SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, (THEWILL) – Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said there was no evidence of any official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) being linked to an allegation of US$30,000 bribe.
The Africa football governing body has therefore ordered the South African Football Association to render an apology to NFF.
The South Africans had linked the match fixing attempt in the Total CAF Confederation Cup 1/16th round first leg between Plateau United (Nigeria) and USM Alger (Algeria) played on 7 April 2018 in Lagos to the NFF.
It thereby called on CAF President, Ahmed Ahmed, to raise punitive measure against NFF.
But, CAf said after thorough investigations it has been able to establish that no person in the glasshouse was directly or indirectly involve in the attempted match manipulation for the match.
However, the CAF Referees Committee said it has confirmed the recommendation of its Disciplinary Board to ban Nigeria referee Joseph Ogabor from any official mission for one year for attempted match manipulation.
