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The Organising and Disciplinary Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has approved most of the recommendations made by the League Management Company (LMC) after a meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja.

The Committee upheld the decision of the LMC which asked Enugu Rangers to play 6 home matches without their fans and as such having already honoured four out of the 6 games, the Flying Antelopes will still prosecute ties against 3SC(Week 13) and Sunshine Stars (Week 15) without their fans. They will however be free to play in the presence of their supporters and fans as from their Week 17 home clash against oriental brothers, Heartland. The sanction was the fallout of the Rangers game with Warri Wolves in Enugu in Week 3 where two players of the club were alleged to have beaten up the centre referee after a goalless draw.

The O&D also resolved that the Rangers’ duo of Seun Taro and Pierre Coly who were alleged to have beaten up the centre referee during the disputed game against Warri Wolves in Week 3 to appear without any excuse before it on 30 May 2013 in Abuja.

Also the Committee has ruled that Kaduna United should also play their next five home games behind closed doors after their supporters brought the game to disrepute when they beat up match officials and the cameraman of the visiting Enugu Rangers in a Week 4 tie. They were also told to pay a fine of N200,000 and the medical bills of the injured referees.

The committee also upheld the ruling of the LMC regarding Kano Pillars and Heartland affair in Kano in a Week 8 tie to be replayed but with a change in date and venue to ensure the game is played on a neutral ground in all entirety.

The game now comes up on May 30th and would take place at the mainbowl of the Confluence Stadium,Lokoja. The new date was picked based on the fact that the old date of May 29th clashed with Democracy Day in the country.

The committee could not decide on the Lobi Stars versus Enyimba (Week 10) and Nasarawa United versus Wikki Tourists (Week 11) games but instead postponed verdict on those games and others till May 30th when it will have next sitting.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has commiserated with the CEO of HotSports Nigeria Limited, Taye Ige, over the loss of his mother, Madam Aduke Ike, who passed on recently.

The NFF in a letter signed by its General Secretary, Musa Amadu, said it is deeply mourning with the entire Ige family in their time of grief, as the death of a mother and family matriarch, from whose fountain of wisdom everyone drinks, is usually very painful and sorrowful.

It said: “we are consoled by the fact that death is an inevitable end for every human and that the departed Madam Ige left her giant footprints in the sands of time as a much loved community leader and devout Christian, strict disciplinarian and the mother of a number of prominent citizens making waves in their chosen careers.”

Similarly, the Squash Section of the Lagos Country Club has also expressed its condolences to its Chairman, Ige, over the death of his mother. The section, in a letter signed by Demola Olusunmade, its Vice Chairman, said Mama Ige will be remembered for her kind-heartedness, faithfulness and support to the good cause of humanity, exemplified by the lives of her children which is a testimony to the type of upbringing she gave them.

Madam Ige, popularly known as Mama Olopo-Ewa, died in Lagos after a brief Illness and will be buried on June 1, 2013 at Efon-Alaye. According to the burial arrangement released by the family, the Christian Wake takes place on Friday, May 31, 2013 at her residence at K52, Isare Street, Efon-Alaye by 5pm. There will be a church service on Saturday June 1, 2013 at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Idagba Street, Efon-Alaye at 11am after which interment takes place. Reception follows the interment same day at Oke Are Primary School, Efon-Alaye between 2pm and 7pm.