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Ikpeme, Abdulrahaman take charge of NFF, NPFL

Dr Emmanuel Ikpeme and Dr Ayo Abdulrahaman have taken charge of the Nigeria Football Federation Secretariat and the Nigeria Premier Football League respectively, as the National Sports Commission moved to ensure continuity in football administration following the resignation of the federation’s top officials.

The National Sports Commission endorsed Ikpeme, until then Deputy General Secretary, to oversee the NFF Secretariat as interim General Secretary, with Dr Ademola Olajire, formerly Director of Media and Communications, stepping in as interim Deputy General Secretary.

The appointments followed Thursday’s resignations of Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau as President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr Mohammed Sanusi as General Secretary, and members of the federation’s Executive Committee.

Also on Friday, the NFF appointed Abdulrahaman as Chief Operating Officer of the Nigeria Premier Football League, on the same day the new season kicked off with a season-opening clash between CAF Confederation Cup flag-bearers, Shooting Stars, and newly-promoted Inter Lagos FC, at the Adamasingba Stadium, Ibadan.

Abdulrahaman, who holds a doctorate degree in sports administration, brings a wealth of experience across the various leagues into the role.

Ikpeme said Abdulrahaman’s appointment followed Thursday’s directive to all board members, chief executives and non-NFF-staff Chief Operating Officers of the various leagues to vacate their positions, and confirmed that the appointment took immediate effect.

The Chairmen, appointed directors and chief executives of the Nigeria Premier Football League, Nigeria National League, Nigeria Women Football League and Nationwide League One have equally been directed to hand over administration of their respective leagues to their Chief Operating Officers, who are staff of the NFF, or to a newly deployed Chief Operating Officer from the federation where the incumbent is not.

All processes initiated in preparation for the NFF Elective Congress, earlier scheduled for September 27, have been suspended, with a fresh electoral process to commence only after comprehensive reforms have been concluded in consultation with FIFA and CAF.

The reorganisation comes on the back of a directive by President Bola Tinubu ordering a comprehensive overhaul of Nigerian football administration, to address the country’s repeated failures to qualify for major regional, continental and global tournaments.

“The reform must respond to a longstanding need to strengthen governance, administration, stakeholder representation, development pathways, domestic competitions and accountability across Nigerian football,” Tinubu had said, noting that while other sports had recorded meaningful progress since the reset of the sports sector under the re-established National Sports Commission, football had continued to struggle owing to structural weaknesses.

“Football, Nigeria’s most popular sport and the greatest beneficiary of public support, investment and national attention, has continued to struggle basically due to structural deficits within the system,” he said, directing the Chairman of the National Sports Commission to work with the NFF Secretariat and other stakeholders to ensure continuity in football administration while facilitating a broad, consultative reform process alongside engagement with FIFA and CAF.

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Nice 👍 cos I don't know what they're doing in that NFF for real ... , Good morning all and first to comment

This is good news.
Hoping for a better experience with our football teams.

Thank God oooooooh....


Thank God say no be pinick abi na picnic of a man

That guy sabi lobby ooooh


That guy really destroy our national team

Is a good something. NFA need to be reposition so Nigeria can win worldcup in 2030

Who cares?

Know the root cause of the decline and fix it.

Very corrupt set of people managing football in Nigeria

Only if they aren't corrupt.

At least the calamity regime is over

Can we start planning for 2030 world cup

They said don't swim in alligator infested waters but to lie down and sleep by the shore is also damning.

These interim people are still the old names that have surrounded football for years and cultured it to the present position.

While I somewhat agree about the experience and the rosy credentials. But our football did not suffer because of those. It suffered because of culture, with each successive administration doing almost exactly what it's predecessors did.

If you really want a change you must have the courage to try new things, new people, starting with the interim administration. Either bring people from outside sports and football administration to be specific or advertise internationally.

I bet these ones will direct the football house in exactly the same previous paths and we will end up exactly where we were in no distant time.

Mirasteel:
Only if they aren't corrupt.

I bet you they are and they will be.
They know where all the skeletons are.
Sorry to say so but they are the house rat that knows where the satchel of crayfish is kept.

Clean break is clean break.
The only other way is to get a board of highly, highly upstanding Nigerians to superintend over them. People who value their reputations and fear failure and scandals.

If you want a commercially successful NFF then bring in folks from the business sector. They may not know jack about football administration but that is exactly how to crush cancer.

donleo92:
Thank God oooooooh....


Thank God say no be pinick abi na picnic of a man

That guy sabi lobby ooooh


That guy really destroy our national team

Wallahi that picnick or whatever is a bitch. He brought so much destruction into the glass house, he is the worst NFF boss ever anytime I see the occuktic bitch I feel like knacking him with akpako.

Good governance in progress

Jayhome24:
Wallahi that picnick or whatever is a bitch. He brought so much destruction into the glass house, he is the worst NFF boss ever anytime I see the occuktic bitch I feel like knacking him with akpako.

Because he was always part of the 'system'. Learnt a lot from his Delta FA days.

I just hope reforms will be made to broaden the base of leadership candidacy. Right now it all looks like a cartel.

In Europe you can vie for leadership just like any other political office. You don't have to belong to any group or previous membership of any Association.

You have ideas, you are resourced, you sell them well, you win.

Just broaden the base and open up the space and let quality come in.

Reference:
Because he was always part of the 'system'. Learnt a lot from his Delta FA days.

I just hope reforms will be made to broaden the base of leadership candidacy. Right now it all looks like a cartel.

In Europe you can view for leadership just like any other political office. You don't have to belong to any group or previous membership of any Association.

You have ideas, you are resourced, you sell them well, you win.

Just broaden the base and open up the space and let quality gone in.

Fact, absolutely fact!!!

You said it all.

It's still the same people in the same system of Ibrahim Gusau exco,so I won't be too excited.

Never have we had it this bad in the history of sports. We can't qualify in 4 consecutive editions of FIFA Under 17 and 2 consecutive editions of the FIFA under 20, the FIFA world cup and football Olympics. Even last Afcon it takes CAF to penalize Libya and award us 3 points for us to take qualify in that tournament.
Nigerian football is dying fast.

The reorganisation should stop corrupt nigerian politicians from taking over the nff their only aim is to loot money from fifa and the federal govt, only experienced sports administrators should be elected the nff president.

donleo92:
Thank God oooooooh....


Thank God say no be pinick abi na picnic of a man

That guy sabi lobby ooooh


That guy really destroy our national team

The lobbying is actually bribing officials with money he is related to a former delta state governor.

Anybody but pinnick.... For other countries as we no qualify for world Cup dem go Don resign

Jayhome24:
Wallahi that picnick or whatever is a bitch. He brought so much destruction into the glass house, he is the worst NFF boss ever anytime I see the occuktic bitch I feel like knacking him with akpako.

If not for the former governor of delta state that sponsored him he wouldn't have ever had any business been the nff president he has absolutely nothing to offer.

Same old bunch of clowns

donleo92:
Thank God oooooooh....


Thank God say no be pinick abi na picnic of a man

That guy sabi lobby ooooh


That guy really destroy our national team

What are you even saying? Pinnick was the best public administrator during his time in Nigeria and helped our football go far with respect from fifa

peleson1:
What are you even saying? Pinnick was the best public administrator during his time in Nigeria and helped our football go far with respect from fifa

You must be outta ya mind

But we still qualified to Russia during his time

donleo92:
Thank God oooooooh....


Thank God say no be pinick abi na picnic of a man

That guy sabi lobby ooooh


That guy really destroy our national team

Watin concerns Doctors for football affair so NFF no see among our numerous football icons to put there

I will start taken Nigeria league serious when odd of home team against away team started reading like [3 : 1.4]. (5.2 : 1.3)
{2.8 : 2.3}


If South Africa, Egypt, Morroco, Algeria, even Tanzania can be bookmakers can given such odds out,why not Nigeria, that claimed to be powerhouse.

They shouldn't take over NPFL. I strongly disagree with this. They are mere appointees

Mr Ikkpeme.

Don’t go there Ànd become a racketeer like taiwo olosho lover ogunjobi or the crooked Amaju pinnick

Remember there once was a gentleman called Emeka Omeruoh who still till this day was a standard bearer for what Àn NFF chairman should be.

Follow in omeruouhs footsteps Ànd you’ll succeed.

A plan for a brighter future!

Northerners should leave football administrative for once na then dey kill our football trust me let give a youruba or Igbo guy or south to give our football meaning