As teams gear up for the commencement of the 2020/2021 Nigerian Professional Football League Season, officials and players of Nasarawa United Football Club, today, had their samples taken for the COVID-19 test on Wednesday

Team Manager, Solomon Babanjah, told the Press shortly after the sample collection at the Nasarawa State Agency for Infectious Disease and Research Centre in Lafia that the test was necessary as it was part of the requirements listed out by the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) and League Management Company(LMC) to clubs before the commencement of the new football league season in the country.

“This is a necessary requirement by the authorities concerned and we have to abide by it, going by our pedigree”, Solo said.

He explained that all those that matter in the Lafia-based Club underwent the mandatory test, stating further that the results were being anticipated in due course.