The Nigeria Women Football League has postponed the Match Day 5 games following the inability of all the 14 clubs to meet up with directives of the league management on COVID-19 protocols.
It will be recalled that the NWFL had directed the clubs to submit fresh results of their players for collation and validation.
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According to the Chairperson of the NWFL, Aisha Falode, in a statement said these measures are being put in place to prevent an increase in infections as well as putting the league into disrepute.
“The NWFL do not want to take a risk with any of the clubs going by the fresh wave of increased COVID-19 infections due to the new variants of the deadly disease, which have left more people dead in Nigeria than before.”
“We are currently verifying and validating results sent in by some of the 14 clubs not up to half of the clubs in the league.
“We are also going to verify the authenticity of the test centres sent in by the clubs from the Federal Ministry of Health and the relevant state’s Ministry of Health, going by the reports that some clubs are going to unapproved centres to conduct the test.
“Tests from unapproved centres will be rejected after verification and the clubs involved suspended from the league.
“The postponement of the league by one week is due to the tasking process of collation and validation. Because of this, the board of the NWFL found imperative to postpone the Week 5 matches to allow the Secretariat to complete their job on the ongoing COVIF-19 test on clubs concerned,” she said.
Falode further stressed that all the clubs must submit the genuine results or will be suspended indefinitely.
