Nigerian football fan sentenced to jail for attacking player during NPFL Match

• A shot instrumentality has been sentenced to jailhouse for assaulting Plateau United subordinate Temitope Vincent successful the Nigeria Premier Football League
• The incidental occurred during a lucifer betwixt Nasarawa United and Plateau United astatine the Lafia City Stadium connected April 13
• The Media Director of the Nasarawa Football Association provided a elaborate relationship of the altercation betwixt the subordinate and the fan

A Chief Magistrate Court presiding successful Lafia has sentenced a football instrumentality to 3 months successful situation for assaulting a Plateau United player, Temitope Vincent, connected April 13.

The irate instrumentality took the instrumentality into his hands contempt Nasarawa's 3-2 triumph against Plateau successful the NPFL match.

The onslaught occurred contempt caller NPFL support allowing fans backmost into Lafia Township Stadium nether strict information conditions.

A shot fan, Bashir Bala, volition walk 3 months successful jailhouse for assaulting a Plateau United player, Temitope Vincent, during a Nigeria Premier League match. Photo by: @royalblogoffici/Twitter.
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How the onslaught happened

The unfortunate incidental occurred aft the lucifer betwixt the 2 North Central rivals.

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Plateau United's Temitope Vincent became a people pursuing his show successful the game, contempt missing a punishment successful the dying minutes of the encounter.

According to Punch, Bashir Bala was initially alleged to person stabbed the subordinate with a knife, but a thorough probe aboriginal confirmed that nary stabbing occurred.

Bala was arraigned connected charges of assault, usage of transgression force, and disturbance of nationalist bid aft the convulsive onslaught connected Temitope.

The assault, which near the subordinate with a cervix injury, sparked nationalist outrage and renewed concerns astir information astatine NPFL lucifer venues per Daily Post.

As a effect of the incident, Nasarawa United person been fined ₦6 cardinal and banished to Gombe for their location games per Channels.

The Solid Miners presently beryllium 14th connected the NPFL table, conscionable 1 constituent supra the relegation zone.

Nasarawa United person distanced themselves from Bashir Bala, a instrumentality who stabbed a Plateau United player, Temitope Vincent, during a NPFL match. Photo by: @NPFL_News.
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Odoba-Yacham gives elaborate relationship connected Temitope's attack

Nasarawa Football Association Media Director, Adams Jesse Odoba-Yacham, has addressed the incidental involving a spectator and Plateau United’s Vincent Temitope.

Speaking successful an exclusive chat with Legit.ng, Odoba-Yacham explained that the unruly spectator was handed implicit to the Nasarawa State Football Association Chairman, who past turned him implicit to the police. He said:

"I would emotion to springiness a clearer relationship of what transpired astatine the Lafia City Stadium betwixt Vincent Temitope and a Nasarawa United fan."There was a constituent successful the crippled erstwhile Vincent Temitope headbutted Detan Ogundare during play, with the subordinate cursing and astir warring everyone (Nasarawa United players)."The 2nd 1 was erstwhile Plateau United won a punishment successful the dying moments of the game, for astir 2-3 minutes, the aforesaid subordinate was warring his teammates implicit who to instrumentality the spotkick, having scored the first, helium wanted the secon,d but Detan Ogundare denied the attacker from 12 yards."After the game, sports writers were conducting a post-match interrogation erstwhile I saw Vincent Temitope exchanging words with a feline conscionable earlier the entranceway of the gate. "The adjacent happening they were exchanging punches, and the integrative array utilized by the Match Commissioner was broken, and some utilized it to onslaught themselves. "From the speech of punches, Vincent bled earlier I went successful to telephone the attraction of the Nasarawa United Chairman, who rushed to the country with the FA Chairman and Plateau United General Manager connected the ground."Led by the FA Secretary, the subordinate was taken to the session wherever the coiled was dressed and the idiosyncratic who inflicted the wounded was arrested by the stadium information arsenic directed by the FA Chairman and handed to the Police Force.

Shooting Stars clasp Ikorodu City hostage successful Ibadan

Legit.ng earlier reported that Ikorodu City were allegedly held hostage by aggravated fans of Shooting Stars aft their 0-0 gully successful lucifer time 32 of the Nigeria Premier Football League connected April 6.

Despite the beingness of the Nigerian Police Force astatine the venue, they were incapable to power the irate fans, who pelted trash cans astatine the referees.

The visiting squad was yet accompanied retired of the stadium by unit of the Nigerian Army.

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Source: Legit.ng