Alhaji Gusau was elected Friday at the NFF’s 78th Elective Congress holding in Benin, the Edo State capital
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Dikko made this known on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos after the AFCON 2023 Qualifier between the Super Eagles and the Central Africans.
LMC Chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko Friday said the important details of the sponsorship will be signed and made public in Lagos next week.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who fixed the date, said he would hear the motion on notice in the next adjourned date.
Pinnick, who insisted that everything legal and acceptable is being done for Nigeria to achieve victory, spoke on Wednesday.
This was in the opening encounter of the Nigerian Professional Football League for the 2021-2022 season on Friday.
Nigeria Professional Football League stakeholders and fans have been urged to discountenance a fake news that suggested that the suspended 2019/20 season would be concluded in China.
The Chairman of the League Management Company, Shehu Dikko, has expressed shock at the accident involving players of Rangers International on Sunday morning, killing one.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has called for proper and regular training for Nigerian coaches in order to fast track sports development in the country.
The new date is being backed by the conduct of the draw for the competition, held late on Monday in Abuja.
Photos as ICPC seizes houses of NFF chiefs
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, alongside his 2nd Vice President, Shehu Dikko, and General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, were on Monday at the Le Meridien Cairo Airport Hotel camp of the Super Eagles to ginger the players ahead of Wednesday’s third place match against Tunisia.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, and four other officials of the football governing body.
The Nigeria Football Federation has flatly denied owing players and officials of the senior women national team, Super Falcons, any money in the wake of reports earlier on Sunday that the Falcons were refusing to leave their hotel at the World Cup in France over pay dispute with the Federation.
Those dragged to court were the President, Amaju Pinnick; 1st Vice President, Seyi Akinwunmi; 2nd Vice President, Shehu Dikko; Member, Ahmed Fresh; and General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi).
In a 17-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/93/2019, filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, the money was said to have been paid by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association to the NFF as appearance fees in the group stage of the Russia 2018 World Cup
Top on the agenda was the activation of the new, robust contract signed by the two parties in Asaba, Delta State in November 2018, especially in the distribution of NIKE merchandise to ensure the products are available to consumers through several platforms across the country.
Headed by the 1st Vice President of NFF, Seyi Akinwunmi, the membership straddles the NFF Executive Committee, NFF Congress, technocrats, legal practitioners, political office holders, leading journalists and football stakeholders.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Pinnick-led NFF executive emerged from Thursday’s FIFA and sports ministry officials supervised elective congress held in Katsina State.
Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, said in a statement on Wednesday the inspection was an indication preparations have begun in earnest.