The Annual General Assembly meeting, (AGM) of the Nigerian National League, (NNL), has proposed a direct promotion for all eight qualified teams from its four groups to the elite league, Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL).
Rising from their Annual General Meeting (AGM) held during the weekend in Abuja, the NNL congress also agreed to cancel the 2018 Super 8 competition which was usually the way to determine teams that get promoted to the NPFL.
The congress blamed the crisis that rocked the Nigeria football and said that the decision was taken in the best interest of football.
The proposal is expected to be submitted to the League Management Company (LMC) ahead of a meeting of top stakeholders to discuss the final outcome of the proposal.
The new arrangement if it scales through will have the top finisher and winners in each of the four groups of NNL abridged leagues gaining promotion to NPFL. The eight teams penciled down for promotion are: Gombe United, Kogi United, Kada…
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