The newly appointed commissioner for Youth and Sports, Enugu state, Honorable Lloyd Ekweremadu, has said that the season of the positive turnaround has come for the ‘Flying Antelopes’, Rangers International F.C.
Ekweremadu made this pronouncement during a visit to players and officials of the club at the players’ residential camp, Nkponkiti, Independence Layout, Enugu, Thursday, August 31, 2023, to familiarize himself with the team as they departed the coal city for a close-camping exercise in Awka, Anambra state.
He praised the management, coaches, players, and other backroom staff of the club for all they have been doing to ensure that the club maintains its top status in the football club committee while aspiring to enhance its marketability in the corporate world.
“Regarding the welfare of the team, the ministry is in talks with the new G.M/CEO who is fantastic on the job and I believe that what he is coming up with will take the club to the level it rightly belongs. Soon, a number of partners and sponsors would be unveiled to ensure that Rangers is truly celebrated as an international brand,” stated the youthful commissioner.
He promised the team that with the government’s arrangement with the contractor handling the rehabilitation of the playing turf of Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, the team shall play most of its home games in the fast approaching NPFL 2023/2024, at ‘The Cathedral’.
In a brief remark while welcoming the commissioner on behalf of the G.M/CEO, Barrister Amobi Ezeaku, Administrative Secretary of Rangers, Barrister Ferdinand Ugwuarua, congratulated the new commissioner for his appointment while appealing for support from the ministry to help it overcome some challenges being faced in the running of the club.
On the commissioner’s entourage was the Director, Organizing in the ministry, Bonny Onovo, and other staff.
