"But just two days after the Nigerian government made that unprecedented announcement, it was threatened with sanctions from Zurich unless it recanted its stand. FIFA, the body that regulates football globally gave the Nigerian government a rather short time span to "cancel its direction to withdraw Nigeria's participation from all FIFA and CAF [the African organ] competitions for the next two years." It invoked its rules which mandates the suspension of national football associations where governments are seen to be interfering in their operations as the Nigerian government so clearly was. Therefore, just before the FIFA deadline arrived on 5 July 2010, the Nigerian President ate humble pie by lifting the two-year ban. In my next post, I will review the implications of the Nigeria/FIFA exchange and situate it within the emerging shift in international law from state authority to private regulatory institutions like FIFA."
Dear friends,
I'm starting a weekly blog dedicated to discussing global legal developments but with a bias for Africa. The shape of international law is changing. The United Nations is becoming more and more irrelevant while private regulatory institutions are gaining unprecedented prominence. In a two-part series I examine how this is shaping out in Africa. I emblematize my interest by looking at FIFA and how (even though a corrupt and dictatorial organization) its powers challenges our traditional understandings of sovereignty and state authority.
The rest is here: http://africanlegalviewpoints.blogspot.ca/
Basil
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