Broke Nigeria Football Federation
(NFF) have been dealt yet another huge financial blow as world football
governing body FIFA announced they have stopped their annual $1.5 development
grant after they found “traces of corruption” in how previous monies have been
spent by the NFF.
AfricanFootball.com also learnt FIFA
went further to issue the NFF a FINAL warning “to straighten their financial
records”.
The Nigerian government is now
expected to quickly step into this latest international embarrassment caused by
the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF after sports minister Solomon Dalung first expressed
serious misgivings on the back of a FIFA query on how NFF used grants paid
them.
NFF received the damning letter by
FIFA this week and it was signed from the office in charge of the national associations.
FIFA member-associations including
Nigeria began to receive increased annual grants under new president Gianni
Infantino.
Previously the associations were
paid $250,000 per annum.
But this has since been increased to
between $1.2 million and $1.5 million to each FA.
The FIFA hammer comes at a time
anti-corruption agency EFCC are also investigating a petition against the NFF
and auditors questioned the handling of the federation’s finances for the past
fiscal year.
Source:Daily Trust
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