Former Super Eagles’ media officer, Toyin Ibitoye has been appointed as the new special assistant on multimedia to the sports minister, Sunday Akinlabi Dare, megasportsaena.com gathered.
Megasportsarena.com gathered that the appointment, which comes less than a year after Ibitoye left his long-standing post as Eagles’ spokesman, comes in recognition of his wealth of experience as a sports writer and broadcaster.
Among the values Ibitoye flaunts is his expertise in presenting a daily sports programme on Channels Television , as well as his status as executive producer of a broadcast and marketing company based in Lagos.
Ibitoye, who was press officer of the Super Eagles from 2015 to 2020, is also currently a member of the media committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Apart from a BSc from University of Ibadan, Ibitoye also holds a FIFA/CIES Sports Management post graduate diploma from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
A recent citation for Ibitoye by the president/CEO of HotSports Nigeria Ltd & HS Studios, Taye Ige stated: “We all know how difficult access to the national team camp can sometimes be. This became significantly easy for us to achieve under your watch, making both our editorial and marketing activation responsibilities much easier to carry out.
“It has thus been a privilege working with you and now it’s an honour to celebrate the legacy of hard work and exceptional dedication to duty you have left behind for your successor.
“Secondly, that the Super Eagles largely delighted us with good results on the field of play during your tenure, qualifying for both the AFCON and the FIFA World Cup finals in grand style (in some cases two matches ahead) is also evidently traceable to the quality of “technical assistance” you afforded the team’s chief coach, Mr. Gernot Rohr.
“It is not for nothing that, in informed circles, Toyin, you were known as the de facto assistant to the national coach as you were reputed to put at his disposal your awesomely rich knowledge of Nigerian players, their current status in their various clubs both home and abroad as well as advise him on the best formations to adopt based on options of players available at any given time.”
