By Amaechi Agbo

Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report authoritatively that Nigeria National League, NNL’s Twitter official account @nnationalleague has been dormant and none functional despite the current 2018/19 season entering Matchday 4 this weekend.

Another embarrassing findings made by this paper is the fact that in its Wikipedia profile, NNL retained Go Round FC as the current champions of the league.

Pride itself as the “most important” league in the country, NNL has not been able to maximize the huge potentials prevalent in today’s digitalised world.

As at the time of compiling this report, the NNL twitter handle was last used officially to report NNL event on March 20.

With story “Nigeria’s First Pre-Season Tournament @OgunjobiGoldCup presented NNL Chairman With meritorious award for Sustaining The growth Of Nigeria football,” aside that, as well as NNL last match matchbresult update was the playoff between Bendel Insurance and Delta Force FC.

“FT. @BendelInsurance 3-0 @deltaforcefc,” was the post and the handle has been inactive for two months.

On the Wikipedia profile, while the league was able to update the current 42 clubs playing in the league with their various groups, it however recognised Go Round FC as the current champions

Part of the Wikipedia profile reads “Current champions Go Round FC (2017)

“The 2019 Nigeria National League (NNL) will kick off April 10, and come to an end in July 2019. There were originally supposed to be four groups, but a week before the season they divided again into eight. The eventual group winners play another in a playoff (1 vs 2, 3 vs 4) to determine the four teams winning promotion.
Group A1,”

By recognising Go Round FC as the current Champion of the league in 2017, the implications of this is that there was no NNL in 2018.

Reacting, NNL Operating Officer, Nickolas Akujiobi, in an enquiry told our reporter that he was not aware of the non functionality of the Twitter handle.

“I am not aware of that. I will check the IT department to verify,” he said.

However, unlike the Twitter handle being dormant, the Facebook account has been active with matchday 3 results and league standing all uploaded.

Further findings by this paper show that there is a huge gap among the operators of the league’s media department with the league’s media officer, Amar Ignis said not to be in total control of the department.

This paper also gatherered that the media officer is not an admin of the Twitter handle and the IT person who opened the twitter account has refused to give him access to the account.