Shehu Dikko was the only candidate out of the seven presidential aspirants that had not arrived and therefore did not participate in the debate held at the Golden Tulip Hotel
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The NFF General Secretary, Barrister Musa Amadu, disclosed that the NFF Congress will fashion out a roadmap that will usher in open, transparent and credible elections
The minister claimed that the resolutions reached during his meetings with the Aminu Maigari-led faction and the Mike Umeh-led faction of the NFF was that the elections will hold as scheduled on August 26
Umeh, who spoke with newsmen after inspecting the damaged secretariat, said the building must have been set on fire by some people who have “something to hide” at the Glass House
This was amid a mild drama as both Maigari and the Acting President of the NFF, Mike Umeh, who arrived at the NFF secretariat before his former boss, occupied the same office for several hours
The initial committee denied Umeh the opportunity to contest because he converted his intent form for the position of the vice president to the position of the president
The development is coming on the heels of another apparent face-off between the Executive Committee of the NFF under the leadership of its Acting Chairman, Mike Umeh, and world’s football governing body, FIFA
Umeh said the letter, which has been interpreted by the media to mean the restoration of Maigari to his position, was far from being so
The U-20 boys host their counterparts from Lesotho in a 2015 African Youth Championship qualifying series final round, first leg encounter at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Saturday, while the girls lock horns with New Zealand in the quarter finals of the 7th FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in Canada
The Amoni Biambo-led electoral committee had earlier on Wednesday disqualified Taiwo Ogunjobi, Segun Odegbami and Mike Umeh as chairmanship candidates
The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Amoni Biambo, who briefed newsmen on Wednesday, said the disqualification of Odegbami followed his failure to attach the receipt of his intent form to the form when he submitted it
As for Plateau State, the NFF was informed that at its Congress held on August 9, 2014, the entire Board of Plateau State Football Association was thrown overboard
Both previous clashes between Nigeria and England at the championship have ended in 1-1 draws.
This was first in Coquimbo, Chile on November 22, 2008 and then in Augsburg, Germany on July 14, 2010.
Rising from its executive board meeting on Thursday, the Mike Umeh-led NFF received the report of the Effiong Johnson-led sub-committee set up to review lengthy bans on prominent members of the Nigeria football family: Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi, Chief Rumson Baribote, Barrister Olaleye Adepoju, Jarrett Tenebe, Harrison Jalla, Ahmed Shuaibu-Gara, Chikelue Iloanusi and Olajide Fashikun
While Green bagged six months suspension, Fresh is to stay away from football activities for one year
Chief Mike Umeh, NFF’s Acting President, said on Tuesday in Abuja: “We have received phone calls, phone messages and emails, and there have been media reports of persons being denied forms for unclear reasons
Reports claimed that the NFF stalwart was quizzed by the DSS over a planned executive committee meeting to review niggling issues concerning the NFF polls and was also queried for trying to chair an executive committee meeting, which would have addressed some of these issues, including the failure of most aspirants to get nomination forms for the August 26 elections into the executive board
The group, which claimed to be the authentic one, led by the Acting Chairman of the NFF, Chief Mike Umeh, said the other group that met on Thursday was not duly recognised
The committee has one week to report back to the Executive Committee
The decisions to sack Maigari and appoint Umeh were taken at the of Executive Committee meeting in Abuja