NPFL At 30: A Promise Not Yet Fulfilled NPFL At 30: A Promise Not Yet Fulfilled Birthed in 1972, but transformed to a professional league on the 12th of May 1990 and being rebranded by the League management company (LMC), from the Nigerian Premier League to the Nigerian Professional Football League(NPFL) in 2012. As is it part of its efforts to avert a total collapse and change the outlook of the highest level of the Nigerian football league system. Three decades of it establishment, one expects an already rosy going for the Nation’s top division but rather has experienced many dwindling fortunes in recent years. This problem range from sponsorship, remuneration, officiating and television coverage. This makes it imperative on the football-loving fans of the Nation to resort in patronizing the foreign leagues, from the English premier league, to the Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French ligue-1 among lots of others; which in return have had some economical backdrop on the local league.