NWFL chief, Falode to clubs: “Pay up your registration fee or forget the league”

Chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Aisha Falode has advised clubs eligible to take part in this season’s Nigeria Women Premier League (NWPL) to pay up their mandatory sum of #500,000 (five hundred thousand naira) participation fee or forfeit their spot in the league which kicks off next weekend.

As at the last count, not more than seven clubs have so far completed the process of registration which among other commitments includes, the payment of the mandatory registration fee.

Secretary of the NWPL, Ayo Abdulraman, has made frantic efforts in the last two weeks after the Congress of the Nigeria women’s league held in Abuja, to ensure erring clubs abide by one of the key resolutions reached at the congress but all efforts to make them pay up, have so far fallen on deaf ears as some clubs have remained adamant and unbending .

To this end, affected clubs have been given till midnight of Wednesday next week to pay up or lose their slot on the log.

“We cannot continue to condone such from the clubs according to the league board Aisha Falode in a telephone interview on Wednesday.”

“We have employed every available means to amicably resolve this issues but the affected clubs are not making life easy for anybody. Some of them are owing backlog from previous seasons but I have instructed the secretariat of the league board to see the backlog as bad debt so that we can forge ahead.

“Now we are saying, pay up for just this season so that we can start on a fresh page but they are not yielding. If we must play the league, we must be ready to do it right.

“We cannot because we want to please people allow the house to fall right from foundation. The United States women’s league has just ten teams participating and they are doing really good. If we have to come to that number we wouldn’t mind because the ultimate is to package an attractive league that will entice sponsors, ” she concluded.

The Nigeria women’s premier league starts next weekend with seventeen teams taking part.

Defending league champions, Rivers Angels will however not be involved until April 6, having been drawn bye by the league organisers to take on Capital City Doves in Abuja on that day.