Safety forces are controlling who enters the primary workplace of the crisis-hit Nigerian Soccer Federation within the capital Abjua, BBC Sport has discovered.
Troopers and riot police are manning the doorway of the constructing.
It follows final week’s courtroom ruling that NFF president Amaju Pinnick misplaced his publish to Chris Giwa in elections in September 2014.
Giwa and his group had stated they might occupy and take over the NFF workplaces to start out work on Monday.
The NFF has appealed towards the courtroom ruling, insisting that Pinnick continues to be the top of the federation.
And employees of the Fifa-recognised NFF, together with the overall secretary Mohammed Sanusi, are at present working within the constructing.
Giwa’s faction and all different non-NFF employees have been denied entry into the soccer home by police, who’ve been in attendance since Sunday.
“We obtained right here this morning and the police requested our id playing cards, then we have been let into our workplaces,” an NFF employees member advised BBC Sport.
“Solely these with none proof of NFF identifications are prevented from coming to the constructing.”
The continued energy wrestle means Nigeria face the prospect of a Fifa ban, which might put their World Cup qualification hopes in jeopardy.
