According to the Minister; the late NFA boss was a great administrator and a fine gentlemen.
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He was 60 years of age.
This was contained in a statement by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Gabriel Aduda, on Sunday.
“The Executive Committee reviewed the outing of the Super Eagles at the recently –concluded 4th African Nations Championship and the events that followed, and rebuked Coach Sunday Oliseh for his unwarranted statements unbecoming of a national team coach in both regular and social media. While acknowledging his apology, the Executive Committee made it clear that similar infractions would not be tolerated in future,” the communiqué reads
The contract signing was later put on hold after the NFF board demanded an apology from Keshi for being reported to have called the association’s Chairman, Amaju Pinnick, a “liar
“Because the difference between an arbitration tribunal and election appeals committee is that in election appeals committee, non-lawyers can be elected by the congress to seat over judicial matters and cause the kind of confusion we witnessed in their sitting
The duo flew aboard a South African Airways aircraft from Lagos to Johannesburg and scheduled to connect another South African Airways flight from Johannesburg to the Hosea Kutako International Airport, Windhoek on Saturday morning
The Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Federation, Musa Amadu, has written the world football governing body, FIFA, intimating it of the latest development in the country’s football house.
The Super Eagles are billed to take on their French counterparts on Monday in the Round of 16 of at the Mundial
Should he be picked for the match by Coach Stephen Keshi, it would be Yobo’s 101th senior cap for Nigeria, since he featured against Zambia in Chingola in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match that ended 1-1 on March 24, 2001
Instead of Nigeria’s flag, the Republic of Niger’s flag was projected at the middle of the pitch during the event
The Proprietor of the club, Chris Giwa, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone on Wednesday in Abuja
The bus conveying the Nembe team to Jos for the game had broken down in Enugu and made it impossible for the club to honour the match
NFA’s General Secretary, Barrister Musa Amadu, disclosed that the Association is in possession of a number of such forged letters sent to the Embassy of Brazil by some scamsters with intent of securing entry visas into that country for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals
Also summoned is the leadership of the Nigeria Football Association.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Sports, Hon. Godfrey Gaiya, announced this to newsmen after the committee’s budget defence meeting in Abuja
He said only the Nigeria Football Association had the right to terminate the existence of the LMC
He said that he would take the necessary steps to seek redress regarding his purported ban
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
The statement quoted the Acting General-Secretary, Emmanuel Ikpeme, as saying that the committee made the recommendation, pending the ratification of the NFA Executive Committee
According to Sanusi, the first round of matches tagged: “Round of 64”, will be staggered between June 11 and June 26 across different venues in the country