subject: FIFA Has Suspended Nigeria From International Football [print this page] World football's governing body announced the decision follows an offer from the sports minister to restart the league without expulsion, less pressure to move the Nigeria Football Association acting secretary general and selected tests of executive committee members the federation.
Government of Nigeria has called for banning national team to play shortly after the Central African Cup have been inclined to the first World Cup on the continent in South Africa in the group stage with one of Oceanography, suspended for two years up on 05 July after FIFA has imposed a deadline to stop political interference.
However, several soccer officials have been fired and Goodluck Jonathan has also ordered an investigation into the amount of money allocated for equipment for the World Cup have been bribery case against four former executives used.
A football was resumed on Tuesday after being closed last month. Agency Anti-Graft has accused Nigeria of former NFF President, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanz Vice President, Secretary General Bolaji Ojo-Oba and Chairman of the NFF Technical Committee, Taiwo Ogunjobi, 10 counts of corruption.
Football's world governing body, FIFA, yesterday suspended Nigeria from international football because of government interference.
FIFA had previously threatened to suspend Nigeria in July when the government, frustrated at the team's first-round exit at the South Africa 2010 World Cup, banned the country's national teams from all international competition for two years.
Though the government eventually rescinded the decision, FIFA said it would continue to monitor events in the country.
One of such events, amongst many others, was the August 26 elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation, which was annulled by a Federal High Court.
FIFA Has Suspended Nigeria From International Football
