{"id":135985,"date":"2026-03-29T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/caf-appoints-nigerian-samson-adamu-as-the-acting-general-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:02:42","slug":"caf-appoints-nigerian-samson-adamu-as-the-acting-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/caf-appoints-nigerian-samson-adamu-as-the-acting-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF appoints Nigerian Samson Adamu, as the acting General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed seasoned Nigerian football administrator Samson Adamu as its Acting General Secretary following the resignation of  V\u00e9ron Mosengo-Omba on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced by CAF President Patrice Motsepe, represents a dramatic change in the organization that oversees African football.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over as Director of Competitions in 2018, he has overseen about 30  different African competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu is the son of Dr. Amos Adamu, a former member of the FIFA and CAF Executive Committees and an expert in sports administration.<\/p>\n<p>His permanent status in the role is expected to be discussed at the next CAF General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/caf-appoints-nigerian-samson-adamu-as-the-acting-general-secretary\/\">CAF appoints Nigerian Samson Adamu, as the acting General Secretary<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed seasoned Nigerian football administrator Samson Adamu as its Acting General Secretary following the resignation of V\u00e9ron Mosengo-Omba on Sunday. The decision, announced by CAF President Patrice Motsepe, represents a dramatic change in the organization that oversees African football. Since taking over as Director of Competitions in 2018, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}