Giwa FC was on Wednesday readmitted into the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).
According to the League Management Company (LMC), the troubled team are being restored back to this season’s championship following an interim order from a Plateau State High Court.
It will be recalled that the club owned by factional president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Chris Giwa, were banned from the elite division in May after failing to honour three home games.
The LMC stated that the act was “in breach of the NPFL Framework & Rules for failing to honour three cumulative fixtures without acceptable reason.”
Due to their elimination from the topflight, players headed out of the Jos based club to save their careers.
And the league body has stated that these players now with other clubs in the league cannot feature in matches as the court order takes immediate effect.
The league company also revealed that “processes to reschedule matches concerning (the) Jos side (are) now being activated as directed by (the) Plateau State Court.”
But the LMC is not giving up on the ban imposed on the club.
An official statement by the company on its official website read in part that it will “approach the court and have the interim order set aside and the suit dismissed by the court for being frivolous and without merits whatsoever.”
The court in Jos will hear the matter on August 23.
