Abuja: Nigeria will be banned from all football unless a court decision that sacked the country’s recently elected FA executives is not overturned by Friday, world governing body Fifa announced on Tuesday.
A leadership crisis has bedevilled the African champions for the past four months despite several interventions by Fifa, who have now warned it will slap a lengthy ban on it.
Last week, a group led by Chris Giwa secured a court ruling that sacked the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) executive committee led by Amaju Pinnick.
Giwa, who maintains he was elected NFF president on August 26, although Fifa refused to recognise it, took the matter to court in contravention of Fifa statutes forbidding football issues to be deliberated in a civil court.
But a letter from Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke to Pinnick, who was elected as president of the NFF on September 30, said Fifa had extended the deadline for Nigeria till Friday as an opportunity to avoid a lengthy ban.
