NSC Unveils Revised Guidelines For Sports Federations Boards’ Elections

In a bold determination aimed astatine enhancing transparency and integrity wrong the Nigerian sports sector, the National Sports Commission (NSC) has released revised guidelines governing the elections into the boards of the National Sports Federations (NSFs).

The guidelines, unveiled yesterday, acceptable distant a broad model designed to guarantee that lone qualified and credible individuals are elected to pb the country’s sports federations.

The revised guidelines, arsenic delineated successful the instauration of the document, the predetermination process is captious for the governance, performance, and advancement of sports successful Nigeria. The committee emphasises that robust and transparent electoral guidelines are indispensable for aligning Nigeria’s sports assemblage with planetary champion practices.

The guidelines specify the creation of NSF boards, eligibility criteria, predetermination protocols, and the constitution of assorted electoral committees, portion the elections volition beryllium conducted nether the cautious supervision of some the NSC and the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), which volition enactment arsenic electoral observers to guarantee transparency and fairness passim the predetermination process, guaranteeing elections are conducted lone for candidates of precocious motivation quality and competence, promoting inclusivity among others.

In the revised guidelines, each NSF committee volition dwell of 14 members, including a President, a Vice President, and 12 different members, arsenic specified successful their applicable constitutions. Notably, the boards volition besides see representatives from assorted constituencies: zonal representatives, athletes, coaches, subject and para-military representatives, planetary bodies, and advocacy groups focused connected women successful sports.

On the eligibility, the guidelines states that, candidates indispensable conscionable respective requirements to suffice for committee membership:

– Be a Nigerian national and astatine slightest 25 years aged (athletes’ representatives indispensable beryllium a minimum of 18), person acquisition qualifications not beneath a Secondary School Certificate oregon its equivalent, person nary transgression grounds and support bully ethical standards, escaped from immoderate disparagement toward the NSC oregon NOC and supply grounds of progressive information successful sports wrong the six months earlier the elections.

According to the revised guidelines, the predetermination process volition commence with the merchandise of information forms connected 6th September 2025, followed by a bid of deadlines and predetermination activities culminating successful the nationalist elections astatine the MKO Abiola National Stadium connected 18th October 2025. Voting volition hap via concealed ballot, with strict regulations against proxy voting oregon immoderate signifier of electoral malpractice. The NSC has besides established mechanisms for petitions and appeals to guarantee that candidates person avenues for addressing grievances related to the electoral process.

Dr (Mrs) Kehinde Ajayi, manager of property astatine the NSC, emphasised that these guidelines are pivotal to fostering a civilization of fairness and transparency successful Nigerian sports governance, saying NSC encourages each eligible candidates to enactment actively successful the electoral process, arsenic it plays a captious relation successful shaping the aboriginal of sports successful the country.