Improve on your performance, Gusau tasks Elegbeleye-led NPFL board

<p>•as league gets August 26 kick-off date</p>, <p>President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has challenged the newly-inaugurated board of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) led by a former Director General of the defunct National Sports Commission (NSC), Honourable Gbenga Elegbeleye, to improve the league and make it more attractive to sponsors.</p>, <p>Gusau stated this on Wednesday while inaugurating the board at the NFF Conference Room in Abuja. Tribune Sports recall that Elegbeleye was appointed last season by Gusau as the chairman of the now defunct Interim Management Committee (IMC) which not only delivered on its mandate but give the league a facelift.</p>, <p>The NFF president who praised Elegbeleye and his colleagues for a job well done last season said they were brought back for continuity while asking them to come out with a league that Nigeria and indeed the world would be proud of. He however tasked them on the issue of club licensing which he said is the way to go if Nigeria wants to do it right as it is done in normal clime.</p>, <p>“We brought back most people from the Interim Management Committee (IMC) because we want continuity. It is not because we like their faces or we want anything. But the issue here is if you can give someone responsibility and he does a good job for you, you will thank him and even give him the opportunity to do more. Basically, we are doing this to ensure continuity. If they can do it in one season we expect to see more because Nigerians are still yearning for change as far as our league is concerned.</p>, <p>“And I want to bring it to your notice that we cannot achieve that change and you have to be strict and serious about club licensing and that we are not going to compromise. It must start from a certain level to a certain level. But we must have a target. This year as far as our progress is concerned for this season, this is the target we have put in place for our clubs and we must meet that target before a club is allowed