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Nigeria National League announces postponement of Super 4 tournament 

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Nigeria National League announces postponement of Super 4 tournament 
By Wale Mustapha
The management of the country’s second tier Nigeria National League, NNL has disclosed that the season ending Super 4 tournament has been postponed to a later date to announced.
In a statement released on Monday, 17th of October, 2022 by the Chief Operating Officer, COO of NNL, Emmanuel Adesanya, the shift in date was as a result of flood ravaging major parts of Bayelsa State hosts state for the Super 4.
Adesanya said the overwhelming flood disaster that is also affecting other parts of the country, has forced the Nigeria National league Super four tournament to be shifted.
The season ending playoff for the best teams in the four abridged divisions was earlier fixed to commence Wednesday 19th – Saturday 22, October 2022 at the Samson  Siasia Stadium, Yenegoa, Bayelsa state capital.
According to Emmanuel,”It has proposed a new date of Tuesday 25 – Sunday 29th October, 2022 for the Tournament, while hoping that normalcy would prevail.
“We are touched by such flood situations in Bayelsa and other regions of the country as well, we needed to tarry and pray God to intervene under the circumstances.
“It is a natural phenomenon and we can only but seek for proper interventions to save the situations, we regret the inconveniences this may have caused many people.”
Insurance of Benin, Bayelsa United, Doma United of Gombe and El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri are the four group winners that will slug it out in classification Super four tournament.
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