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The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has lifted the suspension clamped on Nigeria since July 9 as a result of a court order barring the Aminu Maigari-led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Executive Committee and the NFF congress from controlling and managing the affairs of the game.

In a letter captioned ‘Lifting of the suspension of the Nigeria Football Federation’ signed by FIFA secretary-general, Jerome Valcke, and addressed to the NFF president, Aminu Maigari, the body stated clearly that it received the correspondence of Thursday, July 17 from the NFF and was satisfied that Nigeria has complied with its demands for reinstatement into international football.

“Since the conditions set by the FIFA Emergency Committee on July 9, 2014 have been met, the suspension of the Nigeria Football Federation is lifted with immediate effect. The lifting of the suspension means that all of NFF’s membership rights have been reinstated, as defined in Article 12 of FIFA Statutes.

“The NFF is therefore entitled to take part again in international competitions and to benefit from all programmes which were suspended.”

Consequently, the NFF has stepped up arrangements to ensure that the U-20 Women National Team, Falconets, travel to Moncton, Canada next week for a final training camp ahead of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup taking place in the same country; and for the U-17 team to fly to Democratic Republic of Congo for a 2015 African U-17 Championship qualifier on Sunday, July 27.