Tag: Fabrizio Romano
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Gusau launches the NPFL’s IMC and calls for honesty in the Nigerian League.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau says it is incumbent on the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Professional Football League to imbue the nation’s elite domestic cadre with integrity, credibility and a firm hand on management and administration in order to turn things around for the better. Speaking at the…
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Governor Godwin Obaseki urges newly elected NFF Committee to be Transparent
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has urged the new Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, led by Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, to uphold the values of transparency, openness, and inclusivity in managing the national game. Addressing the Committee when they visited him in Benin City on Wednesday, he impressed it on them not be…
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Club Owners urges NFF to Inaugurate IMC
Club Owners have urged the Nigeria Football Federation to inaugurate the Interim Management Committee (IMC) set up by the Federal Government to run the Nigeria Professional Football League for a short tenure. This was one of the resolutions they took when they met with newly-elected NFF President Ibrahim Gusau on Monday in Abuja. The IMC…
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Egbe warns blackmailers not to come between Pinnick and Gusau
Ebi Egbe, a FIFA licensed match agent and expert in stadium facilities has cautioned people he has referred to as blackmailers not to sow discord between Amaju Melvin Pinnick and current NFF president Ibrahim Gusau. According to Egbe, he has read reports in which Amaju was cited as saying that Gusau would always run to…
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NFF seeks to cut cost to cushion the effect of debt
In a bid to reduce the effect of debts, the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is set to embark on a number of cost-cutting measures to keep the federation afloat. This was contained in a communique of the inaugural meeting of the new NFF Board led by Ibrahim Gusau held on…
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Gusau’s emergence as NFF president surprise Genort Rohr
Former Nigeria Head Coach Gernot Rohr has reacted to the emergence of Mr. Ibrahim Musa Gusau as NFF president. The German-Franco tactician was reported to have been surprised after Gusau was declared winner of the Nigeria Football Federation election which was held 30th September. “We heard that the ex-president (Pinnick) installed him (Gusau)……
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Pinnick officially hands over to Gusau
Former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick has formally handed to his successor, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau as new NFF president. Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau and his board can now officially kick start the process to making better football in Nigeria and preside over the affairs of the NFF for the…
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Sport Minister tasks new NFF boss to improve Nigeria football
The newly elected Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been given the duty of making football better in Nigeria at all levels by the honorable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare. Dare thanked the team for the visit, tasked to move the sport in the right direction and pledged the…
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Shehu Dikko hits back at ICPC for property confiscation
Following the seizure of the house of former Nigeria Football Federation vice president, Alh Shehu Dikko by the ICPC, the former has replied the anti-corruption agency. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had seized the former NFF big whip for corruption, stating that the value of the property in question…
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New NFF Board to hold peace talk with PFAN
The newly-elected board of the Nigeria Football Federation led by the president Ibrahim Gusau is set to hold reconciliatory talks with the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN). The PFAN had kicked against the election held on 30th September, taking the NFF to a Federal High Court, but the election had gone ahead following…
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Ikpeme likely to replace embattled Sanusi as NFF secretary
A new scribe of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in the person of Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme, may be appointed to replace Mohammed Sanusi, Nigeriasoccernet.com gathered. The news according to the Guardian newspaper comes after Sanusi was declared persona non grata by the Nigeria Sport Ministry a couple of days ago. It is said…
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Ikpeme in line to replace Sanusi as NFF Secretary General
There are strong indications that the Deputy Secretary in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme, may be appointed as the new scribe of the football federation today. The chairman of Zamfara Football Association, Ibrahim Gusau, emerged as the new NFF president last Friday in Benin City during the elective congress of the football…
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All set for NFF elections in Benin
The 78th Annual General Assembly of the NFF will hold on Friday in Benin City, capital of Edo State alongside elections of a new Executive Committee to steer the affairs of the nation’s supreme football ruling body for the next four years. The elections will commence after other items on the agenda for the…
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NFF Elections: Sport Ministry asks stakeholders to be calm and respect court order
The Federal Government has called on stakeholders in the Nigerian Football Family to remain calm and abide by the Court Order, by not doing anything or taking any further steps particularly, as regards the NFF elections scheduled for Friday, September 30, 2022 in Benin. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Alh.…
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Unceasing challenges taunting the growth of the Football League in Nigeria
For many years the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) have been ravaged with numerous challenges that have become a constantly feature season in, season out and one wonders when these bottlenecks will go away. With each passing day, the league has been caught in the web of growth-hinderers from players’ welfare, sub standard stadia,…
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NFF is not a registered body – PFAN to FIFA
The Professional Football Association of Nigeria (PFAN) has dispatched a letter to FIFA stating that: “As of today, the NFF is not a registered body and not known to the laws of the land (Nigeria) as in FIFA, where it is registered under the Swiss laws,” Nigeriasoccernet.com gathered. According to The Guardian, the letter to…
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NPFL compliance team inspects Elkanemi Warriors stadium
Ahead of the 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League (NFF) season, the compliance department of the NFF has visited the Elkanemi Stadium for inspection. This was revealed by the club’s media officer, Tahiru Bala who disclosed that a team of inspectors arrived Elkanemi Warriors Sports center Maiduguri on Friday to inspect the centre. The…
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Breaking! Police seal off LMC office
Reports reaching us at Nigeriasoccernet.com has it that members of the Nigeria Police Force on were seen on Thursday morning sealing off the Abuja office of the League Management Company (LMC). According to the report from BSN Sports, Not fewer than 20 Police men early this morning took over the office at No 20, Osun…
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NFF Elections: 11 aspirants cleared to contest for president, 2 disqualified
The Electoral committee of the NFF election released names of cleared and disqualified candidates for the election after screening on Monday Out of the thirteen aspirants for the presidency, eleven were cleared while two were disqualified. The two aspirants – Marcellinus Anyanwu and Paul Yusuf were disqualified for not meeting the requirements of…
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NFF Election: Electoral Committee releases prices for sale of forms
The body in charge of the forthcoming Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) election has released the prices for nomination forms for expression of interest into various positions. This comes eight days after the body was inaugurated at this year’s annual general meeting of the NFF. The sales of the forms will commence on Monday,…