Kano Pillars Relegated After NFF Rejects Appeal


Kano Pillars have been relegated from the NPFL after the NFF Appeals Committee upheld the decision to deduct three points due to the debacle in their match against Dakkada FC.

This was confirmed in a statement released by the NFF on their website on Saturday.


Kano Pillars were punished for improper conduct during a league game with Dakkada at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano, on 23rd June, 2022.

During the game Kano Pillars former chairman Surajo Yahaya assaulted Assistant Referee 1, Daramola Olalekan, after visitors Dakkada scored a late equaliser against the home team.



Following the incident the League Management Company (LMC) deducted three points from Kano Pillars which leaves them on 42 points, five adrift of safety with one game left to play.


However, Pillars appealed the decision but the NFF rejected which means Pillars have been relegated to the lower division.

The statement from the NFF read:”The Committee found as a fact that Kano Pillars FC did not challenge findings No. 5 of the decision of the NFF Disciplinary Committee, which is the assault on the Asst. Referee 1 by the former Chairman of Kano Pillars FC.

“That Dakkada Int’l FC admitted that their camera was not totally destroyed, but the memory card was removed and the microphone destroyed, but the recording was saved on the internal memory of the camera and same was forwarded to League Management Company and it is in the League Management Company’s record.

“The Committee found as a fact that the League Management Company’s letter dated 14th July, 2022, was contemptuous of the NFF Appeals’ and Disciplinary Committees and their representative, Uche George Egbe, refused to withdraw the letter when demanded by the Appeals’ Committee.

“Finding No.5 of the Disciplinary Committee, which was not appealed against by the Appellant, was what the Committee found as the main crux of the disruption of the match by the attack of the Kano Pillars former Chairman on Asst. Referee 1, as shown in the pictorial evidence presented before the Committee. In view of the above, the Appeal fails.

“On the issue of the destroyed camera, the Committee agrees that the memory card was removed and the pouch of the microphone was destroyed, as such, this constitute damage to property, therefore, the appeal fails.

“The decision of the Disciplinary Committee is hereby upheld. Consequently, the appeal is hereby dismissed.

“On the League Management Company’s letter dated 14th July, 2022, addressed to the General Secretary, Nigeria Football Federation, having found that the letter is contemptuous, League Management Company is hereby barred from sending such letter to the Nigeria Football Federation. League Management Company has been cautioned several times, as the letter was trying to sway the decision of the NFF Appeals’ Committee.

“An appeal against this decision shall lie to Court of Arbitration for Sports, Lausanne, Switzerland. (Art. 70 of NFF Statutes 2010.)“

Lalasticlala. Mynd44 mukina2

https://www.completesports.com/kano-pillars-relegated-after-nff-rejects-appeal/

Good for them

Good riddance

Remember those days when the home team loses at home, their fans will declare jihadism on the visitors


There's time for everything, that's the chemistry of life!

Kano pillars of oldies... Not the nonsense and lack of promotion for local leagues giving birth to the nonsense they're playing today...


If corruption was a global thing.... Champions league and other leagues wouldn't be global today...


NFF needs to work better...

Good for them,..

I went to a food stuff market in Abuja, all I can say is, Buhari don finish this country from top to bottom..

Avoid voting another old man who can't find his certificate

Amed Musa

Kano Pillars F.C.

Kano Pillars Football Club is a Nigerian professional football club based in Kano, North Western part of Nigeria. They play in the top division in Nigerian football, the Nigerian Premier League. Their home stadium is Sani Abacha Stadium. Kano Pillars FC was founded in 1990, the year in which the professional association football league started in Nigeria. It was an amalgamation of three amateur clubs in Kano State.


History

Founded in 1990, By Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima former chairman Nigeria Football Association and former sport commissioner of Kano, from the combination of WRECA FC, Kano Golden Stars and Bank of the North FC, Kano Pillars achieved outstanding success by winning the 2007–08 Nigerian Premier League. Kano Pillars produced players like Abiodun Baruwa who has since played for Swiss, Austrian, Welsh and British Clubs and Sani Kaita who later plays for Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Another Prominent player is Ahmed Garba 'Yaro Yaro' who later plays for AB in Denmark and a notable player from Kano Pillars FC is Ahmed Musa who played for Leicester City in the English Premier league after joining from CSKA Moscow. It was registered as a limited liability company with the Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria, and then registered with the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) as a professional football club. The Kano Pillars drew an average home league attendance of 10,000 in the 2016 league season.

June 2021, in the 2020/2021 NPFL season, Kano Pillars were fined a whopping sum of ₦7,500,000.00 for failing to follow the orders of the LMC and NFF, which prohibited fans from viewing live games in the stadium. Fans disrupted a top table clash between Akwa United and Kano Pillars. The game ended 0-0 after it was concluded the following day. [1]

2009 Champions League:

They are also nicknamed "Ahly Killers" as they scored 2 magnificent goals in Egypt and drew with Al Ahly Cairo in Egypt 2–2 and 1–1 in Nigeria, so the Ahly Killers went to the Group stage in the African Champions League on the away goals rule. They made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated against fellow Nigerian team Heartland.

league trophies:
kano pillars won their first league title in 2008
2012: pillars won their second league title ahead of enyimba
2013: kano pillars won a second successful title ahead of ahead of enyimba again
2014: pillars joined heartland and enyimba in winning three league titles in a row


Achievements

Nigerian Premier League
Champions (4): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2013, 2014.
Runners-up (1): 2009–10.
Nigerian FA Cup
Winners (2): 2019, 1953
Runners-up (2): 1991, 2018.
Nigerian super cup. 1.winners 2008.
"'Nigerian super four"'. (runners up)2.
longest unbeaten run ended when they lost to Julius Berger FC Ended after 12 years with loss to Nasarawa United August 2015.

Performance in CAF competitions

CAF Champions League: 6 appearances

Kano Pillars arrival to Ahmadu Bello Stadium for a friendly match.
2009 – Semi-finals
2011 – First Round
2013 – First Round
2014 – Preliminary Round
2015 – First Round
2020 – Preliminary Round
CAF Confederation Cup: 0 appearance
Current players
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As of 25 December 2021

Note: Flags


Notable players
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Nigeria Rabiu Ali
Nigeria Ahmed Musa
Nigeria Junior Lokosa
Nigeria Chinedu Udoji
Nigeria Ndubisi Chukunyere


Lalasticlala. Mynd44
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_Pillars_F.C.

NPFL got it right this time, mk dm carry their violence go second division

Good for them. They can now carry there violence conducts to the NNL. Kano pillars fans are the worse set fans in the NPFL. Good riddance!

Good riddance to a violence-prone club.

But why are NPFL clubs not consistent in performance over the years? In EPL & other European leagues, you will always find a set of clubs consistently finishing say Top6 over the years.
But our NPFL, one club will finish 1st this season & finish 10th next season. You'll be seeing new clubs representing us in CAF club competitions every year. Doesn't favor continuity & success.