{"id":2518,"date":"2014-10-08T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:58:30","slug":"nff-will-improve-lmc-operation-amaju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"NFF will improve LMC operation \u2013Amaju"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2519\" alt=\"NFF president, Pinnick Amaju\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NFF president, Pinnick Amaju<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick has said his administration will work to improve the League Management Company to regularise its activities.<\/p>\n<p>The LMC is the manager of the country\u2019s elite league, the Glo Premier League, and Pinnick, who spoke on SuperSport on Monday, said the new administration would need to strengthen the company in order to raise the standard of the league.<\/p>\n<p>Amaju said, \u201cThe LMC is doing a very good job at present and we will sit with them and take a look at their books to see the areas we can come in for the better of our football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian League is growing and we will like to do more to increase the standard they have built. If we fail, then we have disappointed a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amaju also hinted at the possibility of replacing coach Stephen Keshi with a foreign coach if the need arise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very possible that we could get a foreign coach but first we have to give Keshi a chance. He is a hero and we should treat him as such,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has won the Africa Cup of Nations both as a player and as a coach for Nigeria and we must regard him with respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI very much support us having local coaches and I will encourage that. But if it happens that he can\u2019t continue, then we may get a foreign coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick has said his administration will work to improve the League Management Company to regularise its activities. The LMC is the manager of the country\u2019s elite league, the Glo Premier League, and Pinnick, who spoke on SuperSport on Monday, said the new administration would need to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NFF-president-Pinnick-Amaju-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-EC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}