The Nigerian top-flight has been rechristened the Nigeria Premier Football League.
The Nigeria Football Federation has ratified the change of name of the Nigeria Professional Football League to the Nigeria Premier Football League before the start of the 2023/23 season.
This was done at the 79th general assembly of the country’s
football governing body on Sunday in Uyo.
“The congress approved the change of name of the Nigeria
Professional Football League to the Nigeria Premier Football League,” NFF said
in a communique.
The new board of the NPFL had paraded the league as the
Nigeria Premier Football League, launching a new logo and new name for the
league but the NFF had also insisted that only the congress has the power to
change the name.
The 2023/24 NPFL season was scheduled to kick-off on
Saturday, September 9 with a curtain raiser between 3SC and Plateau United in
Ibadan but the league suffered another postponement due to what the board
called exigencies around its sponsorship.
A new date for the kick-off is expected to be announced in
due course.
Enyimba won the league last season during the Super 6
playoffs in Lagos to be crowned champions for a record nine times.