Private ownership of football clubs has
been suggested to be one of the ways to promote the Nigerian
Professional Football League (NPFL), and make it as lucrative as it used
to be in the past.
This was the submission of the President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick in Lagos.
Speaking in Lagos, Pinnick noted that
Nigeria needs football clubs that will have history, as this is when
they would feature in big matches like the CAF Champions League final.
In his words “We don’t just want to play
football for the social reason of uniting Nigeria, but we are coming out
with a policy very soon, which I will submit to the reforms committee,
where all clubs must have a certain percentage of private ownership.
Twenty percent can go to the government because of the stadia that they
own, which can be converted as equity. We need clubs that will have
history. That is the only time that you will see Nigerian clubs playing
in the final of the CAF Champions League.
We want the football clubs to be owned
privately Let them bring their friends and companies to manage and run
this club as a proper business. How much does it cost to run a club in
Nigeria? It is about developing strategies of how to raise funds to
themselves.”
Pinnick further revealed that one of the major projects of the NFF is to make football play a big part in the Nigerian economy.
“Part of what we are coming to do in our
second tenure is to build a football economy. Look at the sports
eco-system of Nigeria; it’s quite ambitious, making football an integral
part of the Nigerian economy. We need to do that, because football is
not just about the social factor, it is a massive business. It gives the
UK government 3.3 billion pounds, every year.”
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