{"id":196548,"date":"2025-12-07T07:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196548"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:16:56","slug":"corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196548","title":{"rendered":"Corruption, sabotage crippled Nigerian football reforms during Buhari era \u2013 Ex-minister laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former minister of youth and sports development, Solomon Dalung, says entrenched corruption and internal sabotage frustrated efforts to reform Nigerian football during his tenure. Dalung made the claims in a detailed statement reflecting on his time in office between 2015 and 2019. He said he was widely dismissed as a \u201cnovice\u201d when he assumed \u2026<br \/>\nThe article was originally published on Politics Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former minister of youth and sports development, Solomon Dalung, says entrenched corruption and internal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments.jpg",2048,1426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-300x209.jpg",300,209,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-768x535.jpg",640,446,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-1024x713.jpg",640,446,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-1536x1070.jpg",1536,1070,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments.jpg",2048,1426,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-1024x713.jpg",1024,713,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196548-corruption-sabotage-crippled-nigerian-football-reforms-during-buhari-era-ex-minister-laments-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}