NFF Refutes $1.5million Bond Receipt From NNPC To Pay Foreign Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has debunked online-media reports that secured $1.5m bond from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to finance the appointment of a new foreign coach for the country’s senior national team, Super Eagles.

Following the Federal Government’s refusal to render financial assistance to the Glass House’s quest to hire an expatriate coach for the Super Eagles ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, reports emerged that the NFF has taken out a bond with the nation’s oil and gas operator to pay its prospective employee.

The NFF General Secretary, Dr Sanusi Mohammed, in his reaction to the report, revealed that he was unaware of anything of the sort and that he was not aware of “any move to get a $1.5m bond from NNPC.”

He said: “I am not aware of it and I can tell you that there is nothing of such. In fact, we have no arrangement with the NNPC for anything about the Super Eagles coach,” he said

The NFF, on Friday, short-listed former Ethiopian coach Tom Sainfiet, current care-take coach Salisu Yusuf and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once handed Cameroon, as candidates for the job of coaching the Eagles. The name of the coach preferred by the NFF would be announced on July 18.