FIFA grants: Reps set to probe NFF

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The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to set up a special committee to investigate financial grants advanced to the Nigerian Football Federation by FIFA and the Confederation of African Football, totalling $25m.

The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance during Tuesday’s plenary, co-sponsored by Lagos lawmaker, Adedayo Adesola and his Rivers State counterpart, Felix Nwaeke.

Titled “Motion to sport further misuse of FIFA and CAF grants by Nigerian Football Federation,” Adesola noted that the mismanagement of grants by the global football governing body is largely responsible for the poor outings in recent times by the various national teams.

Only recently, former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, accused the NFF of stifling the growth of football in Nigeria, through the misappropriation of grants from FIFA and CAF, citing the questionable handling of $1m the NFF got from FIFA to prepare the Super Eagles for the 2002 World Cup. Punch