The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has denied online-media reports that it has received $1.5m bond from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to finance the appointment of a new foreign coach for the Super Eagles.
Following the insistence of the Federal Government that it would not render any form of financial assistance to the NFF’s quest to hire an expatriate coach for the Super Eagles ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, news emerged that the NFF has taken out a bond with the nation’s oil and gas operator to pay its prospective employee.
However, the government endorsed such appointment if the board of the NFF could guarantee the payment of the said coach.
In his reaction, the NFF General Secretary, Dr Sanusi Mohammed, 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.