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Family and friends of Enugu Rangers International FC Player, Emeka Eze joined him on the occasion of the presentation of the Glo Premier League Wonder Goal Award at the Nnamdi Stadium at which he thanked the family for supporting his career and the League Management Company (LMC) for innovations in the league.

The League Management Company (LMC) has announced that Glo Premier League fixtures will resume this weekend following the return of members of the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) that had withdrawn their services in response to the uncertainties that trailed the Annual General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ambassador Chris Giwa, said in a statement: “It has come to our notice that the League Management Company has been issuing notices to clubs in the Premier League that matches are being suspended from this weekend

The NRA action has been predicated by the crisis in the NFF, which culminated in the prevention of its key officials from attending the General Congress through the arrest and detention of the President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari; the General Secretary, Barrister Musa Ahmadu; and the Chairman of the Technical Committee, Barrister Chris Green

The Wonder Goals Project is a social media interactive scheme that aims to encourage community-based engagement by the clubs, showcase the video of goals scored by players in the Glo Premier League and also to recognize the circumstance, collective and individual qualities that produced some of the goals

The Chief Operating Officer of the LMC, Salihu Abubakar, who disclosed this, also announced that the three clubs – Kano Pillars, Abia Warriors and Bayelsa United – that were earlier certified to have met the proof of compliance have now been paid the second installment of the Basic Award

In the new adjustment, Match Day 20 games originally scheduled for July 20 has been moved by one week to July 27, while Match Day 21 games that would have been played on July 27 will now be on the midweek of August 6

“It has variously been reported that some of you have arbitrarily terminated Players’ contracts, some have unilaterally changed and imposed new contract terms on Players, and some have failed to pay the stipulated Player’s remuneration with the result that Players are owed several months in arrears

The scheme, christened the Elite Players Project, was explained in detail to the 20 Premier League Clubs in a circular signed by Salihu Abubakar, the LMC Chief Operating Officer, and listed the major objective to include the improvement of professionalism in the NPFL by permitting clubs to register a maximum of two ex-international players in addition to the maximum 35 allowed in a season