Osasu Obayiuwana BBC Sport

The current situation is unsatisfactory Nigeria FA chairman Ibrahim Galadima

Fifa's associations committee is to examine the progress made by Nigeria to regularise their statutes during their ongoing meeting in Zurich.

The congress of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) passed a new governing law into effect in December 2004, to meet Fifa's demand that the country's government plays no further role in the management of the NFA.

But the country's parliament is yet to abrogate the previous law which gives the government the power to do so.

"The associations committee is reviewing the situation in Nigeria and other African countries as part of its brief," Fifa deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne told BBC Sport on Thursday.

Fifa had given Nigeria until 31 December 2004 to abrogate the offending Decree 101 or face an international ban.

The decree gives the government powers to nominate the FA secretary-general and several members of the board, in contravention of Fifa regulations.

Football's governing body gave Nigeria a reprieve after firm promises were made by sports minister Musa Mohammed that the law would be removed from the statute books at the earliest possible time in the new year.

With the decree still on the statute books, Nigeria's FA has two conflicting football laws in existence, a fact which is not lost on Kanti Bello, a member of Nigeria's parliament and head of the senate's sports committee.

Senator Bello told BBC Sport that his committee is yet to receive a draft bill from the sports ministry abrogating the decree.

"We are concerned that we are yet to remove the decree from the statutes because Fifa trusted Nigeria to put its house in order and we do not want to be seen as abusing this trust.

"Although the cabinet have deliberated on this matter, we are yet to receive a draft bill from the sports ministry and I intend to find out why by next week," Bello said.

Musa Mohammed insists he has carried out his responsibilty

However, the sports minister insists that he has completed his statutory duty in the process needed to abrogate the decree.

"The Federal Executive Council (Nigeria's cabinet) has approved the change to the law. I have carried out my duty," Mohammed told BBC Sport on Thursday.

"It is now left in the hands of those that are meant to complete the job."

Nigeria FA chairman Ibrahim Galadima has admitted that the legal status of the association remains unclear.

"There is no doubt that the current [legal] situation is unsatisfactory," he told BBC Sport.

"We at the association have done our part to avoid Fifa sanctions and we hope the parliament will pass the required laws to guarantee our independence."