{"id":230885,"date":"2026-06-06T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230885"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:56:33","slug":"who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230885","title":{"rendered":"Who is Samson Adamu? Inside Nigeria\u2019s first-ever CAF General Secretary appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Samson Adamu has stepped into one of the most powerful administrative roles in continental football after being named Acting General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football, Soccernet.ng reports. The appointment, confirmed on Sunday, follows the resignation of V\u00e9ron Mosengo-Omba and signals a major leadership shift at the Cairo-based organisation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2026\/03\/samson-adamu-nigeria-caf-general-secretar.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Samson Adamu has stepped into one of the most powerful administrative roles in continental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment.jpeg",1280,952,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-300x223.jpeg",300,223,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-768x571.jpeg",640,476,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-1024x762.jpeg",640,476,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment.jpeg",1280,952,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment.jpeg",1280,952,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-1024x762.jpeg",1024,762,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230885-who-is-samson-adamu-inside-nigerias-first-ever-caf-general-secretary-appointment-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230885","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=230885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}