FIFA Appoints Maigari Committee Member

World football –governing body, FIFA, has appointed the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari as a member of its Players’ Status Committee.

The Players’ Status Committee is one of the most powerful committees in FIFA.

His appointment was contained in a letter FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke, wrote to the Nigeria Football Federation.

FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, has announced at the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich on 31 May and 1 June, 2011, the composition of the FIFA standing committees which has now been revised and completely restructured.

Maigari, a member of the NFF Executive Committee between 2006 and 2010, has been President of the Nigeria Football Federation since August 2010.