{"id":14197,"date":"2026-11-10T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/euromatch-npfl-nff-suspends-referee-assistant-over-kwara-united-disallowed-goal-against-rangers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:01:09","slug":"euromatch-npfl-nff-suspends-referee-assistant-over-kwara-united-disallowed-goal-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/euromatch-npfl-nff-suspends-referee-assistant-over-kwara-united-disallowed-goal-against-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROMATCH NPFL: NFF Suspends Referee, Assistant Over Kwara United Disallowed Goal Against Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Abdulrasheed Jimoh and assistant referee Adamu Zakari have been suspended indefinitely by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Refereeing Development Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The official EUROMATCH-NPFL account (@NigeriaPFL) announced the suspensions on 10 November 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the NPFL Matchday 12 fixture on Sunday, 8 November 2026, between Rangers International and Kwara United at the Awka Township Stadium (Rangers\u2019 temporary home). Rangers won 1-0 via Victor Chimezie\u2019s 40th-minute goal.<\/p>\n<p>In the 78th minute, Kwara United\u2019s Alex Jerry scored what appeared to be an equaliser but  officials disallowed it, citing a foul throw (the assistant referee\u2019s flag was raised before the ball crossed the line). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/npfl-sanctions-gombe-united-for-assault-on-match-officials\/\">NPFL Sanctions Gombe United For Assault On Match Officials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NFF committee reviewed the incident and determined it was a \u201cvalidly scored goal\u201d that should have stood. The decision was ruled to have affected the scoreline and match outcome while bringing refereeing and the game into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>Both officials have been stepped down immediately from all league and refereeing activities and removed from the 2026\/27 NPFL list of referees and assistant referees. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>By James Agberebi<br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Abdulrasheed Jimoh and assistant referee Adamu Zakari have been suspended indefinitely by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Refereeing Development Committee. The official EUROMATCH-NPFL account (@NigeriaPFL) announced the suspensions on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}