The ban according to the world football governing body is with immediate effect.
The committee chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert, banned the former CAF and FIFA executive committee member from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level.
In a statement issued after the committee’s sitting in Zurich, Switzerland on Tuesday, Adamu’s fresh ban followed an investigation conducted by Dr Cornel Borbély, chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, which resulted in a final report being submitted to the adjudicatory chamber on 2 December 2016.
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“The adjudicatory chamber determined that, through his involvement in the organisation of an event in 2010, while being a member of the (then) FIFA Executive Committee, Mr Adamu violated articles 13 (General rules of conduct), 15 (Loyalty) and 19 (Conflicts of interest) of the FIFA Code of Ethics,” the statement read in part.
Adamu, an ex-president of the West African Football Union (WAFU) and a member of the executive committees of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA, was slammed a three-year ban in 2010 by FIFA’s ethics committee after he and fellow ExCo member, Reynald Temarii was caught selling their support ahead of the votes on which country should host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.