Controversy Trails N14m Keshi’s Salary

Tidesports source has scooped that Nigerian Sports Minister, Tammy Danagogo has paid coach Stephen Keshi for the past two months to further undermine the authority of the NFF over the coach.
It was understood that Keshi has been paid N14 million (about $83,000) for October and November by sports minister Tammy Danagogo even though there is no contractual agreement between the coach and the NFF.
A top source informed Tidesports source that, “The minister has been paying Keshi directly from the NFF subvention without any input from the NFF.
“This cannot be good for the relationship between employer and employee.”
Keshi was in charge for the AFCON qualifiers double header against Sudan in October and then the qualifiers against Congo and South Africa last month.
NFF president Amaju Pinnick has maintained a contract has not been agreed with Keshi contrary to media reports that the coach will now be paid a monthly salary of seven million Naira, a two million Naira raise from what he received in his initial contract, which ran out after the World Cup in Brazil.
“We have not come to an agreement yet (with Keshi),” he said.
The frosty relationship between the NFF and Keshi has worsened after the federation were ordered to re-instate the coach at the end of October.
And this latest revelation can only tear employer and employee further apart.

Tennis players struggling for honours during a national sprots event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State recently.