President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Monday charged chairmen and members of the newly-constituted boards of the Nigeria National League, Nigeria Nation-Wide League One and the Nigeria Women Football League to come up with feasible plans and marketing strategies that will take Nigeria’s domestic football to new heights.
At the inauguration of the boards inside the Conference Room of the NFF on Monday, Gusau also warned that the boards should have clear plans on how to sustain organisation of matches and generally fulfill its responsibilities before the commencement of any season.
“We have picked men and women of high calibre, integrity and drive in order that we will have sustainable Leagues. We do not want a situation whereby a league will get to the middle of the season and be saying there is no longer money to run its programmes. We believe we have, in the new boards, men and women who can turn things around.
The NFF boss insisted that the Leagues are the drivers of the domestic game, and must do the job of transforming the game of football in Nigeria to a robust and profitable business.
“The NFF is determined that our football should be developed from the grassroots, with so much focus on young players, young referees and young coaches. While we will put up the policies, the Boards of the Leagues will have to put in the energy and drive to implement these policies and generally improve the lot of the domestic game.
Responding, His Excellency Silas Agara, Mr. George Aluo and Ms Nkechi Obi all promised to work with their various board members to achieve a positive turnaround of the state of Nigeria’s domestic game.
