A statement by the body, made available to newsmen in Lagos, said that necessary steps were being taken to ensure a hitch-free kick-off of the league
Browsing: Emeka Inyama
The member, Emeka Inyama, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Umuahia, Abia State, that the association had no plan to interfere with the job of the coaching crew
After a meeting with the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, in Abuja on Thursday, Inyama disclosed that an agreement has been reached to move the kick-off date by three weeks
The statement by the league’s Media Officer, Harry Awurumibe, reminded the participating clubs to complete their registration before the kick off date, adding that there would be no postponement
The statement said the decision was taken in the interest of football and the teeming youths of Ekiti State who should not be denied access to the playing facility due to no fault of thei
“With the results they put up during the qualifiers and the African Championship, followed up with the rigorous two weeks training session they had when they camped at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai, they are sure to do well
Inyama, who is also an Executive Board Member of the Nigeria Football Federation, revealed that the league will see an improvement in organization, management and prosecution of the competition because of the many innovations to be introduced in the new season
The Chairman of NNL, High Chief Emeka Inyama, who disclosed this to the press in Abuja, also said Nigeria Premiership League top referees will take charge of the matches while independent assessors will be deployed to match venues to monitor the performances of the officiating officials and conducts of the players, coaching crew and fans
Hear Inyama, who is also the Chairman of the NFF Media Committee: “Somebody simply pointed at me and said the bib I was wearing contains juju and before you know it, they had swooped on me and beaten me to a pulp and took me for dead. Only the timely intervention of the then Nigerian Ambassador in Cote D’Ivoire saved my life
Inyama said that if the Nigerian leagues are to be transformed and function well the men of the whistle should have a change of behaviour and rescue the league by shunning bribes from club officials and officiate well
Inyama confirmed that the supporters club of Plateau United FC and
Giwa FC have been find N300,000 each for infringing on the rules
“We have recorded increasing crowd violence especially in the North;
Match officials are assaulted and encroachment into the field of
play”, be bemoaned
“The referees are not helping the league at all and we have been speaking with their Organising Committee and we will punish severely any referee trying to drag the name of the league in the mud,” the chairman said
The Super Eagles were successful in the qualifying race for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and eventually travelled to South Africa to
triumph at the finals
There was a report in an online publication claiming that there is crisis in the Football House as a result of the President of the NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, and the Technical Committee Chairman, who is also a Board member, Barrister Christopher Green, running the football Federation all alone
The NFF Executive Committee member noted that the present administration is the first to stick to indigenous coaches for all the national teams, for which it has received praise several times at home and abroad
Competent sources in Abuja quoted Emeka Inyama, Head of the Media Committee of the NFF, as saying that the committee lacks the power to cut Keshi’s pay
“We are delighted with this deal because the Nigeria National League had never had an official insurer and for us to have such a mouth-watering agreement speaks volume of the confidence that Corporate Nigeria now has in the NNL, a direct result of the hard work, innovation and transparency that we have brought on board
The Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee, Chief Emeka Inyama, said at the weekend that the Federation had not bothered to dignify the insinuations with any response before now as it considered those rumours to be of such low quality undeserving of any attention
A board member of there NFF and Chairman of its Media and Publicity Committee, High Chief Emeka Inyama, said this on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen