When Anezi Okoro wrote his comedic novel, One Week, One Trouble, about a boy who got into trouble in school almost every week, he never knew it would fit into the character of the Nigeria Football Federation, especially the current one headed by Ibrahim Musa Gusau.
Like the proverbial tortoise that is always in the news for some mischievous behaviours, the Gusau-led Board of the NFF is always in the news for actions tied to incompetence. From their first day in office till this day, they have not shown they have the capacity to turn around the fortunes of the countrys football. They have shown over the years that they are competition driven and have no idea on how to develop the countrys football.
No wonder Gusau once boasted that they always qualified for competitions, be it at regional, continental or world levels. When the Super Falcons qualified to play the last Womens African Cup of Nations tagged WAFCON, the NFF code-named it Mission X, because the team were going for their 10th title, the only team in the continent with such a record. It didnt bother them that the same team these days struggled to beat smaller African countries they beat by as much as four or five goals in the past. Other countries are now standing toe to toe with Nigeria, not even Ghana and Cameroon that gave them a run for their money.