Nigeria and
Ghana are both facing international suspensions from FIFA after a final warning
was issued to the African nations over outside interference in their football
associations.
FIFA
announced on Tuesday that the Nigerian football federation headquarters must
return to its elected leadership by Monday August 20 or the country will be
suspended from all international competition.
With NFF
president Amaju Pinnick in Russia for the World Cup, the building was taken
over last month by a group claiming a Nigerian court order had given them
control of the federation.
The
suspension would prevent all Nigerian national teams from taking part in
international competitions, but FIFA did say it would make an exception for the
Nigerian women's under-20 team, which will be allowed to complete their
participation at the World Cup in France.
Ghana has
been given until August 27 to reverse a court order dissolving the country's
football association.
The
government made the order after widespread corruption in Ghanaian football was
revealed in an undercover documentary, which captured GFA president and FIFA
Council Member Kwesi Nyantakyi accepting a cash gift of $65,000 from undercover
journalists.
Nyantakyi
resigned from his role following the release of the documentary.
Both of the
nations' senior men's sides are set to resume their African Cup of Nations
qualification campaigns on September 8.
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