For members of the Nigeria Referees Association, NRA assigned to handle the Week 25 NPFL matches across ten centres today, the watchword remains good officiating.
President of the NRA, Otunba Tade Azeez gave the charge while wishing the match officials best of luck and journey mercies.
According to the President, no referee should compromise the established perfect officiating standard already in place adding that strict sanctions await defaulters.
Otunba Tade Azeez noted that the NRA has no stake in the NPFL than offer of good officiating irrespective of teams on parade. He therefore enjoined the teams to play by the rules for the growth of the domestic league.
A medical doctor and premier league referee of the Anambra state council will drop the stethoscope in Anambra State University Teaching Hospital for the whistle in Jos to take charge of the Plateau Utd vs Kwara Utd encounter assisted on the lines by Moses Alayimola and Muiz Giwa of Sokoto and Lagos Councils respectively.
In Lagos, a lawyer and one of the retired premier league referees who went to FIFA Futuro 111 course last year, Barr Cecilia Ugbuji, will be on the stands to assess the performances of the refereeing team led by an Army officer, Brigadier General A.O Fawole of the Kaduna State council. Running the lines as Assistants are FIFA Dung Musa of the Plateau State council and a woman Police Inspector, FIFA Abibatu Yusuf.
The NRA Auditor, Dantsoho M.S of the Kaduna Council is the Assessor of the game; Nassarawa United vs Akwa United, where an Owerri based building engineer, Uche Nwaegbe will handle alongside FIFA Abdulmajeed Usman ( Oyo) and Awal Usman ( Gombe) while the South South derby in Porthacourt; Rivers Utd vs Warri Wolves has a civil servant of the Ogun state government and Chairman of the state referees council, Obayemi Olatunbosun Ayodele at the centre.
PLATEAU UTD VS KWARA UTD
DALHA ADAMU KN Assessor
UDENNAKA CHIMEZIE AN Referee
ALAYIMOLA MOSES SK Assistant Referee 1
MUIZ GIWA LA Assistant Referee 2
LAMIDO AHMED YB Fourth Official
PROF A A MUSA KN Match Commissioner
WIKKI TOURIST VS KANO PILLARS
JAMES M RV
OLABIYI YOMI LA
GWANTANA LEWIS NS
ANYANU KINGSLEY IM
AKANIYE UDOETTE AK
SULEIMAN USMAN NS
JIGAWA G STARS VS HEARTLAND FC
AJANI I OS
NTA YUSUF NG
ABBA ABUBAKAR BA
AKINSULERE KAYODE OD
AUSTIN NEJI CR
DANLAMI ADI PL
LOBI STARS VS FC IFEANYIUBAH
KABIR Y BA
AGBA SAMUEL CR
YAKUBU DAZI KB
OLADOJA MUYIWA OY
HASSAN DAUDA YB
YAHUZA MAIHAJA ZM
DAKKADA FC VS RANGERS INT
FRANCIS JAMES TR
HONG ZUBAIRU AD
AYODEJI ADEBIYI OY
A TIJANI MUSTAPHA KT
EMEJE FRIDAY KG
IDOWU BAKARE FCT
RIVERS UTD VS WARRI WOLVES
KELECHI MEJUOBI IM
OBAYEMI OLATUNBOSUN OG
KABIRU ADAMU KD
MUSTAPHA M FCT
EZE EDWIN EN
JOACHIM OTUGEME AB
MFM FC VS ABIA WARRIORS
CECILIA U RV
GEN. FAWOLE O KD
DUNG MUSA PL
ABIBAT YUSUF RV
YAHAYA IKARA KD
AHMED SALIHU KB
ADAMAWA UTD VS ENYIMBA INT
OLOKOR KG
PATRICK ISHAYA KD
DANTALA ISA PL
FAROUK KAKALE KB
AKINFEMISOYE TOLU OD
ABUBAKAR NIMLAN PL
SUNSHINE STARS VS KATSINA UTD
MAYOS Y S AD
ABDULMUNINI ABDULRAHMAN PL
AMINU ADAMU SK
NKWOACHA HULDA FCT
AGUGUESI FRANKLYN IM
CHRISTOPHER NWOSU AB
NASARAWA UTD VS AKWA UTD
M.S KD
UCHE NWEGBE IM
ABDULMAJID USMAN OY
AWAL USMAN GM
ALIYU MADUGU KD
AMINU MOHD KN