Nigeria gets August 20 deadline to avoid FIFA ban

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 ban scares Fidelis Ilechukwu

By Taofeek Babalola

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) Football Club head coach Fidelis Ilechukwu has pleaded with football stakeholders in the country to find a lasting solution to the leadership crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to avoid FIFA’s ban, Sportinglife.ng reports.

REVEALED: Federal Ministry of Justice letter that sacked Pinnick and his board

Sportinglens.blogspot.com has obtained a copy of letter written by the Federal ministry of Justice directing the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) led by Amaju Pinnick to vacate their offices as the federation executives.

Amaju Pinnick rejects FG order to vacate office

Amaju Pinnick has reacted to his sack as president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), describing it as “null and void”, Sportinglens.blogspot.com reports. 

NFF’s plans for board elections is a distraction to Eagles’ World Cup, Says Dalung

.Orders federation to stop all election activities

.Seeks legal advise from Attorney-General over Giwa/NFF Supreme Court verdict

By our reporter 

The Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung has said that a call for purchase of forms and setting up of an electoral committee for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) next executive board at this time was a distraction to the team's preparation, Sportinglens.blogspot.com reports. 

GIWA VS PINNICK LEADERSHIP BATTLE: Supreme Court Orders Case Back to Federal High Court

Supreme Court has ordered an accelerating hearing in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) leadership tussle between Chris Giwa and Amaju Pinnick on the 2014 elections into its Executive Committee.

Court of Appeal Upholds Giwa FC Expulsion from NPFL

·         Quashes contempt Charge against Dikko, Abubakar

The Court of Appeal, Jos Division, has struck down the order of the High Court of Plateau State directing the League Management Company (LMC) to compulsorily re-instate Giwa FC to the Nigeria Professional Football (NPFL), after the Jos based Club had been expelled from the NPFL for multiple infractions of the Rules and Framework of the League in the 2015/16 season.

Jos Appeal Court fixes October 11 for hearing of all LMC Appeals

The Court of Appeal, Jos Division which sat on Monday has directed that there should be no attempt to tamper with the subject matter of the appeal file by the League Management Company (LMC) against the orders of Justice I.I. Kunda of the Plateau State High Court, Jos. This is even as the Inspector General of Police on Monday increased Police presence at the premises of the LMC to protect the staff and its activities.

Court order: League will go on, says LMC

Fixtures of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) will continue to hold as scheduled, according to a statement by the League Management Company (LMC) released on Friday. The LMC said it was among several other grounds, relying on the motion filed for stay of execution of Mr. Justice I.I Kunda's latest order made in disregard of the notice of appeal filed against his first order.

Reps takes NFF case to Speaker

…Says Giwa’s court case indisputable

 

As the battle for the soul of Nigerian football rages, the House of Representatives Committee on Sports headed by Hon. Bukar Goni Lawal, has said it cannot adjudicate on the matter that is presently before the Nigerian Judiciary.

Federal High Court disowns ‘writ of execution’

The latest antic by Chris Giwa and his group to continue to lay some claim to leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation has been blown to smithereens, after the Federal High Court, Jos disowned the ‘writ of execution’ being bandied by the group.

In an interview in his office in Jos on Monday, the Registrar of the Federal High Court, Jos, Mr. Nasiru Gusau said the document did not emanate from the court.

NFF CRISIS: Reps move to end Giwa-Pinnick face-off

House of Representatives lawmakers on Tuesday tasked the Committee on Sports to invite Solomon Dalung, the Minister of Youths and Sports and management of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) with a view to amicably resolving the lingering crisis rocking the football house.

NFF crisis: Giwa serves minister court order

Factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ambassador Chris Giwa, has rubbished the outcome of the Extra-Ordinary Congress of the football body held in Abuja on Wednesday.

Giwa, in a statement on Thursday, maintained that the extra-ordinary congress was an aberration of the court ruling which has restrained the Amaju Pinnick-led board from parading themselves as the executive members of the NFF.

NFF CRISIS: FIFA warns Nigeria

Football's world governing body Fifa issued a warning to Nigeria on Monday to either reinstate its sacked Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) officials or face a suspension.

It follows last week's regional high court ruling that Chris Giwa should be installed as the NFF's President and that the Fifa-recognised head, Amaju Pinnick, be sacked.

NFF CRISIS: Police seal off NFF secretariat

The Nigeria Police Force took over the Nigerian Football Federation headquarter in Abuja on Monday as the leadership crisis took a new twist.

Goal learnt that security operatives sealed off the nation's footballing secretariat, barring staff of the NFF from accessing the complex which also houses the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC.