{"id":348182,"date":"2025-09-29T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348182"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:33:10","slug":"group-lauds-foundations-contribution-to-football-youth-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348182","title":{"rendered":"Group lauds Foundation\u2019s contribution to football, youth dev."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nathaniel Idowu Foundation\u00a0<\/a>is once again, on the spotlight for good reason and beaming the light on the activities of the foundation, is leading Nigeria sports group, the Friends of Nigeria Sports (FNS).<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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In a statement signed by Secretary General of FNS, Mrs. Adetoun Ogune, on behalf of the national coordinator, Chief Diprieye Thompson, the group was effusive in praises for the Nathaniel Idowu Foundation, noting how it has continued to contribute to the empowerment and development of youth and football in Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognise the immeasurable impacts, the activities of this foundation on the lives of over 4,000 youths and budding footballers in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State, where Chief Yemi Idowu constructed 19 pitches that includes 10, 5-aside fields and 8, 7-side pitches and one full size field at popular Maracana stadium, in the Tolu area of Ajegunle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must also say a big thank you to Chief Yemi Idowu and the Nathaniel Idowu Foundation for bringing renewed hope and of course, giving life to the hapless kids and youths at the grassroots level, who now believes that their future is bright.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe foundation also gives us an annual football retreat that features the likes of Super Eagles stars Wilfred Ndidi,\u00a0 Victor Osimhen, Frank Onyeka and many others have become permanently etched in the hearts of the highly impressionable kids, who have continued to be inspired and motivated by this event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese young boys and girls, not only get to see and meet their idols physically, they also get food, drinks, educational materials and other gifts from the foundation. This is immense and we say, thank you to the management of the foundation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nathaniel Idowu Foundation\u00a0is once again, on the spotlight for good reason and beaming the light on the activities of the foundation, is leading Nigeria sports group, the Friends of Nigeria Sports (FNS). In a statement signed by Secretary General of FNS, Mrs. Adetoun Ogune, on behalf of the national coordinator, Chief Diprieye Thompson, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":348184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348242,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348182\/revisions\/348242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}