NFF President Denies New Contract For Keshi

Contrary to earlier reports, the Nigeria
Football Federation, NFF, has informed that
no deal has been agreed with out-of-contract
Super Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi.
There have been reports suggesting that the
football federation has offered Keshi an improved
contract reportedly worth N84 million per annum.
According to the reports, Keshi would be handed a
new contract for a year starting from January 2015
and would run till December of the same year.
However, while speaking on a monitored sports
programme on Radio in Lagos, NFF president Amaju
Pinnick played down the reports of a new improved
contract has been offered to Keshi.
Coach Stephen Keshi
When asked about the new N7 million-a-month deal
to Keshi, Pinnick said: "At the moment, we have not
come to that yet."
Meanwhile, Keshi's representative, Emmanuel Addo,
had told supersport.com at the weekend that
reports of a new deal to Keshi were "not true."
"The reports are not true. Where did you pick that
from? Let's wait and see," Addo stated.
It would be recalled that Keshi has been out of
contract since July when the 2014 FIFA World Cup
ended in Brazil.
The Big Boss, as he is nicknamed, previously earned
N5 million per month during his first reign as
Nigeria head coach. But since he failed to qualify the
Super Eagles for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations,
there have been calls for Keshi to be sacked.
Keshi has handled the Eagles without a contract
after his initial three-year deal ran out after the
2014 World Cup in Brazil.
A lingering leadership tussle that dogged Nigeria
football in the past four months delayed the coach
signing a new deal.
The former coach of Togo and Mali national teams
was re-instated as Nigeria's head coach in October
after the NFF executive committee led by Amaju
Pinnick had initially replaced him with Shuaibu
Amodu.
However, Keshi's reinstatement could not ensure
that the Eagles qualified for the 2o15 AFCON to be
hosted in Equatorial Guinea after a 2-2 draw against
South Africa.
Pinnick had disclosed recently that Keshi and his
crew would be sponsored by the NFF to go for a
refresher course abroad.
Meanwhile, the NFF has mourned the death of
former Stationery Stores FC and Green Eagles'
legend, Yomi Peters, who died in Lagos on
Wednesday at the age of 71.

Posted By David Aniemeka