engr. Noah Dallaji opened her eyes to see the need to incorporate boy-child in her foundation’s programme, hence the decision to organize the para soccer tournament in Lagos.

“This championship is put together within 24 hours of my meeting with our daddy, Engr. Noah Dallaji. I also shared in the vision he has for our male folk. He knows what we are doing and he quickly bought into it,” Oshoala said.