The Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has approved the recommendation of the League Management Company (LMC) for the appointment of Davidson Owumi as the new Chief Executive Officer of the organising body for the Nigeria Professional Football League.
Owumi, who has had a stellar career both as a player and club administrator, is expected to resume office after the upcoming annual general meeting of the League Management Company.
He replaces Hon. Nduka Irabor, a celebrated journalist and former Member of the House of Representatives, was the first Chairman of the LMC before becoming its CEO and resigned from the position months ago.
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NFF endorses Davidson Owumi as LMC’s CEO-designate
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick has approved the recommendation of the League Management Company (LMC) for the appointment of Mr Davidson Owumi as the new Chief Executive Officer of the organizing body for the Nigeria Professional Football League.
Owumi, who has had a stellar career both as a player in and outside Nigeria and as a club administrator, is expected to resume office after the upcoming annual general meeting of the League Management Company. He replaces Hon. Nduka Irabor, a celebrated journalist and former Member of the House of Representatives, who was the first Chairman of the LMC before becoming its CEO, and resigned from the position months ago.
Bloemfontein Celtics were drawn bye in the preliminary round of the competition while Rivers United relied on a penalty shoot out to overcome hard fighting Futuro Kings of Equatorial Guinea.
Speaking ahead of the game, Eguma admitted that the South Africans will be hard nuts to crack, but his wards have come too far to let Nigerians down.
“We expect a tough game in South Africa. After the first round, we realised that this tournament requires nothing but the best from all of us, the players, the technical crew and the management.
“As it stands now, the state government and Nigerians are solidly behind the team. We can’t afford to let them down, not even at the time that our brothers (Kano Pillars and Plateau United) have been knocked out of the competition.”
NPFL: To be or not to be?
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Nigerian Professional Football League
By Jacob Ajom
The Nigerian Professional Football League officially began in 1990, following the full consideration and implementation of the report of the Nathaniel Idowu-led Committee. The report includes, among other things, a business-oriented approach to the running of professional football in Nigeria.
This was supposed to reflect in the manner clubs are run, players’ remuneration and the league. Clubs were given a five-year grace to build their own stadiums; clubs were supposed to go public and sell shares in the capital market; the government was supposed to ease its stranglehold on the country’s football mechanism, while club managers and managements were tasked with how to initiate programmes that can generate enough revenue for clubs and break away from being too dependent on government funding.