NFF Declares Lack Of Funds To Accommodate Eagles In Zambia

An alarm has been raised by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over paucity of fund to facilitate the Super Eagles’ World Cup qualifiers match against the Chipolopolo of Zambia, which holds in Ndola on Sunday.
NFF President Amaju Pinnick, appeared before the Senate Committee on Sports, in Abuja, and lamented that lack of adequate funding was frustrating NFF’s efforts to operate efficiently.

said: “Nigeria was paired against Zambia, Cameroon and Algeria. It is a group that is called “group of death,” which means we need to intensify our preparations. We need to monitor our players and make sure that the ticket is made available.

“The good news is that I think we have a very sound technical crew and we also have a lot of our players doing very well, but the missing link is our financial incapacitation, which activates practically everything you do on the field and off the field.

“Before now, we have sent representation to government for intervention because funds were not coming in from our sponsors, which relates to the economy of the country at the moment, and is being very difficult for them. That is what they claim. So, we didn’t have any option than to result to writing to government, which we did and we are still awaiting response from them and the match is in five days.“