{"id":64073,"date":"2025-04-11T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64073"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:11:09","slug":"npfl-slams-3sc-with-n7m-fine-stadium-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/11\/npfl-slams-3sc-with-n7m-fine-stadium-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL Slams 3SC with N7m Fine, Stadium Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shooting Stars Sports Club has been hit with a hefty N7 million fine and slapped with a stadium ban for the remainder of the season following violent incidents at their home ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Premier Football League dropped the hammer on Wednesday, punishing 3SC for their failure to control an unruly crowd during a fiery Matchday 32 clash against Ikorodu City on April 6 at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>The league found the club guilty of multiple offences, including inadequate security, poor crowd management, and failure to prevent the assault on Ikorodu City players and the vandalism of the visiting team&#8217;s bus.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the Ibadan-based club were also accused of harassing match officials and hurling dangerous objects onto the pitch, further worsening the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the NPFL directed 3SC to pay the fine promptly and barred supporters from attending home matches for the rest of the campaign. The club has been given 48 hours to either accept the sanctions or file an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment sends a strong warning across the league as authorities crack down on violence and misconduct in the nation\u2019s top football division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Shooting Stars Sports Club has been hit with a hefty N7 million fine and slapped with a stadium ban for the remainder of the season following violent incidents at their home ground. The Nigeria Premier Football League dropped the hammer on Wednesday, punishing 3SC for their failure to control an unruly crowd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":64074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59,1155],"class_list":["post-64073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-npfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64075,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64073\/revisions\/64075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}