Also, with only one of the eight teams participating in the play-offs in Aba, the commencement of the league looks unlikely. However, Dikko, who spoke on Channels Sports, said the NNL play-offs would not affect the LMC’s plans to start the league on January 13. I think they want to start on January 5th to finish on January 8th or 9th. It will not affect the start date of the new NPFL season (January 13). “We will get it done and we can start the league.

Source: Punch January 03, 2019 23:03 UTC