The minister of women affairs and social development, Dame Pauline Tallen, has presented an award of excellence to the Association of Former Female Athletes
“We constructed the first netball court in the FCT. We organised the first netball competition in FCT and some of our members are part of the Nigerian Netball Federation and the Council of Sports have successfully proven netball to be a social sport during the festival. We have teams that are preparing right now that will go for demonstration sport,” AFFAN boss stated.
The vice president of the association, Air Commodore Rahinatu Garba , added that AFFAN is set to give back to the society and impart in the younger athletes to be role models. “Netball was played in Nigeria in the seventies after basketball’s introduction in the country. We took it upon ourselves as athletes to commit our resources, time and everything to get at least two teams of netballers and we have been training them for the past six months until about a month ago that we stopped training them.