NEXT week’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against min-nows Chad would see the Nigeria Football Federation spend a whopping N120 million to settle bills of the large party of professionals invited for the match which takes place in Kaduna.
Coach Stephen Keshi’s invitation of 15 professional players house pay for ticket refunds and bonuses to the tune of $8,000(each), a bill NFF officials claim was too much to pay for playing Chad considered outsiders in African football.
Though they were not happy with the massive wage bill, they however have decided to carry on in the spirit of good relationship with Keshi.
The 15 professionals, some of whom should be on holidays in Nigeria already are to join the remaining eight home-based players Keshi retained for the same match.
In another development, those waiting to see Sylvanus Okpala team up with the technical crew of Keshi would have to wait for a long time as the football house are reluctant to bring him on-board.
Following his wrongful disengagement after the Eagles won the Nations Cup in South Africa in 2013, Okpala dragged the football house to Court of Arbitration for Sports where he won the case.
‘’We’re currently paying for his huge money as directed by CAS and are morally not obliged to bring him in now’’, an official of the federation said.
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