{"id":15425,"date":"2014-07-18T05:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fifa-ban-nigeria-beats-deadline\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:08:14","slug":"fifa-ban-nigeria-beats-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fifa-ban-nigeria-beats-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Ban: Nigeria Beats Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{A Jos High court on Thursday vacated an order which restrained the Nigeria Football Federation from functioning pending the hearing of a suit challenging the validity of the Aminu Maigari-led Nigeria Football Federation.}}<\/p>\n

Nigeria has therefore met FIFA\u2019s conditions to avoid being banned after the Maigari board was reinstated following the ruling. The board was sacked on July 6 by the NFF Congress.<\/p>\n

FIFA had suspended Nigeria for government interference in the activities of the NFF.<\/p>\n

The world football body had demanded the withdrawal of the (court) case as well as the reinstatement of the sacked board to enable the country to avoid being banned.<\/p>\n

A July 17 deadline was given to reverse the decision.<\/p>\n

Justice Philomena Lot of the High Court had last Friday issued the injunction, pending the hearing of the suit filed by the proprietor Nembe Football Club, Mrs. Ebiakpo Baribote.<\/p>\n

The vacation of the order followed a withdrawal of the suit, which had led to the suspension of Nigeria from all football-related activists by FIFA.<\/p>\n

The withdrawal of the suit was said to have been sequel to appeals made to the plaintiff in the interest of the country.<\/p>\n

At a sitting of the court on Thursday, Justice Lot vacated the order following a motion filed to that effect by the counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Habila Ardzard.<\/p>\n

Ardzard, who spoke to our correspondent at the end of the sitting, said his client had to listen to pleas by some Nigerians so that the country would not be banned.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cMy client as a patriotic Nigerian read the mood of FIFA and more so there is a female World Cup coming up soon as she would not like the country\u2019s interests to be jeopardised by her action.\u201d<\/p>\n

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