About 35 selected international referees and accompanying elite referees drawn from the premier and women referees of Nigeria will take part in the FIFA Member Association, MA course, commencing today in Abuja.
The MA Course is an annual ritual packaged by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, as part of the refresher courses and developmental programs of the football house, to broaden the knowledge of referees concerning the Laws of Game and advanced refereeing techniques.
Latest developments in the Laws of the Game and tactical finesse in officiating will dominate the course that involves class and field activities.
Already, two high powered FIFA Technical and Physical Fitness Instructors; Noumandiez Desire Doue of Cote D Ivoire and Tunisia’s Boubaker Hannachi respectively, have arrived the country for the course from now till the 24th of September 2021.
The participants are;
2021 MA ELITE COURSE AND NATIONAL ELITE REFEREES
INTERNATIONAL REFEREES
1. Adebimpe Quadri
2. Basheer Salihu
3. Ogabor Joseph
4. Abubakar Abdullahi
5. Nurudeen Abubakar
6. Grema Mohammed
FIFA ASSISTANT REFEREES [MEN]
1.Digbori Tejiri
2.Egudia Efosa
3.Peter Ogwu
4.Sam Pwadutakan
5.Usman Isa
6.Usman Abdulmajid
7. Hope Igho
FIFA REFEREES [WOMEN]
1.Madu Nnidi Patience
2.Hannah Eliagwu
3.Akintoye Yemisi
4.Alaba Oluwafunmilayo
FIFA ASSISTANT REFEREES [WOMEN]
1.Iyorhe Mimisen A.
2.Terah Kabeda Beauty
3. Abibat Yusuf Iyadunni
4.Friday Mfon Akpan
2021 INVITED NATIONAL ELITE REFEREE FOR MA COURSE
MEN
1.Nwaegbe Uche IM
2.Faro Abdulrahman LG
3.Idowu Samuel OG
4.Mohammed Zakari NG
5.Madaki Abdulmalik FCT
6.Faisal Inuwa BA
7.Auwal Usman GM
8.Abdusalam Kassim ZM
9.Habibu Ghali KN
10.Ahmad Tijjani KT
11.Adamu Zakari JG
WOMEN
1.Aiseosa Agbons Faith ED
2.Nweke Patience IM
3.Scholastica Ikeobi AN
PHYSICAL FITNESS INSTRUCTOR
1.Engr. Emmanuel E. Imiere - FIFA NATIONAL RAP Fitness Instructor
COACH/CHIEF TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR
2.Chukwudi Chukwujekwu – FIFA Technical Instrucor
PHYSICAL FITNESS INSTRUCTORS
1. Abraham D. Zakowi – FIFA/CAF Fitness Instructor
2. Stella A. Eloji (Mrs) – FIFA/CAF Fitness Instructor
3. Bolanle C. Sekiteri-Ajayi FIFA Fitness Instructor
4. Maryam S. Indo
FIFA Fitness Instructor
5.Ibrahim Fagge
FIFA Fitness Instrctor
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTORS
1.Felicia Okwugba Okonji
2.Peter Edibe
3.Cecilla Ugbuji
4.Ago Abubakar
5.Aminu Mohammed
I.T instructor
1.Promise Uwaeme
SUPPORT STAFF FROM THE NFF SECRETARIAT
1. Omiwole Taiwo
2. Jaja Ibitoru
The NRA President, Otunba Tade Azeez who expressed happiness with the development and appreciated the NFF for the program wishes all participants best of luck and journey mercies
