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NFF Appoints Big Brother Naija’s Ozo Super Falcons’ Ambassador

Big Brother Naija Housemate in Season 5 of the reality show Ozoemena Chukwu has been unveiled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the Team Ambassador of Nigeria’s women’s football national team, the Super Falcons ahead of the 2022 CAF Africa Women’s Cup of Nations in Morocco reports Prime Business Africa.

Ozoemena is a passionate football enthusiast and currently curates sports shows on television and radio.

Ozoemena simply known as ‘Ozo’ whilst in the Big Brother Naija house undertook a UEFA course in football administration before the show produced by Multichoice and has repeatedly stated that he aspires to be the President of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA).

Ozoemena relished in snapping pictures with the Super Falcons players who on Tuesday arrived in Morocco ahead of the AWCON.

Nigeria will begin their campaign at the 2022 AWCON with a testy clash with South Africa on Monday, July 4.

Super Falcons are one of the challengers for the title with the South African government promising 10m Rands to the team should they dethrone African queens Nigeria.

Nigeria are nine-time champions of the tournament from 11 editions.

The Africa Women’s Cup of Nations serves as qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia with four African countries (semifinalists) representing the continent.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.