Broke Nigeria Football Federation are yet to pay the Super Eagles a $30,000-a-man win bonus for beating Burkina Faso in the AFCON final.
Broke Nigeria Football Federation are yet to pay the Super Eagles a $30,000-a-man win bonus for beating Burkina Faso in the AFCON final.
However, the team is yet to receive what was promised them for winning the cup final, according to the Punch newspapers.
NFF general secretary Musa Amadu was not forthcoming when he was asked about this matter.
He said tersely, “I cannot confirm or deny it. That’s the much I can say about it.”
By Thursday many of the players had returned to their overseas bases without the pay.
Victor Moses and Efe Ambrose did not return to the country with the team as they joined their clubs in London and Glasgow respectively direct from South Africa.
Mikel Obi returned to Chelsea soon after President Goodluck Jonathan hosted them at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
NFF president Aminu Maigari hinted during the Presidential reception for the victorious Eagles that the association face very hard times after the 700 million Naira (about $4.4 million) approved for the Nations Cup campaign will now be deducted from the NFF annual allocation, which was not the case in the past.
Rows over win bonuses have been frequent with the national teams, but that appeared to have stopped in the last three years until now.
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