The Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan decided to reverse his decision to ban his country’s team from international competition for two years. The decision also overturns the decision to dissolve the Nigerian Football Association.

Mr. Jonathan attributed his decision to the amount of support for the team and association in his Facebook page. The other possibility has been the threat of sanctions and expulsion from FIFA which prohibits government interference in football/soccer.

I applaud the decision to reverse the ban on international competition as well as the reverse of the dissolution of the Nigerian Football Association. Sports and Politics (as well as Sports and Government) should be separated.

What needs to be done is for Nigerian Football to start thinking what happened and learn from the experience.

Wilson Ajua (a lawyer who is owner of the Rainbow FC) has talked about the need to separate sports from politics at the local level in his country. He challenged Nigeria to rebuild from below.

How to rebuild from below is a topic that Nigeria will have to address for itself if it is to prepare itself for future football/soccer events

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