Defers decision on NWFL board

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, announced the extension of the tenures of the present boards of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Nigeria National League (NNL), and the Nigeria Nationwide League One (NLO) till the end of the tenure of the present NFF administration headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau.
 
The tenure of the present NFF board will end on September 29, 2026, having taken office on September 30, 2022.  By this decision, the boards headed by Gbenga Elegbeleye (NPFL), George Aluo (NNL), and Silas Ali Agara (NLO) will now continue in office until September 29, 2026.
 
In a statement yesterday, the NFF executive committee commended the body of work of each of the three boards in the past two years, and charged them to commit even more efforts to delivering better-packaged and more attractive leagues that football managers and stakeholders in the country and the continent at large will be proud of, while resolving to progressively introspect and innovate for the good of the game.

However, the NFF Executive Committee has deferred the decision on the board of the Nigeria Women Football League, headed by Ms Nkechi Nneka Obi, to a later date. The lifespan of the boards of the leagues, put in place on July 1, 2023, on a two-year mandate, came to an end on June 30, 2025.