NFF to constitute boards for NPFL, NNL, NWFL, NLO next month

Nigerian Football Federation (NFF)

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, disclosed that it would soon constitute boards for the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), the Nigeria National League (NNL), the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) and the Nigeria Nationwide League One (NLO). 

The Federation, in a communiqué issued at the end of its executive committee meeting on Monday, said the new boards would further rejuvenate domestic football, hence it would within the next one month, through its governing structure enthrone best practices, as enshrined in the statutes, unveil and constitute the boards.

The NFF also said that it has approved a 10-day final camping programme in North Africa for the national U-17 boys’ team, Golden Eaglets, just as it urged the team to work hard to win the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations slated for Algeria between April 29 and May 19, and also secure one of the tickets to the FIFA U-17 World Cup finals taking place later this year. 

The communiqué reads:“While asseverating that the bronze-medal performance of the Flying Eagles at the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in Egypt was below-par, the board charged the technical crew and the players to see it as a national duty to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup for Nigeria when the tournament holds in Argentina between May 20 and June 11.

“The board expressed satisfaction with the new positive spirit and winning mentality in the camp of the senior women’s national team, Super Falcons, which has seen the team win its last three international matches. With the bigger picture of the biggest-ever FIFA Women’s World Cup competition coming up in Australia and New Zealand this summer in mind, the board admonished the technical crew to work even harder to