The current Nigeria League season might not end as scheduled, as a high court in Jos has ordered the League Management company and the Nigeria Football Federation to reinstate expelled Premier League side, Giwa Football club of Jos.The order also asked the NFF and LMC to reschedule all the matches the club missed during the expulsion.It further asked the LMC to return all the players of Giwa FC who left and registered for other football clubs as of its purported expulsion from the league, pending the determination of the motion on notice for the enforcement fundamental hum,an rights which is pending before the court.Giwa FC was expelled from the Nigeria Professional Football League for failing to obey the ruling of the LMC and the NFF disciplinary committee which had banished it to Ilorin for crowd trouble.The club had argued that it would amount to contempt, since there was a court judgement which declared them non existence.Subsequently, the club went to court to challenge the decision to expel it from the league.According to court papers obtained b y our correspondent, an interim injunction restraining the NFF and the LMC from further organizing, scheduling or playing any or all matches and or fixtures in the Nigerian Professional Football League without Giwa FC pending the determination of the motion in notice.Justice I I Kunda, who gave the orders, said:The respondents are jkointly and severally mandated to restore Giwa Football Club to the NPFL pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for the enforcement of the fundamental human right which is pending before this honourable court.
