Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) players have been commended for a clean bill in the results of random tests carried out by the National Anti-Doping Committee (NADC) of Nigeria.
Otunba Gbenga Elegbeleye, the NPFL Chairman, welcomed the release of the test results communicated to the league in a letter from the NADC.
The agency also indicated plans to continue with the drug testing exercise in the new season and sought the support of the league.
“I am very satisfied with the outcome of the tests on our players carried out by the NADC, and I want to commend our players for staying clean,” Elegbeleye said in his reaction to the content of the letter.
In the letter sent to the NPFL, Odo Raphael Okafor, the Deputy Director/Head of Drug Testing, recalled that the tests were conducted to keep the sport of football clean and add integrity to the NPFL.
“As you are quite aware, NADC, in her effort to keep the sports of football clean and add integrity
to the league, in line with the World Anti-Doping Code, started drug testing with the 2023/2024
league season.
“Out of the thirty-two (32) Urine sample tests carried out in a randomly selected match fixture, all the results came out to be negative. This indicates that out of the randomly selected players, none is using a substance prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). This is commendable,” Okafor wrote in the letter.
The doping agency informed the NPFL that it would resume random testing of players at selected league matches for the 2025/26 season.
“In NADC, continued effort and commitment in maintaining fair play, integrity and protecting the health of our sportsmen and women, we wish to carry out drug testing in some randomly selected matches in the 2025/2026 league season,” the NADC stated.
In the ongoing season, the NADC indicated that it plans to carry out 16 tests in four match fixtures that would be selected at random.
It sought the support of the NPFL to complete the task.
Elegbeleye assured the agency of support for their activities in the new season, saying, “The agency is going to receive total support from the NPFL to ensure another successful round of testing.”
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