• Tasks NSC chairman to work with NFF secretariat and relevant stakeholders, including FIFA and CAF, for a broad, consultative reform process
Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday directed a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football to overcome repeated failures to qualify for major regional, continental, and world tournaments.
Tinubu said, “The reform must respond to a longstanding need to strengthen governance, administration, stakeholder representation, development pathways, domestic competitions and accountability across Nigerian football.”
The president, in a release issued by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, stated that while other sports had recorded meaningful progress since the reset of the sports sector under the re-established National Sports Commission (NSC), football had continued to struggle because of structural weaknesses within the system.
