President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, on Sunday, July 24, 2016, arrived Nigeria for a two-day working visit to the country.
Infantino touched down the country via the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja accompanied by the Secretary General of the body, Ms Fatma Samba Samoura.
He was received by President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick and about 18 federation presidents from Africa.
Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, became the cynosure of the global soccer lenses on Wednesday, as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was joined by the President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, to attend the opening round of the maiden Aisha Buhari Women Cup. Nigeria’s Super Falcons…
Amaju Pinnick has been removed by a court judgment as president of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF. A ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, on Friday, April 8, 2016, nullified the elections that brought Pinnick as president as well as other board members of the…
Armed to the teeth security men on Monday manned the entrance of the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, commonly called the Glass House to prevent entry. This followed the leadership crisis rocking the football governing body in Nigeria, which may force FIFA to ban Nigeria from football activities.…
