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FIFA Hammers Chris Giwa, 4 Other With Five-Year Worldwide Ban

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World football governing body FIFA has banned five Nigerian football administrators; Christopher Giwa, Muazu Suleyman, Yahaya Adama, Sani Fema and Johnson Effiong for five years for breaching the Nigerian Football Federation’s Statutes and the FIFA Code of Ethics.

The ban  have worldwide effect, FIFA said.

The five persons who were banned by the NFF Disciplinary Committee last year from taking part in any kind of football-related activity, for staging a factional NFF board, saw their sanction extended in accordance with Article 136ff of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.

Christopher Giwa’s trouble started after he laid claims to being the legally elected NFF President and filed a lawsuit aiming to depose the sitting president, Amaju Pinnick, who emerged from the September 30 2015 elections in Warri.

Giwa was guilty of breaching the rules of conduct as stipulated in Article 13 of the FIFA Code of Ethics after he invaded the premises of the Nigeria Football Federation and falsely presented himself as President of the NFF on 6th May, 2016.

According to the media release on the official website of FIFA, relevant member associations of the world football ruling body, as well as CAF, have been duly notified of the decision .

CAF Bans Giwa, 4 Others For 5 Years

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Confederation of African Football, CAF, has slammed a five-year ban on embattled Chris Giwa and four four of his disciples thereby confirming and extending the same five-year ban placed on them by the Amaju Pinnick- led Nigeria Football Federation. The four others affected by the continental ban are Muazu Suleyman, Yahaya Adama, Sani Fema and Johnson Effiong.

In a letter signed by CAF’s Secretary-General, Hicham El Amrani and dated May 27th 2016 and copied to NFF’s President Amaju Pinnick, the letter stated that the ban forbids them from all football related activities for 5 years.

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I Am Yet To Receive Any Court Order – Dalung

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The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, said on Wednesday he was yet to receive any court order nullifying Amaju Pinnick’s Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) presidency.

Dalung said this at the NFF Extra-Ordinary General Assembly in Abuja that he has not been informed of any court decision.

 

“As a lawyer and a Minister of Sports, till today, I have not received any court order. The court orders served on me were all dated 2014. I have never received any court order dated 2016. The court order that was served on me was dated 2014; there is not even 2015 court order; so I am even worried, this news of Jos High court.

I have not seen any court order, but I am not saying there is none, if there is any court order, I am the minister bring the court order to me, I have not seen it.

I want to appeal to all of you seated here, that you must be sincere to yourself. For me in the government, government deals with establishments.

We came into office and we inherited a government in the Nigeria Football Federation.

If the government is replaced, we will also be informed as to how it has been replaced and as a government we will change our position.

The football family must go back and put itself in order.’’

 

It will be recalled that on April 7, a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau State, had nullified the election that brought NFF President, Amaju Pinnick and his board into office.

Dalung said he was not in a position to elect or impose a president on the federation, hence the need for the football house to find a way to resolve its issues.

He said that the Pinnick-led board had 30 days within which to appeal after which the court order would be enforced.

Dalung urged the NFF board to remain focus to the cause of football adding that the Chris Giwa led board should allow Pinnick to exercise his right.

He also urged the media not to destroy football in the country with stories that do not exist.

Earlier, Pinnick called on the minister to use his good office to bring on end to the battled in the glass house adding that it was not good for the development of football in the country.

Pinnick said that in the past two to three days the federation had lost sponsors for many games.

It will be recalled that the Chris Giwa led board addressing a news conference said that the court order had been made available to the minister.
(NAN)

Dalung To Meet Pinnick, Giwa Over Tussle

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In a move to bring to an end the struggle for who is the legitimate occupant of the seat of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, the Youth and Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung in a surprise move after denying backing the move of Chris Giwa to reclaim his alleged mandate as head of the NFF, has scheduled a peace meeting for January 20, 2016.

 
In a press statement issued by the Minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the minister is expected to meet with the gladiators in the scramble for the NFF position, Giwa and the current holder of the position, who was elected at the rescheduled Congress held in Warri in 2014, Amaju Melvin Pinnick.

 
The statement which did not indicate the venue of the meeting, said that Barrister Dalung has called on the Giwa and Pinnick groups to be calm while quoting him to have said that “after a comprehensive study of submissions from both sides, I have fixed January 20, 2016 to meet with the leaders of the two groups to resolve the issue. In the light of the above, the leaders of the two warring groups are hereby advised to refrain from acts capable of jeopardizing the peace process.

 
“They should therefore maintain calm while the issue is being resolved. All should note that any act contrary to my appeal will continue to tarnish the image and integrity of the country and further scare would-be investors from our sports “.

 
This minister’s move is aimed at forestalling any crisis that could result in an attempt by the Giwa group to forcefully resume at the Abuja office of the NFF on January 12, 2016 in a surprised renewed claim to the leadership of the NFF which mandate they claim they allegedly got in the controversial election of August 26, 2015 that resulted in the temporary suspension of the NFF by FIFA.