But Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung insists the country must follow the dictates of its law. FIFA on Tuesday threatened to ban Ghana and Nigeria from international football unless both governments stopped interfering in the administration of the game in their countries. Yesterday, FIFA announced that the Ghanaian government had pledged to stop the process to wind up the country’s football association (GFA) over corruption allegations. The same measures were threatened on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) following what appears a government sponsored bid to remove the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, from office. Reports said Osinbajo directed Dalung to avoid anything that would incur FIFA’s wrath on Nigeria, but the minister has come out to say the acting president never gave such orders.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2018 04:07 UTC