Nigeria Premier Football League side Kano Pillars has been banned from registering new players ahead of the season by the league organizer because of the inability of the club to pay outstanding wages to its former goalkeeper Bassey Akpan.
In a letter signed by the NPFL Head of Admin, Stanley Ike-Richard, and sent to the Kano Pillars management and made available to sports journalists, the NPFL made it clear that given the existing ban, the club cannot sign or register new players ahead of the new season until the club pays the former player the outstanding sum of eleven million, eight hundred thousand naira(N11,800,000.00).
It will be recalled that the NFF through the Players’ Status/Arbitration Committee in a letter signed by the Secretary of the Committee, Joshua Onoja, Esq. ordered Kano Pillars to remit the outstanding sum of ₦11.8 million owed in arrears to their former goalkeeper Bassey Akpan within 21 days in June 2023, a decision the club is yet to comply with.
After being promoted back to the Top Flight competition, Kano Pillars will play on the road against Sunshine Stars this weekend to start off the 2023–24 NPFL season.
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