Everybody in Nigeria can condemn, some can proffer solutions but only a few have solutions.
This is my submission on how NFA should be structured and run.

1. Every interested Nigerian should be given opportunity to be NFA member

2. Every interested person should be grouped into FORUMS according to their interest e.g.
* Players forum,
* Football analysts’ and journalists’ forum,
* Ex-players forum,
* Sponsors forum,
* Supporters forum,
* Coaches
* Referees forum and so on.

3. The forums should exist at Local Government Levels so as to cut across all the country and category of people.

4. The forums should appoint its leadership by election at every LGA. Their primary role will be to organize and maintain order in the forum.

5. Each forum shall elect certain number or persons e.g. 3 members to constitute the Local Government FA. This is depending on the number of available posts in the LGFA divided by number of forums. Such persons shall be electable by the forum members.

6. The LGFA’s primary role shall be to organize football league or competition within the Local Government.

6. The state FA shall also constitute of elected members whom must had served as LGFA member before and electable by the forum leaders of all LGAs in the state.

7. The primary role of the state FA shall be to organize football league or competition within the state.

8. There should also be a regional FA in each geo-political zone of the country whose members shall be persons whom had served as a state FA member before and shall be electable by state FA members of the geo-political zone.

9. The primary role of the regional FA shall be to organize football league within the Geo-political zone to serve as division 2.

10. There should then be the NFA whose membership shall comprise of persons whom had served as a regional FA member and electable by forum members and regional FA leaders.

12. The NFA should be divided into 3 tiers.
* The first tier shall be charged with local leagues and competitions.
* The second tier shall be responsible for national teams.
* The third tier shall be responsible for administration.

13. There should only be one term of 3 years for LGFA and 4 years for State FA and 5 years for NFA.

14. Members in different forums should pay dues which will serve as a means of raising funds for LGFA and state FA. (Many Nigerian would be interested and would pay dues which will raise huge sum of money).

15. Teams that top each LGA would play to produce teams that will promote to State league. This is same for state to produce teams that promote to regional (division 2 as stated in item 8 above).

16. The NFA should organize division 1 league and premier league. The division 1 league should consist of two conferences i.e. northern and southern conference for northern states and southern states (this is to reduce running cost and expenses for clubs at that level) while the premier leagues clubs will play across the federation.

17. Excesses of the LGFA, SFA and NFA would be checked by the forums through their leadership.


With the analyzed method,

• Elections will cost less
• Experienced people will run our FAs
• Every interested person will have a fair chance
• Organization and the running and membership cuts across the federation.
• People would be elected to posts based on their previous achievements in their previous posts and thus charges them to work hard and deliver while in office.

10. There should then be the NFA whose membership shall comprise of persons whom had served as a regional FA member and electable by forum leaders and regional FA leaders.