The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) is set to kick-off on the 27th of December, 2020, the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has said.
Dare stated this while briefing the press at the National Stadium in Lagos on Friday, calming nerves over the resumption of the Nigerian league which has been on a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The minister dismissed insinuations that the country’s football is dead but admitted that interest in Nigerian football has waned over the years.
He noted that aside from the pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives across the globe, the football league in the West African country has not resumed due to issues with the organisers.
According to him, the ministry will be meeting with the NPFL and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to fine-tune plans for the restart of football in the country. Clubs, they will be an assessment of teams’ readiness to resume action, stressing that the league will resume with the teams that are ready.
