The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Referees Development Committee, has read the riot act to erring referees officiating in the various leagues.
The referees include those officiating in the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, Nigeria National League, NNL, and Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL.
A statement by Ameenu Mohammed, NFF Referees Committee Secretary noted that a special monitoring committee has been set up to evaluate their performances.
The statement reads: “In order to curb the excesses and negative tendencies in Refereeing decisions, the NFF President
has constituted a Monitoring Committee mandated to deploy personnel to each match centres of the NPFL, NNL and NWFL in order to directly report actions and inactions of Match Officials
for appropriate actions.
“Referees and Assistant Referees are therefore, instructed to carry out their duties, diligently, truthfully, without fear or favours.
“Referees and Assistant Referees are warned that anyone who disregards these instructive guidelines and acted in manners that tend to bring the integrity of the game into disrepute shall not only be dismissed from Refereeing but shall equally be handed over to security agencies for prosecution for sabotage and match fixing.
“Let’s join hands to uplift our leagues and our football through our actions and inactions.”
