’Tosin OluwalowoNigeria Professional Football League side, Nasarawa United, have been fined N10m by the ad-hoc committee set up by the Nigeria Football Federation to investigate the death of the club’s defender Chineme Martins. Martins slumped and died in Nasarawa United’s NPFL match against Katsina United at the Lafia Township Stadium on March 8. In a statement by the NFF’s Communications Department, Nasarawa Football Association was banned from hosting football matches, while the club was also directed to pay all Martins’ financial entitlements. “The NFF should empower its Medical Committee, Technical Committee, Club Licensing Department and the LMC to exercise fully their statutory powers and functions,” Singabele said. The committee said Nasarawa United didn’t have a medical doctor or a physiotherapist, with the club’s medical team headed by a retired community health assistant.

Source: Punch July 23, 2020 23:26 UTC