Covid-19: NFF To Distribute Yams To Nigerians – Pinnick

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and former Vice-President of CAF, Amaju Pinnick on Monday has said that the federation will distribute tuber of yam to Nigerians as palliative measure to encourage citizens stay at home during the lockdown brought about by the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Pinnick responding to newsmen, when  asked what the federation was doing to support the poor Nigerians during this lockdown, said: “We are doing quite a lot, we are going to support some of these centers (Nigerians) with tubers of yam, we have to do this at this hard period.”

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