Nigeria National League
Osun FC lifts suspension on Bright Omokaro, others
Management of Osun United Football Club of Osogbo has lifted the suspension placed on the team’s Head Coach, Bright Omokaro. The club also said the suspension of the two assistant coaches, Bayo Adesina and Wole Animasahun, as well as a player, Olusola Akilapa, had also been lifted. Osun United Media Officer, Tajudeen Amodu, on Thursday, made it known that the decision to lift the suspension was taken on Wednesday. Amodu explained further that the decision to lift the suspension was taken after the management’s meeting to review the club’s performance, after the mid-season break declared by the Nigeria National League (NNL). He said the management, while lifting the suspension, charged the reinstated coaches to be up and doing and take the club back to its winning form, when the league resu...
Heartland head coach debunks exit reports
Heartland FC coach Fidelis Ilechukwu has debunked reports of his departure from the Nigerian Professional football league side. Ilechukwu at Heartland is presently facing challenges of non-payment of salaries and the two years ban on the club from signing new players. In a chat with the media, Ilechukwu affirmed that he is still with the club tagging all the reports of his exit as baseless and fake. ”Reports of my Heartland FC exit is fake news. The news is not true, although, the state of things here now is not so good because they have not paid us for over seven months, if I want to leave Heartland there is a proper way of doing it. “I have a contract which I respect, there is a way to leave if I have to leave in Peace not by having issues,” he told newsmen. IIechukwu started his managem...
NFF gives out palliatives to clubs in Abuja
The Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday handed out palliatives to representatives of 14 different clubs and two communities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as token support in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic ravaging the entire world presently. The clubs, spread across Nigeria National League, Nigerian Nationwide League One and FCT League (academies) cadres, included Supreme Court FC, EFCC FC, Abuja Female United, FOSLA FC, Bimo Sporting Club, Wazobia FC, Setraco FC, Goodland FC, Fire Service FC, NYSC FC, FWC Champion Club, Abees Academy, Casmat Academy and WACO Academy. Garki Village and Karamajiji communities also benefitted from the package. At the presentation of packed items such as rice, beans, Indomie noodles, groundnut oil and tin tomatoes at the football bo...
