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Sports News of Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Coronavirus: NWFL postpone week five games to Jan 20

The board of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) has postponed the scheduled week five matches to address the collation and validation of the coronavirus test being conducted by the premiership club.

This was confirmed by the NWFL secretariat who said that clubs have failed to meet up coronavirus directives for players and team officials.

“The NWFL do not want to take the risk with any of the clubs going by the fresh wave of increased Covid-19 infections due to the new variants of the deadly disease which have left more people dead in Nigeria than before,” Chairperson of the NWFL, Aisha Falode said on Monday

“We are currently verifying and validating results sent in by some of the 14 clubs not up to half of the clubs in the league.

“We are also going to verify the authenticity of the test centres sent in by the clubs from the Federal Ministry of Health and the relevant state’s Ministry of Health, going by the reports that some clubs are going to unapproved centres to conduct the test.

“Tests from unapproved centres will be rejected after verification and the clubs involved suspended from the league.

“The postponement of the league by one week is due to the tasking process of collation and validation. Because of this, the board of the NWFL found it imperative to postpone the Week 5 matches to allow the Secretariat to complete their job on the ongoing Covid-19 test on clubs concerned.”

Falode said that the board has given enough time to the clubs to complete the test and send results with proof (pictures) from government-approved test centers, to the Secretariat by mail and hard copies (original) on or before Friday 15th January 2021, according to Channels TV.

Falode, who is also a board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, declared that any club found wanting at the end of the exercise will be suspended from the league indefinitely. And the NWFL may have to take over the testing of all the clubs to avoid any of the clubs putting the league into disrepute.

The postponed Week 5 matches will be played on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.