World football-governing body, FIFA, provided the fund for the upgrading and furnishing of the facility in the Bauchi State capital, which groundbreaking ceremony was done during the tenure of Alhaji Aminu Maigari-led NFF Executive Board.
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At the polls conducted by the NFF Electoral Committee in Katsina, Pinnick swept aside three other contestants, polling 34 votes.
Amaju Pinnick has been re-elected as President of the Nigeria Football Federation.
The election, conducted in Katsina, saw Pinnick defeat his rivals by 34 votes to their eight and two.
Among the candidates vying for the president of the NFF includes incumbent, Amaju Pinnick, who is also the 1st Vice President of CAF, and member of the Organizing Committee for FIFA Competitions, a statement by Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications said.
Amaju Pinnick on Tuesday failed to stop Chris Giwa from operating in the Glass House as NFF President following the inability of his counsel to raise a motion challenging the Jos Federal High Court’s ex-parte order which installed Giwa in office.
Justice Kurya had,on June 5, given an ex-parte order to Mr Chris Giwa to take over mantle of leadership of the NFF in a case between Yahaya Adama and Aminu Maigari.
Maigari made the commendation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Bauchi.
It was learnt Amaju is already aware of the plot as he had been presented with the impeachment grounds
The Federal Government, Fifa and Caf have all recognised the Pinnick board
On the contempt charge against the immediate past NFF President, Aminu Maigari, and General Secretary, Barrister Musa Amadu, Justice Allagoa set it aside but warned that the orders of the court must not be disobeyed in future
Maigari and three others were dragged to court for flouting the orders of the court.
Yahaya Adamu, a football stakeholder, and three others on September 19 obtained an interim injunction retraining Maigari, the NFF, and State Football Associations from conducting fresh election to replace the executive led by Chris Giwa
The congress and elections were almost marred as the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Sampson Ebonhe, was earlier in the day arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service
Ebonhe was arrested on Tuesday morning in Warri, Delta State, venue of the election
The Eagle Online gathered that operatives of the Department of State Service were at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja in search of the Kaduna State-born football administrator
The notice, with an inscription: “Notice of consequences of disobedience to order of court,” warned the defendants that they risked imprisonment if the disobeyed the court order
The Plaintiffs are seeking the enforcement of their fundamental human rights
They also heaped encomiums on the Nigeria media for standing by the truth and clearly supporting what is just in the thick of the recent crisis
A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has granted an interim injunction, restraining Aminu Maigari and others from parading themselves as Executive Committee members of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Following the decision by the FIFA Emergency Committee, FIFA has today, 3rd September 2014, sent a letter to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirming that the NFF will be suspended with immediate effect should there still be persons claiming to have been elected to NFF positions on 26th August 2014 and occupying their offices on Monday, 8th September 2014 at 08.00 (Central European Time)