NPFL: Former DG Sports Commission heads 11 man interim Committee to manage NPFL league

The Ministry of Youth and Sports activities Growth has appointed former Director-Basic, Nationwide Sports activities Fee, Gbenga Elegbeleye, Chairman of an 11-man Interim Administration Committee to handle the affairs of the Nigeria Skilled Soccer League.

This comes after the sports activities ministry scrapped the League Administration Firm, the NPFL’s supervisory physique, September 9, terming it “unlawful.”

The IMC will supervise the actions of the home league, till a brand new board is about as much as revive the league, consistent with the 10-year soccer grasp plan by the President, Main Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the sports activities ministry stated in an announcement

The ministry, within the assertion dated September 30 and signed by its Director, Press and Public Relations, Mohammed Manga, said, “According to the 10-year soccer grasp plan as permitted by President Muhammadu Buhari in the direction of the revitalisation of the home league, an 11-man Interim Administration Committee is hereby set as much as oversee the affairs of the league till a correct skilled league board is put in place statutorily.”

Veteran journalist, sports activities administrator and Chairman, Akwa United, Paul Bassey, serves because the Vice Chairman, whereas Olumide Bamiduro is the secretary.

Former CEO of the NPFL, Davidson Owumi, is the Head of Operations, with Remo Stars proprietor Kunle Soname, former Tremendous Eagles striker Daniel Amokachi, journalist Calvin Onwuka, Aliyu Adamu, Danladi Ibrahim and a consultant of the Nigeria Soccer Federation and the Nigeria Police Pressure the opposite members of the IMC.

Officers of the Nigeria Soccer Federation had been alleged to have fraudulently floated the now scrapped LMC to evade pre-existing money owed and different obligations owed by the organisation it succeeded, the Nigeria Premier League Restricted, the physique initially mandated by regulation to run an expert soccer league in Nigeria.