NNL recovers clubs' N12m debts to players

THE Nigeria National League (NNL) says it has recovered about N12 million owed top players and officials by clubs in the second tier of the National League.Speaking during a Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) interactive session with journalists in Lagos yesterday, NNL Chairman, Emeka Inyama, disclosed that the body would soon hand over the money to the NFF for disbursement to the affected players, adding that the league was determined to ensure that the players got their duties on time.Inyama said the NNL board was determined to sanitise the league to ensure that it attracts sponsors and spectators to the games. He added: 'We were put under severe pressure to bend the rules when we decreed that no debtor club would be allowed in the league at the beginning of the season.'I am happy that our efforts have started yielding fruits and I want to assure Nigerians that we will not stop working hard until we get things the way they should be.'The NNL recently punished Adamawa United in what officials of the body said was to curtail the club's unruly behaviour. It became the first club in the NNL to receive the wrath of the organising body following what the board described as unacceptable attitude of its supporters during the club's home matches.Rising from its board meeting over the weekend in Abuja, the NNL boardnoted that after observing the Adamawa United's supporters' unruly behaviour in its home matches, the club has been directed to play its remaining home matches behind closed doors.The board regretted that it has received series of reports on the unacceptable behaviour of the supporters of the Yola-based club hence it took the decision to make it play without its supporters in its subsequent home matches.
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