In as much as we all love the progress made in recent times by the Nigeria referees association and NFF Referees Committee, in which CAF and FIFA Referees Committee now look in the direction of our referees for matches.
With the development and training, which ensure that our referees are promoted and equipped with the latest techniques to face the challenges of modern day officiating.
It is a know facts that the Nigeria referees are good, judging with the exploit of Mimisen Agatha Iyorhe at the just concluded women nations cup, and the recent invitation extended to Abel Baba to be part of officials for next year nations cup that will hold in Gabon in 2017.
The Nigeria referees committee on Monday released the list of referees invited for 2016 / 2017 super 4 tournament, which will kick starts on Wednesday in Enugu.
To a point it is believed that the addition of Abel Baba to the list could be counter productive for the committee, in as the committee wants to use the tournament to prepare Abel for Gabon, it can be said that the timing is ill-timed, this is someone that just finished the vigorous NRA fitness test , and knowing fully well that he is going to take another fitness test in Gabon, why not allow him to rest instead of inviting him to be part of the super 4.
The only Elite B referee we have, is not even looked at, this is someone that is just came back from a training organized by CAF in Cameroun, who is fresh with ideas and yet NFF Referees Committee do not see it fit for Ferdinand Udoh to be in Enugu for the super 4.
The super 4 tournament should be for the best in the land and not for referees that were promoted to premiership last season.
The list of referees invited for this season super 4 are as follows,
REFEREES
Hannah Elaigwu
Adebimpe Quadri
Ago Abubakar
Bashir Salihu
Abdullahi Shuaibu
Joseph Ogabor
ASSISTANT REFEREES
Abel Baba
Samuel Pwadutakam
Peter Ogwu Friday
Usman Abdulmajeed
Igudia Osifo
Iyorhe Mimisen
