FIFA Council election: How Pinnick was schemed out
Pinnick garnered 28 votes—just one vote short of Mauritania’s Ahmed Yahya and Djibouti’s Souleiman Waberi, who secured the final two available slots.
OPINION: Amaju Pinnick’s many successes
At the early stage of second tenure, his opponents supported by the Sports minister attempted to forcibly gain control of the NFF but after the intervention of the country’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria was spared a worldwide ban by FIFA.
Buhari didn’t order Pinnick’s trial, NFF insists
Nigeria Football Federation has described reports in a section of the media about President Muhammadu Buhari calling for the prosecution of NFF president, Amaju Pinnick as blatant falsehood meant to throw the country’s football into fresh round of crisis.
Pinnick tasks NFF reform committee on Nigeria football
The Nigeria Football Federation yesterday in Lagos inaugurated the Reform Committee headed by the first Vice President of the NFF, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi. Tony Ubani, Sports Editor, Vanguard Newspapers is also a member of the committee.
NFF has 65% private sector funding — Pinnick
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Melvin Amaju Pinnick has revealed that his plans for a better second term at the helm of the nation’s soccer body are already on course, with a lot to be achieved from 65% private sector funding of the round leather game.
Pinnick hails Obaseki’s sports devt initiatives
The newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has commended Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, for his initiatives in transforming the sports sector in the state.
