Jonathan Makes CHAN Eagles Millionaires

President Goodluck Jonathan has announced a cash reward of N1 million to each member of the Super Eagles that won bronze at the 2014 African Nations Championship.
At a reception for the squad in Abuja yesterday, President Jonathan commended the players for showing the true Nigerian spirit especially for their efforts in overturning a 3-goal deficit to beat Morocco 4-3 in the quarter final of the tournament.
Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Keshi got N1.5million while his assistants received N1 million each.
The team’s backroom staff got N500,000 each.
Nigeria made its maiden appearance at the third edition of the CHAN tournament that is strictly for only home-based players, beating Zimbabwe to clinch bronze at the competition in South Africa.
Meanwhile, Nigeria Football Federation president Alhaji Aminu Maigari has rubbished talk the footballing body sought to impose a foreign assistant on Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi.
“At no time did anyone in the NFF, whether myself, the Executive Committee or the Management, contemplated, suggested, recommended or even tried to impose the idea of a foreign technical assistant, foreign technical adviser, expatriate assistant or whatever on Mr Keshi,” Maigari said.
“Some idle souls with fertile imagination invented this, sold it to their friends in the media and those chaps took it up with aplomb. It is a shame. The NFF made it clear long ago that it would not impose anyone on Keshi, and that will remain so.
“It is even more shameful that a number of disco critics had gone further to hurl insults at the NFF for this speculation that we know nothing about,” Maigari said in Abuja.
Insisting that the present NFF administration deserves credit for the way it has stuck by indigenous coaches and for the successes it has recorded to regain Nigeria’s pride of place in the international game, Maigari called on football-loving Nigerians at home and in the diaspora to discountenance the silly campaign and treat it for what it is … idle speculation of opponents of Nigeria football.
“The present NFF has, in thick and thin, kept faith with indigenous coaches. It is the first administration in the history of the NFF to do so. And over time, we have pledged full support to Keshi and the squad for them to make a very big impact at the FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil.
“Nothing has changed. Our full support will be available for Keshi and the team at all times and since he has not mentioned the issue of a foreign technical assistant or expatriate expert – no-one in the NFF is thinking along that line.”