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The Super 4 invitational tournament was surrounded with few controversies from some quaters, some persons didn't agree with the competition name for reasons best known to them, some tagged it Super 6, LMC Pre-season tournament, so to them Super 4 is not the best name for the football event. POST MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE: I stand to be corrected,  I don't  think we have had a post match conference in the history of Super 4 or Pre-season games before this present one. I think the LMC deserve some thumps up for that. We hope they make it compulsory for the participating teams in the Nigeria Professional Football League starting from this season. It makes the work easier for some of us who reports the league. OFFICIATING: Officiating in the pre-season tourney for me was excellent, the likes Orowole Temitope Olayinka olajide Anietie Ferdinand Udoh and others interpreted the complicated rules of the game to the best of their knowledge. We are looking forward to seeing such offic...

Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) side Abia Warriors head coach Ladan Bosso has stated that Nigeria referees are giving their best despite the environment they found themselves. The former Under 20 gaffer disclosed to BFCNews on Wednesday in Abuja saying that the Nigeria referees are still one of the best set of referees in the world when we compare them to other referees in other countries but he insisted that the issue of security at match venues must be given proper attention to. He says"Nigeria referees are really trying compare to other countries that is just the fact but there are still need from the organisers of the league to ensure that there is maximum security in the league venue. "The lack of security in the league venue sometime make the referee to change his mind because the home team will always go the extra mile to make sure that they win at all cost and sometimes it affect the decision of the referee. He continued "It is said that the best...

  The second batch of Nigerian referees to go for capacity enhancing programme in the United Kingdom, since the advent of the Amaju Pinnick –led NFF Board, will depart the country on Monday.   All the 20 referees have been issued entry visas into the United Kingdom, and they will be accompanied by Chairman of the NFF Referees Committee, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmed Fresh and the Chairman of Nigeria Referees Association, Alhaji Ahmed Maude.   Three women are among the 20 arbiters who will undergo a similar exercise to that taken by a team of 10 Nigerian elite referees in a first run of the programme in December 2014. This second batch will return to the country on February 4.   The referees heading out for this second exercise, sponsored by Sienna Marine Limited, are Hadiza Musa, Paul Umuago, Jelili Ogunmuyiwa, Ibrahim Umar Fagge, Jeremiah Akure, Francis Agbaegbu, Mohammed Ahmed Rufai, Bosede Momoh, Ishiaku Ibrahim, Iheanacho Chukwuemeka, Dele Atoun, Abdulrahman Su...