The Chief Operating Officer of the Nigeria Premier Football League, (NPFL), Davidson Owumi has reiterated that the seminar organized for clubs’ Chief Security Officers and Chairmen of Supporters Club was organised to bring peace and order to match venues in the 2024-25 season and subsequently.
The NPFL board held a seminar in Nasarawa State to sensitise clubs’ Chief Security Officers and Chairmen of Supporters club ahead of the upcoming season.
Owumi said the seminar would help instil safety and curb incidence of violence and hooliganism before, during and after domestic league matches in the coming season and thereafter.
“The seminar is aimed at educating the stakeholders who are saddled with the responsibilities of maintaining peace and order at match venues, that’s the Chief Security Officers and Supporters’ Club Chairmen of the Clubs participating in the League,” Owumi said. “We are also giving them soft copies of everything we have taught them, hoping that it will have a very positive impact on the participants when they get back to their respective Clubs.
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“Additionally, this seminar will set a positive trajectory for the league going forward.”
The new NPFL season will commence this Saturday, August 31 with Rangers International, the reigning league champions squaring up with El-Kanemi Warriors who are the defending President’s Federation Cup champions.