LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former secretary, Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi is dead. The football administrator passed on after failing to recover from an undisclosed illness. Tunde Samusudeen, public relations officer of Osun United Football Club, announced the death via a message sent to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday. Until his death, Ogunjobi was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amaju Pinnick has been re-elected as President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Announcing the result on Thursday in Katsina, the Chairman of Electoral Committee, Mr Mohamned Sani, said Pinnick scored 34 out of the 44 votes cast in the election. Sani said that Aminu Maigari got eight votes to emerge second,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Committee on Ethics and Fair Play, on Wednesday, banned Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, Salisu Yusuf, from all football–related activities for one year. The ban takes immediate effect. He was also ordered to pay the fine of $5,000 to NFF within a period of three months. Yusuf’s ban…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency on Monday said it recognised the Amaju Pinnick-led executives of the Nigerian Football Federation as the authentic executives of the federation. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a message he posted on his Twitter handle, @akandeoj. Akande said…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Amaju Pinnick-led Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation is back to the federation’s secretariat to direct affairs in earnest, NFF General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi said on Monday after operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, ejected members of the Chris Giwa-led faction. A number of DSS officials, who were…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, says Chris Giwa remains the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President as declared by the Supreme Court judgment on April 27. Dalung said on Monday in Abuja that the ministry was operating under the rule of law and obeying the court ruling. The minister was…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWRANGERS)-World soccer governing body, FIFA, have fixed this Tuesday for their decision on the latest crisis to rock Nigeria Football Federation, with the possibility of an announcement also expected on the matter. This follows a formal notification given FIFA by the NFF about details and true situation of the latest leadership tussle…
LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The former President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, has been appointed as 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football. This was contained in a press statement signed by the continental body’s General Secretary, Amr Fahmy, on Thursday. The statement reads: “Following the resignation of the 1st Vice President Mr…