{"id":55312,"date":"2024-10-23T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dikko-appointed-national-sports-commission-chairman\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:02:31","slug":"dikko-appointed-national-sports-commission-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dikko-appointed-national-sports-commission-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dikko appointed National Sports Commission chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Shehu Dikko has been appointed chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu announced the scrapping of the Ministry of Sports Development on Wednesday, replacing it with the NSC.<\/p>\n<p>Dikko became a popular figure during his stint as Chairman of the League Management Committee (LMC).<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian top-flight witnessed massive development during his stint as LMC boss.<\/p>\n<p>The erudite sports administrator also worked as a consultant to the House of Representatives Sports Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The NSC, which had previously been dissolved, is now tasked with overseeing the country\u2019s sports policies and administration, a role last undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Sports Development.<\/p>\n<p>Dikko appointed National Sports Commission chairman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehu Dikko has been appointed chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), DAILY POST reports. President Bola Tinubu announced the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25506,25507,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dikko","category-national-sports-commission","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}