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African Hockey Cup for Club Champions postponed  x5
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April 8, 2004
GhanaWeb, Ghana
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Uncertainty looms over Nigeria's hosting of the African Hockey Cup for Club Champions (ACCC) set to open on April 23 due to non-release of funds by the Nigerian federal government.
The Nigeria Hockey Federation (NHF) was still awaiting release of about five million naira (about 37,000 US dollars) approved for the competition, an NHF official said Thursday in the capital Abuja on condition of anonymity.
However, Nigeria's Sports Minister Musa Mohammed told reportersat a press conference same day in Abuja that the delay was due to a late submission of financial request by the NHF.
"We have approved some amount for them, but even the NHF is notserious, because some of the countries that are supposed to participate have not shown enough interest," he said.
"You can't come up with a program and suddenly expect the ministry to give you money. It's never done because we operate on budgets," he added.
The minister explained that the ministry's procedure required sports associations to submit budgets of their programs ahead of the slated period.
He, however, called on all associations to comply with the procedure and, in addition, to always seek alternative sources of sponsorship of their programs, particularly in the private sector.
According to the NHF, five countries -- South Africa, Egypt, Malawi, Algeria and Ghana -- have confirmed their participation inthe tournament which will feature 15 teams in both male and femalecategories.
Nigeria, which participated in the last three editions of the tournament, will send four teams, two male and female teams apiece.
Egypt is the defending champion of the tournament.
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Decent Team but no Country
04-11-2004 8:26 am
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I am not surprised at this at all since the Ministry has to be involved and really 35,000 must go into their pockets, who cares about Hockey.
this could only happen in Nigeria and they want to hold Olympics. CUT THE CORRUPT OFFICIALS OUT, BRING IN NON CORRUPT GOVT.
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player
04-13-2004 7:14 pm
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when
if it is true that the club championship is been postponed please inform us when it will be and where so that we know what to do then as we have been reallly training. we have to know the venue so that we can also make our plans as we have other things or work to do.
so please please send us the details on this site.
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greg
04-21-2004 11:55 pm
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ACCC 2004
let the hosting of the ACCC 2004, be shifted to the second bider ie, Egypt who can convienetly host Africa.
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stedy
04-24-2004 2:34 am
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SHIFT OF THE ACCC
i want to advice the AHF whom i know is contrl of the championship to l think twice in shiftting the tournament from nigeria why ,i am very much sure that nigeria is not compitent enough to host the championship .nigeria being a country that should be happy tht a tournament which they have not hold before and now they are not chalant about the whole thing ,pls and pls i think nigeria is not compitent to host it .it should be given to the secnd bidder which i know is very much compitent to host it ,if my advice is considered it will go a long way .thanks ...............SPORTS ANALYST
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Sam
04-28-2004 5:18 am
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ACCC-Hockey
I sincerely believe AfHF should give Nigeria a second chance to host the games b'cos any change in venue could result in some Teams from West Africa redrawing from the competition.
I'm wondering why it is taking the AfHF a long time to confirm the proposed date by Nigeria Hockey Federation . Not only have they succeeded in keeping the Teams in suspense but also depleting the already depleted ressource of the Teams.
The best time for most if not all the Teams is in May or latest 1st week in June. otherwise AfHF should forget about the organising the competition yhis year.
The AfHF should please come out with the new date and stop keeping uu in suspense.
Thank you
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