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Nigeria To Spend $.6m On Hotel
Nigeria’s bill for their new lodgings at the Protea Waterfront Hotel will cost around $600,000 for just the opening round of the World Cup.
This is in addition to the $125 000 the country will have to shell out to the Hampshire Hotel as compensation for breaking an earlier agreement to stay there.
The Waterfront bill for covers the Eagles stay from five nights before kickoff until the end of June as insisted on by the hotel, with the Nigeria contingent taking up 75 rooms at the hotel.
This is despite the fact that Nigeria’s last group game is on June 22, a full eight days before the last day of the month.
“That is what all the hotels in South Africa insisted on to the participating teams, and there was nothing we could do about it”.
Payment for the booking is being held up as the NFF are yet to receive their World Cup grant from the Nigerian government despite having had approval granted.