Zubairu scores Nigeria’s league high

Sani Zubairu, Head of Referees Unit, Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday said the country’s league had improved satisfactorily.
Zubairu, who made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said that clubs could now win matches away as well as lose at home.
He said the federation would continue to promote football in line with global best practices.
The NFF board member described the country’s football leagues as one of the best in Africa as demonstrated in the just-concluded Championship of African Nations in Morocco.
He said: “That we lost in the final against Morocco does not mean our league is inferior.
“Our league has been tested in many ways before now; remember Nigerian clubs had won CAF Champions League Cup and CAF Champions League more than two times.’’
NAN reports that Nigeria’s Enyimba FC of Aba was the first club to win the CAF Champions League Cup, winning it back to back in 2003 and 2004.
Zubairu urged total support for Nigeria’s Leagues, which he decribed as stronger and better.
He said that he was optimistic of a stronger and better Nigerian Leagues capable of competing in greater leagues in the world with the collective support of all.
NAN reports that Nigeria’s Professional League, which started on January 14, would end on September 30.