NFF crisis, threat of FIFA ban and the future of Nigerian football

On August 27, Ibrahim Gusau resigned arsenic the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.

It was a determination cipher saw coming.

You see, radical hardly measurement down from their roles successful this portion of the world.

Yes, the Super Falcons failed to suffice for the 2027 Women’s World Cup – the archetypal clip this has happened successful history.

And the Super Eagles were absent successful consecutive World Cups this twelvemonth too.

But what usually follows specified failures is simply a committedness to spell backmost to the drafting board. Or adjacent silence.

“I deliberation it has been unfortunate, but besides eye-opening,” Wale Agbede, a renowned sports broadcaster, told DAILY POST.

“When you look astatine the grounds of that administration. You spell backmost to the World Cup qualifiers for the Super Eagles, the contented that Alex Iwobi brought up comes to mind.

“They had been booked successful a edifice that was rather noisy and squad wasn’t capable to person a bully rest.

“To present find retired that determination were monies fixed to the NFF leadership, you perceive talks of N17bn flying around. To larn that not each chromatic was near unturned to guarantee ...