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NIGERIA FACES FIFA SUSPENSION AGAIN

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African champions
Nigeria could be thrown out of international football by the governing body of
the sport, FIFA, this week. The football federation of the West African nation,
the NFF, has been given a deadline of Monday, October 27, 2014 to resolve its
governance issue or face automatic suspension from FIFA.
A Federal High
Court sitting in Jos and presided over by Justice Ambrose Allagoa had last
Thursday week declared the elections of September 30, 2014 that brought the
Amaju Pinnick executive committee into office as null and void.
The court also
warned the troubled NFF executive committee to quit parading itself as the
country’s football authority which has led to the Chris Giwa group that filed
the suit to stake claim as being the authentic executive committee of troubled
Nigeria’s FA.

The governance
crisis was further heated on Friday when it emerged that Pinnick was stopped at
the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos from travelling to Namibia
for the African Women Championship (AWC) final between Nigeria and Cameroon
following the court ruling. The Pinnick-led NFF has already claimed that it has
filed a stay of execution on the ruling by the court in Jos, which will be
heard this Wednesday.
FIFA and CAF stated
that they recognize the elections of Pinnick and his executive committee and
even congratulated him on emerging the NFF president.
But Nigeria, who
hold the men’s and women’s titles in the Africa Cup of Nations and AWC
respectively, now risk missing out in a handful of 2015 international
tournaments as FIFA will not revisit any sanction meted out on the country’s FA
until May 2015 when the FIFA congress holds in Zurich, Switzerland.
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