The Nigeria
Referees Association, NRA has asked all stakeholders involved in the major
domestic league, the NPFL to give the referees a chance to excel in the 2018/19
which kicked off across the country on Sunday.
Making this
known is the NRA President, Otunba Tade Azeez who stated that referees will
continue to be fair and firm in the discharge of their duties adding that best
practices in the art of refereeing will be the watchword of his members.
According to
President, the listed referees have undergone the required physical fitness
test and medical tests necessary to be
qualified for match appointments.
Otunba Tade
while assuring the organisers , clubs and spectators of a better officiating,
requested for the needed conducive atmosphere to operate. The referees' body
further asked that the Win-at- Home
mentality of clubs should be discarded
even as some Club Owners in the habit of
having some street urchins in their payroll, ostensibly employed to harass,
attack and assault referees to gain favours at their home grounds admonished to
have a rethink for the Good of the Game.
While
stating that club officials found to be attempting to induce referees to gain
favours for matches would be exposed and
reported to the Ethics Committee of the NFF, Otunba disclosed that the
NRA will not hesitate to stop honouring matches on the home ground of any team
a referee was attacked this season.
The NRA
president wished all participating team and match officials a fruitful outing.
In the match
appointment for the Day One scheduled for Sunday, the latest referee on the
FIFA list, Nurudeen Abubakar of Bauchi council was at the centre with two
assistants Efozia Peter and Chukwuemeka Ihenacho. The top of the bill cracker
in Kano; Pillars vs Heartland Isa M (Niger) and Ali K ( Borno) was on the lines
for FIFA referee from Lagos, Jelili
Ogunmuyiwa.
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