Contained in a letter by Faith Irabor, Head of NFF’s Referees’ Development
Committee/Unit and addressed to Davidson Owumi, NPFL’s Chief Operating Officer
(COO) on Monday, the affected referees were placed on preliminary suspension
following their perceived poor performances in seven NPFL matches, pending when the
appropriate technical evaluation of such decisions are determined to be either right or
wrong.
The affected match officials include: Referee Bawa Buhari, Referee Chukwuka Jahlove
and Assistant Referee Akinwale Tomiwa, Zachariah Nde, Referee Saeed Abdulaziz,
Jimmy Aimugbonrie, Referee Brown Ebenezer, Assistant Referee Atuwho Morrisson,
Imamu Maliki U. and Assistant Referee Sunday Azi.