NPFL: Relegated FC Taraba Players Call Off 10-Day Protest

Relegated Taraba FC players had to sleep outside the state house for 10 days before they could see the Governor. 10 days!!! just to see a Governor? 

Is this not injustice? The Governor has now promised to pay just two months out of 11 months salary outstanding.

Players of troubled FC Taraba have agreed to call off their protest over 11 months' unpaid salaries after a frosty meeting with their sponsor, the Taraba State government, on Wednesday.

NPFL: LMC Will Pay FC Taraba Players Outstanding Salaries - Shehu Dikko

The Shehu Dikko led League Management Company are showing signs of concern and player first initiative. Acts like this will certainly push the NPFL up.

LMC chairman Alhaji Shehu Dikko spoke to Journalists yesterday about the plight of relegated FC Taraba players who are owed 11 months salaries.

Shehu Dikko made it clear and simple "the money to be paid to the club by the LMC will be paid to the players directly to reduce their burden".

NPFL: Relegated FC Taraba Players Protests Outstanding Salaries In Front Of State House

Relegated side FC Taraba took a protest to the state house but met the absence of the Governor. The relegated players made a demand for their out-standings and also blamed Shehu Dikko's led LMC for refusing to enforce sanctions on the club. Several clubs in the NPFL have found their selves in this situation and issues like this still affect the progress of the league.

FC Taraba players took to the streets of Jalingo before landing at the Taraba Government House on Friday to protest the delay in payment of their outstanding wages.

The players blamed the League Management Company (LMC) for their woes after it failed to enforce the six points penalty deduction from the team’s haul on the league table when the state government reneged on the promise to pay the debts before the end of the season.

NPFL: Warri Wolves 5-1 Taraba FC

Warri Wolves ended the league season in style after they thrashed Taraba FC 5-1 in a rescheduled match played at the Warri City Stadium on Monday morning.

Wolves finished as runners-up with 66 points from 38 matches, four points behind champions Enyimba, and they will represent Nigeria in next year’s CAF Champions League, while Nasarawa United will feature in the Confederation Cup.

Gbolahan Salami opened scoring after 13 minutes from the penalty spot after he was upended inside the box on his way to goal.

NPFL: Sharks FC Joins Bayelsa, Taraba & Kwara United In Relegation

Prior to this match Sharks had 2 points ahead of Dolphins and Akwa united and was ranked 15th on the table with 46 points. Sharks would have escaped relegation with a draw but the unexpected happened. Sharks FC will have to play in the lower division.

Sharks have been relegated from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to the Nigeria National League (NNL) on the last day of the season.

Sharks have now joined Bayelsa United, Taraba and Kwara United to the NNL

NPFL: Which Team Will Join Bayelsa & Taraba For Relegation?

The battle for survival in the Nigeria league will be fiercer than the battle for the championship as two teams are set to join Taraba and Bayelsa United on relegation with Kwara United, Dolphins, Sharks, Lobi Stars and El Kanemi Warriors all in danger.

FC Taraba and Bayelsa United are already doomed for relegation to the Nigeria National League (NNL) with two rounds of games to the end of the season on November 15.

Both teams currently with 34 points from 36 games cannot tally more than 40 points with two games to go which won't be enough to save them from going down to the second-tier of Nigeria league.

FC Taraba Will Survive In NPFL - Ndubuisi Nduka

FC Taraba head coach, Ndubuisi Nduka has said his side have good chances of survival in the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season.

The Jalingo outfit sit at the base of the 20-team top flight log despite a spirited 1-0 win against Sunshine Stars in match day 20 clash on Sunday. Nduka said the league is still an ongoing race which no team can rightly claim full ownership of title or staying right until the last match is played.

“League is like a race you cannot say it is over until the race is completely seen to be over.

Crisis Springing Up In Nigerian Top Flight

The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) could run into a crisis as the second round of this season commences this weekend.

One of the top flight clubs, FC Taraba, have ran into a financial hitch and have been unable to pay their coaching and playing personnel since the start of the season. The Jalingo club have failed to pay their players' wages for 10 months and there are now fear that the NPFL bottom-placed team might fail to see out the current season.

The calendar of the NPFL is now looking threatened of being disrupted by the financial woes of FC Tarabawho who could be thrown out of the championship and have points removed from matches involving them.

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NASARAWA UNITED 1-1 FC IFEANYI UBAH

The Solid Miners lost more ground on the league table after they were held to a 1-1 draw by the Anambra Warriors at the Aper Aku Stadium, Makurdi on Sunday.

Nasarawa United started the game brightly and took the lead through Esosa Igbinoba in the 11th minute but got their joy silence six minutes later through Bright Onyedikachi who equalised for the away team