As NFF confirms election date
The technical committee of the Ni­geria Football Federation (NFF), headed by Barrister Green with former Super Eagles head coach, as well as former Eagles striker, Victor Ikpeba have been handed the task of de­termining the fate of the national team coach, Stephen Keshi.
Though, there were strong indications that the former skipper of the senior na­tional team is likely to be retained, a com­muniqué signed by Emeka Inyama at the end of the NFF Executive Committee meeting held in Abuja and made available to Daily Sunsports seemed to have given a tacit approval to Keshi’s return as Eagles manager.
Paragraph five of the communiqué read thus: “Following the report of a three –man committee appointed to open channels of communication with Mr. Stephen Keshi on the probability of contract renewal for the Super Eagles’ Head Coach job, the Execu­ tive Committee approved that the acting president convene a meeting of the NFF emergency committee to approve/finalize details of Keshi’s possible re engagement within the shortest possible time.
“The Executive Committee also resolved that the election of the NFF will still hold on Tuesday, 26th August, 2014 in Abuja as earlier agreed upon while the General Assembly will now hold on Wednesday, 18th November, 2014 at a venue to be de­termined later.”
Though, the executive committee decid­ed to retain the electoral committee with Amoni Biambo as chairman, it, however, excluded Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje and Pascal Patrick, while the Electoral Appeals Committee is also retained with the exclu­sion of Barr. Eddy Ibrahim Mark, who is a Chairman of one of NFF’s judicial bodies.
In addition, the committee constituted a five-man committee to review the issue of bans on persons within the Nigeria football family and report back to the body within three days. The committee, which was immediately inaugurated by the Acting President, Chief Mike Umeh, is headed by Chief Effiong Johnson and has Hon. Shehu Adamu, Mr. Ayodeji Tinubu, Mrs Dili­chukwu Onyedinma and Hon. Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande as Members, while Dr. Christian Emeruwa will serve as Secretary.
Hon. Shehu Adamu was at the meeting appointed as acting 1st Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation and re-af­firmed Barrister Musa Amadu as General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation.
It was also decided that henceforth, funds generated from registration fees for the men and women federation cup compe­titions will now be shared at the ratio of 60 per cent to the federation and 40 per cent to be kept by football associations in the states. Committee also expressed sincere appreciation to the Lagos State Govern­ment for hosting the grand finale of the federation Cup for several years now and also approved that the state host the next three editions in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

New contract: Keshi scales first hurdle