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In the mid -90s, there was a joke on the Nigeria Football Federation: the Nigeria Football Association, as was known then.
‘Without future ambition’, this was the term used to describe the country’s Apex football body, for experts, interested parties and fans.
There is a degree of “anyway” that an organization even reaches our standards where custodians are considered with very little faith and no good is expected.
The successive leaders of the NFF have enjoyed enjoying the success stories of national teams and none more than the Super Falcons.
The most successful female team in Africa, the call of individual and team praise over the years, have been part of the victory plates that hang on the walls of the NFF building in Abuja, but this team receives only a fleeting recognition before the clock occurs to five.
The most recent case of this very indifferent relationship would be the team qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games and the Women’s Africa Nations Cup 2024.
While the qualification for Paris 2024 appeared prominently as an achievement in the first year of the NFF presidency of Ibrahim Gusau, in an end of the year direction, the main honcho of the FA would then sign what seems to be a hurriedly conceived media campaign for a tenth Wafcon title.
However, while this frenzy was launched, the team’s senior players joined to raise pertinent concerns around the female game.
The leaders shared negligence stories for the players of the national team, poor well -being and only days for 2024 Wafcon the auspicious question of an accumulation of unpaid assignments.
More than 329 days have passed between the Olympic Games in Paris and Nigeria’s opening game at the Wafcon.
Even with the late announcement for the tournament in Morocco, I would expect that in any ideal situation, a responsible FA would have established movement processes to address all concerns before another important tournament.
A financial budget for the year, marketing initiatives with partners to commit to an flagship tournament and, more importantly, the agreement of a kit with the global brand Nike should cover a considerable amount of the needs of the team, which inadvertently turned out to be a shame for the NFF today in Morocco.
.@Ngsuper_falcons Kit update: there is no good news, I’m afraid … a week after #Wafcon kit, as supplied by @nikefootballHe arrived in Morocco, is still in the ADII warehouse, the country’s customs and special tax service. @Thenff He is still “working to get it”, a team official … https://t.co/yhmkcklhl
– Osasu Obayiuwana (@osasuo) July 13, 2025
The offices of the NFF Secretary General or even the president have not been able to provide answers to these questions, whether the displacement time for some form of intervention or with the hope of his atypical style that the pressure sinks before issuing a great statement.
However, what is clear is that the cycle of shame is in motion and, although the shocking scenes in 2004 and 2016, where players organized sitting protests to press demands at the house of unpaid rights, may not resurface, one thing sounds true with the NFF, old habits die hard.
