He may not be well known as he headed the administration of the Nigerian football governing body in the ‘ancient past’.
At a time, it was even a subject of debate if he was ever a general secretary at the then Nigeria Football Association as his name was conspicuously missing on the board at NFF Secretariat, which listed past administrators.
Herbert Omokhaye, who hails from Otuo Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State was the secretary of the NFA from 1964 to 1965 when he was seconded to the association from the just established National Sports Council (NSC), which transformed into National Sports Commission in 1970.
Omokhaye clocked 86 yesterday as the oldest former scribe of Nigerian football still alive.
From Nigeria’s files in the archives of FIFA, it was Omokhaye that responded to correspondence from the world body regarding a…
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