by Emmanuel Chidiogo
The Nigerian Premier League resumes this weekend, Sunday 27th, with matches across the country. League leaders, Kano Pillars will travel to Port Harcourt to play Stanley Eguma’s Dolphins at the Liberation Stadium.
The Pride of Rivers will be looking to payback the 3-1 defeat they suffered in the hands of Pillars on matchday 19.
Dolphins, who are currently in the semi-finals of the Federation Cup, are placed 9th on the league table with 27 points from 19 matches. A victory for them, will help close the gap on Kano Pillars.
Other matches of Match-Day 20 are listed below:
Enugu Rangers vs El Kanemi Warriors
Abia Warriors vs Nasarawa United
Akwa United vs Sharks
Giwa vs Enyimba
Warri Wolves vs Kaduna United
Sunshine Stars vs Nembe City
Bayelsa United vs Crown Fc
Taraba vs Gombe United
All matches are scheduled to kick-off by 4pm.
LMC and NPL Clubs
Recently, clubs in the Nigerian Premier league (NPL) have had issues with the League Management Company (LMC).
YNaija had a chat with sports journalist, Deji Adegbenro, who gave details on the present situation between the NPL clubs and the LMC.
The LMC had introduced the Club Licensing Regulation, to help sanitise the league of clubs who had bad stadia, owed player salaries and lacked documentation of transfers and medicals.
Adegbenro said the clubs were protesting because the LMC had prevented them from signing players as a result of not meeting the minimum requirement of not owing player wages – the only rule that the LMC imposed for this season. He said only three clubs – Abia warriors, Bayelsa United and Kano Pillars – met the requirement at the beginning of the season.
“These three clubs were the ones not to owe their players at the beginning of the season and were given the license to buy players. Other clubs were still indebted to their players.”
The LMC cleared Seven more clubs (Heartland, Sunshine Stars, Enyimba International, Warri Wolves, El-Kanemi Warriors, Rangers International and Lobi Stars) to sign players after they had cleared up players salaries.
Deji further said that the Club Licensing Regulation was in the interest of the clubs, as CAF plans to introduce the same regulation by October. And clubs who did not meet the regulation requirements would not be allowed to participate in any continental competition.
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