NPFL warns coaches, officials against discrediting comments

The Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, has warned nine coaches and officials against making discrediting comments astir referees.

The NPFL gave the informing successful a memo signed by the league’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr Ayo Abdulrahman.

Abdulrahman reminded each clubs of acceptable standards for conveying grievances.

He insisted that the nonsubjective is to support the league’s marque and debar acts susceptible of driving distant concern interests.

The memo referenced a trending video interrogation featuring Sporting Lagos manager Jeffery Buter, who questioned the integrity of the centre referee aft his side’s Matchday 6 brushwood against Barau FC successful Lagos.

Abdulrahman pointed retired that the NPFL model and rules prohibit nationalist disapproval of the league and its officials.

Part of the memo read: “This has go indispensable arsenic the 2026/27 play progresses and with peculiar notation to a trending video interrogation featuring the Sporting Lagos FC coach, Jeffery Buter, which questioned the integrity of the centre referee astatine the extremity of the Matchday 6 brushwood successful Lagos against Barau FC,” the memo stated.

“All Clubs are hereby reminded of Appendix B, Rule 7 and Section A, Rule 5.5.2 of t...