FIFA set deadline for Nigeria & Ghana Football Federations

Football governing body FIFA has given August 20th & 27th deadlines on banning Nigeria and Ghana football federations over government interference.

Nigerian football politics took a new dimension last Monday, when Chris Giwa resumed at the offices of the Nigeria Football Federation in Abuja, as the president of the football body.
Ghana’s problems stem from a corruption scandal engulfing suspended Ghana Football Association (GFA) federation boss Kwesi Nyantaki.

FIFA, in a statement by its Media Office, said it had been notified about ongoings in the two federations, and it viewed them as “undue interference in their affairs’’
Nigeria will face the wrath of the world football’s governing body unless “the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) offices are handed back to the legitimate NFF executive committee under President Amaju Pinnick”, a Fifa statement warned.
FIFA are on the warpath after the country's Attorney General ordered the GFA to be dissolved.

"If the petition to start the liquidation process of the GFA is not withdrawn" by August 27 the association "will be suspended with immediate effect", FIFA said.

FIFA statutes dictate that member states should "manage their affairs independently with no influence from third parties".
The long-running dispute over who is in charge of the NFF dates back to 2014

#RUSSIA2018 - 155 Nigerian World Cup fans stranded in Russia arrive Abuja

A nursing mother and 154 out of 230 Nigerian football fans stranded in Russia after the 2018 FIFA World Cup arrived the country on Friday night.

The stranded football fans including a nursing mother in her mid- thirties came through Ethiopian Airline flight number ET- ALP that arrived Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja at about 9 . 12 pm on July 20 .

The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Mr Geoffrey Onyeama , who was at the airport to monitor their arrival , lauded President Muhammadu Buhari ’s effort to ensure their safe return.
He said that Mr President had directed that Nigerians , who were stranded in Russia after the 2018 World Cup tournament, should be evacuated immediately .
According to him, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been monitoring the process of the evacuation , which is under the coordination of the Mission of Nigeria in Moscow .
He said that 155 stranded Nigerians had been cleared to board an Ethiopian Airline flight to Abuja .
“The aircraft departed Domodedovo Airport in Moscow with the stranded Nigerians in the afternoon and arrived in Abuja this evening.
Onyeama said he had been working very closely with the Minister of State for Aviation following President Buhari ’ s directive on the exercise .
He recalled that some Nigerian football fans who were stranded had besieged the Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow on July 12 .

“They were among the fans who travelled to the Russian Federation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Tournament and were stranded after the events due to lack of funds for their upkeep . ”
The minister explained that there was also an allegation that some airline travel agents cancelled return tickets of their customers without informing them.

He said that Mr President , however ,
gave the directive that they should be evacuated with immediate effect at the expense of the government.

via punchng