{"id":161436,"date":"2015-10-22T06:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161436"},"modified":"2015-10-22T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T06:35:40","slug":"fifa-investigates-nigerian-amos-adamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=161436","title":{"rendered":"Fifa investigates Nigerian Amos Adamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigerian Amos Adamu is under investigation by Fifa&#8217;s ethics committee, football&#8217;s world governing body revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adamu is alleged to have breached Fifa&#8217;s code of ethics but no further details were provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know (about the investigation),&#8221; Adamu told BBC Sport. &#8220;I&#8217;m not even aware of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 62-year-old also said he had not been contacted by the Ethics Committee about the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adamu was a member of Fifa&#8217;s executive committee for four years until 2010, when he was banned from all football activity for three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was banned over claims he asked for money in exchange for World Cup votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adamu&#8217;s suspension expired in October 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was a high-ranking government official for Nigerian sport for 20 years and was once considered to be a leading candidate to succeed long-serving Issa Hayatou as president of the Confederation of African Football.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Amos Adamu is under investigation by Fifa&#8217;s ethics committee, football&#8217;s world governing body revealed on Wednesday. Adamu is alleged to have breached Fifa&#8217;s code of ethics but no further details were provided. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know (about the investigation),&#8221; Adamu told BBC Sport. &#8220;I&#8217;m not even aware of it.&#8221; The 62-year-old also said he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":161437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,38],"class_list":["post-161436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}