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NFF panics over Senate's directive on new name

By DIPO OKUBANJO

THE Board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is reportedly gripped with trepidation following the directive issued by the National Assembly that the nation's soccer ruling body should revert to its old name or risk denial of government subventions.

The rare tranquility being enjoyed by the nation's soccer ruling body for some time now was fouled recently when the National Assembly querried the rationale behind the changing of name from Nigeria Football Association to Nigeria Football Federation.

The Sani Lulu-led Board of the NFF had based its decision to transmute from an association to a federation on the need to abide by the supposed new statutes under which it operates. But the Senate frowned at the development, claiming that it was wrong for the association to change its name to federation when the law that would have enabled that action has yet to be passed.

A source within the NFF confided in our correspondent that the threat to stop appropriation to the federation dominated the discourse among Board members at the weekend.

The source revealed that "moves were being made by top officials of the federation to reach out to prominent members of the National Assembly, especially members of the committee on sports.
"The motive is to get them to soften up on the threat because it is common knowledge that government is the biggest financier of the federation and it would not augur well if the flow of funds from government was interrupted."