Super Eagles Yet To Be Paid Their Bonuses At AFCON, Team Takes Decision

Nigerian defender Kenneth Omeruo says the Super Eagles players have not yet received their incentives at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, despite President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria’s release of their competition funds.

The Kasimpasa defender refuted rumors that certain senior players are dissatisfied with Ahmed Musa, the team captain, saying that he is not speaking for them and that he has threatened to take their grievance to higher authorities.

“The report is a joke,” Omeruo told ESPN. Musa showed us at lunch and we laughed about it.

“We are focused on our game, believing that our money will be paid. This squad is not the one to fight over money, otherwise, you would have heard that we refused to go to training even before the tournament.”

To speed up the payments, the Nigerian Football Federation is collaborating closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria, according to General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi.

“The NFF is grateful to the CBN for the way and manner they have continued to expedite action on payment requests that we have sent to them with regards to this competition,” Sanusi told ESPN.

“We have not experienced any delays or complication of processes at the CBN this time, and we give kudos to them for their diligence and great sense of duty.”

ESPN reports that as part of the Eagles’ pre-tournament deal with the NFF, the players would get graduated qualification incentives for each round they advance to in addition to match-by-match bonuses that are also graduated based on the players’ performance.

They were previously solely paid on a match-by-match basis, however this is different. [CONTINUE READING HERE]