Amaju Pinnick

The two-year tenure of Amaju Melvin Pinnick, president of the Nigeria Football Federation, has elapsed and the battle for control of the powerful football governing body was at its most feverish last week, even as a subsisting court order...

September 02, (THEWILL) – Africa's football governing body, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has declared that Guinea will no longer hold the hosting rights for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. THEWILL recalls that on November 30, 2018,...

August 16, (THEWILL) - Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has once more declared that he will not seek for re-election to a third term in office. Pinnick, who claimed to have had calls from...

July 05, (THEWILL) – Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, has expressed deep dismay at falsehoods attributed to him recently in the local media. A section of the media claimed recently that the football boss had...

April 14, (THEWILL) –  Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), has been offered a seat in the influential newly constituted FIFA Working Group on Normalisation Committees. In a letter to Pinnick, the secretary-general of the Confederation of...

July 05, (THEWILL) - The lower leagues of European football are not meant for the footballing talents that Nigeria produces according to Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The football administrator bared his thinking...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 04, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that the membership of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, into the FIFA Council, ‘‘will provide benefits that will lead to the advancement of...

Excerpt For so long women’s football has suffered neglect and disrespect.. what are your plans to change that narrative? That’s not true, it has never been like that. Nigerian female football is number one in Africa and one of the best...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 22, (THEWILL) - Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has described the election of President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, into the council of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) as another positive...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 12, (THEWILL) - At the elections held during 43rd Ordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) held in Rabat, Morocco on Friday, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Melvin Pinnick...