NPFL: Kano Pillars Banned From Registering New Players For Owing Super Eagles Legend

NPFL: Kano Pillars Banned From Registering New Players For Owing Super Eagles Legend 

By Emmanuel Chinedu 

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) side, Kano Pillars has been banned from registering new players ahead of the season by the league organizer, BSNSports.com.ng reports. 

This is because of the inability of the club to pay outstanding wages to its former goalkeeper and Super Eagles legend Bassey Akpan.

In a letter signed by the NPFL Head of Administration, Stanley Ike-Richard, sent to the Kano Pillars management and made available to sports journalists, the NPFL made it clear that given the existing ban, the club cannot sign or register new players ahead of the new season until the club pays the former player the outstanding sum of eleven million, eight hundred thousand naira(N11,800,000.00).

It will be recalled that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) through the Players’ Status/Arbitration Committee in a letter signed by the Secretary of the Committee, Joshua Onoja, Esq. ordered Kano Pillars to remit the outstanding sum of ₦11.8 million owed in arrears to their former goalkeeper Bassey Akpan within 21 days in June 2023, a decision the club is yet to comply with.

The 2023/24 NPFL season will kickoff this weekend with Kano Pillars playing on the road against Sunshine Stars after gaining promotion back to the Top Flight league.