Nigeria joins 13 other countries for CAF club licensing workshop

The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) will join 13 national leagues in Africa and the Australian League to participate in a Confederation of African Football (CAF) organised workshop on Club Licensing.
The workshop, which holds in Nairobi, Kenya will commence today (Monday), August 13 and end on Wednesday August 15th, 2018.
The Chief Operating Officer of the League Management Company (LMC), Malam Salihu Abubakar will lead the Nigerian delegation that also includes Team Manager of Rangers Internaional FC, Amobi Ezeaku (representating NPFL clubs) and Nasiru Jibril (representing the Nigeria Football Federation).
Countries participating in the workshop, apart from Nigeria, are hosts, Kenya, Egypt, Libya, Seychelles, Liberia, South Sudan and Angola.
Others are South Africa, Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Somalia.
It will be recalled that Nigeria has played a prominent role in evolving a club licensing process on the continent with Abubakar and Nasiru leading at different workshop sessions on club licensing.
The Nigerian model was praised by FIFA at one of such workshops and recommended to other federations to adopt.