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Nigeria's Football and the Perpetual Power Puzzle

The ongoing battle to control the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) represents a major fault line in Nigeria's quest for football progress. Of course, while the press clamors for the resignation of Pinnick Amaju's regime and the upstart Giwa faction gains a court ruling to take over the reins, the only thing that suffers is Nigeria's football.  Make no mistake about it, there is nothing in the composition of Giwa's faction that demonstrates that it has anything good to offer Nigeria's football. In fact, they offer worse going by the antecedents of  the litany of individuals mentioned by that group. However, that is not saying that Amaju Pinnick's group has performed in an outstanding fashion. In fact, Pinnick's group has been underwhelming but it is undeniable that they have toed a more forward outlook to solving Nigeria's football problems. Their major setback is inability to generate funds to solve numerous problems and the regime's tendency