Football League (NWFL).
The board of the Nigeria Women Football League have
announced the postponement of Week five matches to attend to the
issue of collation and validation of COVID-19 test being conducted
by the premiership clubs.
The NWFL secretariat confirmed that the clubs have failed to
meet up with the directives on COVID-19 test 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.
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“Tests from unapproved centres will be rejected after
verification and the clubs involved suspended from the league.
“The post is an advert from www.advertis.ukponement 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 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 centres, to the Secretariat by mail and
hard copies (original) on or before Friday 15th January 2021.
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 post is an advert from www.advertis.ukponed Week 5 matches
will be played on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.